Re: PK-Encrypt-only

2005-12-01 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:33:07AM -0700, Kurt Fitzner wrote: > I am contemplating a change to my GnuPG Explorer Extension, but I need > some background information. > > I know that encrypting a file without signing it is commonly done with > symmetrical encryption. My question is, do people com

Re: --openpgp, MDC and similar flags

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > ... as you can see, MDC is set. Referring to > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2003-May/018442.html and > RFC2440 I assume that MDC is still not part of the standard. Why is it > activated in my key? (Of course this is a good t

Re: PK-Encrypt-only

2005-12-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:33:07 -0700, Kurt Fitzner said: > I know that encrypting a file without signing it is commonly done with > symmetrical encryption. My question is, do people commonly use GnuPG to > encrypt a file without signing it using PK-encryption? In email I use it when I have no acce