Why do we use a different key to sign than to encrypt

Not GPG specific, but I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of some resources that explain why we use different keys to sign and encrypt (for cases where the same key _could_ do both e.g. RSA). I cant seem to pick anything up on google. Thanks -- Guy Halford-Thompson

Re: Why do we use a different key to sign than to encrypt

Thanks for the list of resources G On 1 March 2011 14:41, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Guy Halford-Thompson g...@cach.me wrote: Not GPG specific, but I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of some resources that explain why we

Security of the gpg private keyring?

-hackers cracking the keys here here... just things like metadata associated with the keys... email addresses, who has signed them, expiry date etc... Ty -- Guy Halford-Thompson - http://www.cach.me/blog ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: Security of the gpg private keyring?

Thanks for the help, didnt really occur to me how much info is available in the public keyring, guess you cant do much about it tho. -- Guy Halford-Thompson - http://www.cach.me/blog ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http