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On 27 Apr, 2013, at 11:36 pm, Martijn Grooten wrote:
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Daniel Robinson wrote:what is GPG PGP stuff all about?It is about encryption. Of, among other things, email. Encryption is good, and important. So is locking your door. If the number of people that need to be able to open that door is rather big (because, for instance, it's the door to a shop), you'll end up hanging the key to the door next to it, to keep it usable. So you may as well not have put the lock there in the first place. Same with encryption really. If the whole list is able to read the email, then it's so widely spread, there's no point in encryption.
Hear hear.Couple of decent explanations of public-key crypto (beware of line breaks):
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs513/2000sp/L26.html https://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/secure-communication-with-public-key-encryption/30504 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJrICB_HvuI -- Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq