-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-07-08 at 10:10 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Years ago I used PGP, but I don't know its current status, since I switched to Linux. You should investigate it. Dunno if GPG has a windows program :-?
PGP is available for most operating systems and one commonly used with Linux is called Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG). However, as I mentioned in another note, an easier method may be to use X.509 certificates, which are supported by most e-mail apps and require no other software.
But not all: Alpine does not, for instance, dunno about mutt. I wonder about webmails like gmail :-? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKCS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME I know about PKCS7 and S/MIME aka PKCS7. I have a certificate, notarized as you say: there is a goverment agency here in Spain that handles them out for citizens to use in our dealings with the goverment, like tax payment. They also impose limitations on what you can use "their" certificates for: use them for this, that, but not for this that. Ie, they may have legal limitations depending on the issuer, they are not "free", as in freedom. But yes, they are easier to manage than pgp, specially for non techies/geeks. There is no web of trust to manage, for instance. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpU3bQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VmtQCfcua0zgjATb3EhL/XLP4+ftnH T4kAn25/UR9UfmZ/GAAH+gF3OTo3ujRG =GUpi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org