I was bumping around this enigmail thing and created a key. But I don't think I'm able to use it right now. Do I have to upload this to some public server or something? What I really wanted to be able to do is create signed email first and then look into doing encrypted email. But for encription is a public server really necessary? I thought I could just ship the recipient the public key.
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 7:47 am, Tom Allison wrote:
But for encription is a public server really necessary? I thought I could just ship the recipient the public key.
Public-private key crypto. If you send your public key to your recipient, then someone could intercept it and replace it with their public key. What happens then? He can start sending your recipient messages pretending to be you. Why do you need a public key server? It allows distribution of public keys without that particular problem (given that you trust the key server). Obviously a signed public key would be better and physically handing your recipient the key would be even better. HTH Jon -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) Linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon
Jonathan Lim wrote:
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 7:47 am, Tom Allison wrote:
But for encription is a public server really necessary? I thought I could just ship the recipient the public key.
Public-private key crypto.
If you send your public key to your recipient, then someone could intercept it and replace it with their public key. What happens then? He can start sending your recipient messages pretending to be you.
Why do you need a public key server? It allows distribution of public keys without that particular problem (given that you trust the key server). Obviously a signed public key would be better and physically handing your recipient the key would be even better.
HTH Jon
Actually, I was planning on passing the key via ssh.
But that's irrelevant now.
I can't get enigmail to do anything right now.
How do I set this up? I've created a passkey with a password, but
everytime I enter the password I get a mountain of errors
Error - bad passphrase
gpg command line and output:
/usr/bin/gpg --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --clearsign -u
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