Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread Nick Andriash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 12, 2001, at 4:25:31 AM, A Curtis Martin wrote: > AFAIK, you only need the senders public key to verify their signatures. > However, to decrypt an encrypted message to you, you only need your > private key to decrypt it. The messages encryptio

Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread Nick Andriash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 11, 2001, at 11:56:22 PM, Silviu Cojocaru wrote: > It seems that in order for me to encrypt the messages I send to > someone, with PGP, I need his/her public key, is this true ? Correct. Contained within that Public Key are all the User Pre

Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread Thomas
Hello Allie, On Sat, 12 May 2001 06:25:31 -0500 GMT (12/05/2001, 19:25 +0800 GMT), A Curtis Martin wrote: T>> Would she? I think you do need the sender's public key to drecypt a T>> message. Maybe I'm wrong about this? ACM> AFAIK, you only need the senders public key to verify their signatures.

Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread A Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 12 May 2001 18:42:34 +0800, Thomas contributed this to our collective wisdom: GE>> Even if B doews not have the senders public key, in our example pKa, GE>> she would be able to decrypt the message. She wouldn't be able to GE>> verify the sig

Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread Thomas
Hello Gerd, On Sat, 12 May 2001 11:03:49 +0200 GMT (12/05/2001, 17:03 +0800 GMT), Gerd Ewald wrote: GE> Even if B doews not have the senders public key, in our example pKa, GE> she would be able to decrypt the message. She wouldn't be able to GE> verify the signature but she could reveal the pla

Re[2]: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread David Elliott
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Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread Dierk Haasis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello David! On Saturday, May 12, 2001 at 9:18:02 AM you wrote: > No. You can encrypt the message to as many keys as you like the minimum is > one i.e. the recipient. However this is a bit silly as once encrypted you

Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread Gerd Ewald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Thomas ! On Sat, 12 May 2001 16:38:41 +0800 GMT your local time, which was 12.05.2001, 10:38 (GMT+0200) where I live, you wrote: >>> And in order for that someone to read the encrypted message I >>> sent to him/her, that user must have *my*

Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread Thomas
Hello Gerd, On Sat, 12 May 2001 09:50:25 +0200 GMT (12/05/2001, 15:50 +0800 GMT), Gerd Ewald wrote: >> And in order for that someone to read the encrypted message I >> sent to him/her, that user must have *my* public key right ? GE> No, the recipients needs his/her secret key to decrypt the me

Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread Gerd Ewald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Silviu Cojocaru ! On Sat, 12 May 2001 09:56:22 +0300 GMT your local time, which was 12.05.2001, 08:56 (GMT+0200) where I live, you wrote: > It seems that in order for me to encrypt the messages I send > to someone, with PGP, I need his/her

Re: PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-12 Thread David Elliott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Silviu On 12 May 2001 at 09:56:22 +0300 (which was 07:56 where I live) Silviu Cojocaru rearranged electrons to get > It seems that in order for me to encrypt the messages I send to someone, > with PGP, I need his/her public key, is this true ?

PGP question regarding encrypting messages

2001-05-11 Thread Silviu Cojocaru
It seems that in order for me to encrypt the messages I send to someone, with PGP, I need his/her public key, is this true ? And in order for that someone to read the encrypted message I sent to him/her, that user must have *my* public key right ? -- If Bill Gates had a dime for eve