Thanks for the explanations, they are rather more indepth than I was expecting for an idle curiosity.
Thanks for the verbosity and the need for clarification, they are always appreciated. As with many things, it is better to cut too long and adjust than to start short and really mess up. I did figure that the access control wasn't built into the scheme and would take an external ACL implementation to do something like this. In retrospect, I probably did have a slightly distorted impression of PKI, but the core I did understand. To all, thanks for the responses, they were greatly interesting. So, one final question: I would like to know more about encryption, the underlying infrastructures, etc. What would be, in the lists recommendation, a good place to start? Thanks for any help again, Eldowan
