Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread Denise Schmid
Thanks all for your help. Now, the story gets even more funny: They claim to have used PGP split-key, then encrypted the files with a randomized key, then encrypted the key with individual keys. So far so bad. But now comes the best: They claim that, because one of the managers wasn't able to

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread Denise Schmid
Is this a movie? lol... worse: it is reality. I hope I'll be able to post the docs one day soon... -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-27 Thread Denise Schmid
Hello list, first of all: Sorry if my question reaches the wrong list, but I have a question someone on this list may probably answer easily. If a company has shared keys: How does encryption work then? Are several owners of a share needed to encrypt data? I just try to find out how it works

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-27 Thread Denise Schmid
It depends on what you mean by a shared key. There is just giving a copy of the key to multiple people (in which case any one of them can use it), or there are various key splitting algorithms where a key is broken into a number of pieces, and a specified subset of those pieces can come