Hello Roelof, Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 3:18:45 PM, you wrote:
RO> Hallo Cristina, RO> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:14:38 +0100GMT (28-9-2004, 15:14 +0200, where I RO> live), you wrote: CR>> Some of the messages I receive have a yellow circle with a checkmark. RO> Those are smileys, they're sent along to show that the sender is in a RO> good mood. :pulling-leg: CR>> What does that mean exactly? Does it have anything to do with securely CR>> signing your messages? RO> It has to do with digitally signing your message and thus showing that RO> you sent the message and that it wasn't tampered with on the way to RO> the recipient. CR>> How do I do that? RO> You get a certificate by Thawte (or some others) or you create a PGP RO> key (GPG is compatible with that) and you sign your message. RO> Both work with a public and a private key. You sign with the private RO> key and the signature is checked with the public key. RO> The main differences between the two types are that with certificates RO> you send the public part along with every signed message and with PGP RO> the public keys can be requested from the owner or from a key-server. RO> With certificates the signing is done by the mail client, with PGP RO> it's done with that PGP/GPG variety that you've got installed. RO> Messages signed with a certificate are substantially bigger than the RO> same message PGP signed. RO> With PGP you've got two ways of signing messages, you can either sign RO> in the text (that's when you find messages starting with RO> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- RO> Hash: SHA1 and ending with some odd codes) or with the signature as RO> attachment, the latter looks a lot better, but unfortunately not all RO> mail clients support PGP/MIME (TB does support it) RO> Most signed messages on this list are PGP signed, it's been quite a RO> while that I've seen a MIME signed message and that's not only on this RO> list, but that might just be the kind people I hang around with. Ok, but the yellow circle doesn't appear consistently (I know there are mood swings lol ). I mean, this message you sent has a TXT file attached as you mentioned, but no yellow circle. -- Best regards, Cristina in Lisbon, Portugal :flag-portugal: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The BAT! 3.0.0.19 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
