On 17 Jul 2011, at 16:26, Steven Wilson wrote: > Your MacGPG2 looks intriguing. If I understand encryption/decryption, the > receiver of my email needs the same key to decrypt my email that I used to > encrypt it. Yet, you do not mention that in anything that I read on your web > page.
That's because it's not the case. There are pairs of keys: a public key and a private key. You encrypt the message with someone's public key, which anyone can know, and then they decrypt it with the corresponding private key, which only they should know. > > Does the receiver of my email need to have MacGPG2 installed on their > computer? If they do, that will work only with users of Macs. What users of > PCs? As far as I know the format of GPG-encrypted mail messages is effectively standard, so they will be able to decrypt it with any GPG (or PGP) implementation. --tim _______________________________________________ gpgtools-users mailing list gpgtools-users@lists.gpgtools.org FAQ: http://www.gpgtools.org/faq.html Changes: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/listinfo/gpgtools-users Unsubscribe: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/options/gpgtools-users/arch...@mail-archive.com?unsub=Unsubscribe&unsubconfirm=1 This email sent to: arch...@mail-archive.com
