Re: [Nolug] GPG test

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 1:10 am, Jerry spake:
> Bro. Kelly,
>
> I'm a newbie to NOLUG...somewhat of a *lurker*
>
> I checked this email using Outlook 2003 running on Windoze XP Pro SP2
>
>> Y'all,
>>
>> If anyone sees a problem with the signature of this email, please let me
>> know.
>>

Ok, quick tutorial:

Email is sent in plain-text, and no one can really be sure of the authenticity
of the message (perhaps it's spoofed, or has been tampered with, etc.). PGP
(Pretty Good Privacy) enables you to SIGN and possibly ENCRYPT your outgoing
mail. Someone can be reasonably sure that mail that you signed before you
sent it is indeed authentic if the digital signature checks out.
Incidentally, digital sigs have been legally accepted in the US for the last
few years... a digital signature can be taken to be equivalent to a literal
hand signature on regular paper.

Anyhow, there are various implementations of PGP. The one we generally use is
GPG, as it is free software and is generally free of bugs, etc. I think
Mozilla/Firefox uses a plugin to do PGP, but I've never used it.

You need a PGP-capable mail client to send signed or encrypted mail, and to
receive and successfully verify signed mail, and decrypt it if it's been
encrypted.

Is there a setting on Lookout 2003 that lets you do PGP? Maybe someone else
can shed light on that.

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
GPG key fingerprint = 8F11 D859 81A6 DE8C 5429  4A07 7146 1AFD 5C41 161E
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous."
 --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL

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