I sent this a while ago in case anybody else wants to read it, but accidentally only to Don. On Jan 28, 2016 7:42 AM, "Schlacta, Christ" <aarc...@aarcane.org> wrote:
> Unofficially, but functionality and contextually correct.. A cryptographic > signature is a cryptographically strong hash of a message that has been > encrypted from an agent's private key to its public key such that anybody > with the public key can verify the message, yet nobody except the agent > with the private key could have generated said signature. > The function is both to verify that the sender specified in the message is > the one who sent it, and that the message is exactly and only the message > the sender sent. > On Jan 27, 2016 7:01 PM, "Don Saklad" <dsak...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> What's the contextual definition of the term?... signature >> as this term is used for GNUpg >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnupg-users mailing list >> Gnupg-users@gnupg.org >> http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users >> >
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