Hi,
...
J> I imported the PGP-key and added the forms. Now this may sound stupid, but
J> I still have no idea how to use them. I see them in the submission forms
J> menu window, but all I can do with them is delete them from there again...
J> Am I doing something wrong?
from a mail to this list I wrote in January 1999:
Example: you want to provide the service "wish list".
So we declare you the server ;-)
The server has to write a form, put it in a TB mail and sign it
with PGP. He then sends this mail containing the signed form to
all clients (all those subscribers of this list willing to add
to your wish list).
Each client has to fire up TB, receive this mail, check the
digital signature (using your PGP key) and then store the
form in a file with a .TBC extension, e.g. TBWISH.TBC.
The client now adds this form to his list of submission forms.
(This is where we do not succeed, so the following is
what I think how it should work)
Now the client (e.g. me) wants to send you an entry for the
wish list. To do that I start TB and "call" your form
TBWISH.TBC. TB presents me an input window (formatted according
to your form specification) to enter my wishes and, when I press
OK, sends my input to you in a special formatted mail signed
with my PGP key.
You, the server, receive this mail, verify my digital signature
and handle the data. Because the data was automatically
formatted by the client's (my) TB, you can easily write a
program
to process the data (i.e. add my wishes to the wish list).
Because PGP was used
- I knew that this form really comes from you and not for
example
from MS trying to steel our good ideas ;-)
- you know that the wish real was from me and can send me the
donation for my great ideas :-)
Does this make things clearer? Now we only have to make it work
;-)
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