On Sunday 03 July 2005 00:45, James Knott wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 03 July 2005 00:02, James Knott wrote:
Mozilla and many other mail programs also support S/MIME encryption and signature. You can get a free digital certificate from www.thawte.com/email.
Doesn't encrypting using a key someone else created defeat the purpose of it? The private keys should be kept private
The only one who'd have the private key is the person who generated it.
Well, that's not exactly a universal truth. It depends
It's merely certified by Thawte.
Fair enough, I thought they gave you the key as well. I hadn't looked at it before
However the public key can be distributed far and wide. So if I want to send you an encrypted e-mail, I'd encrypt with your public key.
Yeah, I was aware