In conclusion SSL / TLS is good to secure the connection, e.g. between your mail client and your mailserver, and gpg is usefull to encrypt your message content no matter if connections are secured or not. Both are absolutely different tecniques.
Cheers, Chris Am 01.12.2013 um 03:29 schrieb Dane Trethowan <[email protected]>: > Hi! > > you probably know all this already but I thought what you said about SSL/TLS > and GPG was interesting so here's something from another System Administrator > I know which makes it sound that both systems can be used with great effect > together. > <snip> > SSL stands for secure sockets layer, it is a technology used to encrypt an > end to end connection between two machines. > > When you encrypt an email using pgp, its hidden from anyone who doesn't have > the appropriate decryption key. > When you connect to a website (or email server) using ssl, only that > connection is encrypted, if the original email is unencrypted, and sent on by > whatever server you delivered it to, its unencrypted for that part of the > journey as well as when it arrives at the recipiant. > > So, you would use pgp when you want to guarantee that an email can only be > decrypted by the recipiant. > You would use ssl (or tls these days) when you want a connection between you > and a remote machine to be secure from evesdropping by people along the way. > > > <snip> > On 30 Nov 2013, at 10:59 pm, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I’ve often thought about getting back into that but I’ve decide that SSL >> authentication certificates offer a better alternative for mail. Obviously, >> if you want file encryption that’s a different matter. I can see why PGP >> would be a better option there. 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