Re: Signing and symmetrically encrypting files

2016-09-17 Thread Arbiel (gmx)
Hi Bernhard I eventually changed my mind as I have'nt found out how to extract the source document from a signed one. So I decided to procede with detached signatures applied, as you suggest, on the source documents and not on the crypted ones. Regarding asymmetric versus symmetric cryptography,

Re: Signing and symmetrically encrypting files

2016-09-15 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Hi Arbiel, Am Mittwoch 14 September 2016 17:28:59 schrieb Arbiel (gmx): > Asymmetric encryption requires the recipients to use my public key to > get access the documents, whereas symmetric encryption only requires > them to key in the encryption key. for decryption, only the private key of the

Re: Signing and symmetrically encrypting files

2016-09-14 Thread Arbiel (gmx)
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Re: Signing and symmetrically encrypting files

2016-09-14 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Am Dienstag 13 September 2016 18:02:04 schrieb Arbiel Perlacremaz: > I intend to define a specific password for each one of the groups to > symmetrically encrypt the documents depending on which group they are > dedicated to. Wouldn't it make more sense to use asymmetric encryption to the groups