Re: [Nolug] GPG test

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:10:10 -0600
  Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:
> 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

Firefox 1.0 straight from the download reads it transparently.
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