Hello, On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 17 Jul 2009 9:49:23 am Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > 1. You can sign documents, programs, e-mails etc. that you send out > > using your signing key. People who have access to your public key > > can verify such signatures. > > 2. People can encrypt documents which they want to send to you in > > private and only you (or other intended recipients) can decrypt them. > > 3. You can also encrypt documents for your own safe keeping. > > 4. You can sign other people's keys after verifying their authenticity. > > 5. If you have other people's public encryption key, you can encrypt > > documents which you want to send to them in private.
> 6. it makes you look like a geek Actually, you cannot achieve true geek-dom without a GPG/PGP key! Most large projects like the kernel, apache, X and the larger distributions _need_ digital signatures on significant contributions (i.e. anyting other than easily verified small patches). Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
