2008/7/16 Puneet Lakhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1) Why dont services like Gmail understand PGP encrypted messages and > decrypt them? Has this got something to do with export regulations on > encyrption software?
For encrypting/decrypting messages you need access to the reciever's public key too. You can do this if you are using a pop/imap client on your desktop to retrieve emails from gmail. > 2) If i send a PGP encrypted message to the mailing list with my public key > in the -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY > BLOCK----- blocks is it ok? Will a user using gmail/yahoomail be able to > read my messages? If yes then how does it happen? Does the mailing list > server do the decryption? If yes, does that mean I receive clear text mails > even though someone wanted to send an encrypted message? Are you confused between encrypted emails and digitally signed emails? Digitally signed mails can be sent to anybody. To verify the message integrity, receivers need access to your public key - but they can still read your emails without your keys. > My main reason for this newly accquired paranoia about email privacy is that > I dont want my email admin to be reading my mails, even if they are to the > mailing list. Is PGP the right thing for this? PGP is a good solution for end-to-end encryption. If you send encrypted mails to the list, then how would the thousands of list readers be able to decrypt the message? And what about the list archives? Anurag -- -- Anurag <0xB20A82C1> http://web.gnuer.org/blog/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
