Re: Questions from a newbie

2006-12-05 Thread Adam Gould
Hardeep Singh wrote: > 1. While creating the key, I noticed RSA is sign only. Does it mean an > RSA key cannot be used to encrypt? Why so - even RSA is now in public > domain I believe. PGP (the free version) also allows RSA keys. No, it does not mean that you *can't* use RSA to encrypt. You woul

Re: Questions from a newbie

2006-12-05 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Hardeep Singh wrote: > 1. While creating the key, I noticed RSA is sign only. Does it mean > an RSA key cannot be used to encrypt? No. I use a set of RSA keys to encrypt and sign data. All that it means is you need to create your set of encryption keys in a separate step from creating your signi

Questions from a newbie

2006-12-05 Thread Hardeep Singh
Hi All I need to travel a lot and send emails/proposals on the go. Mostly I just carry my docs on a pendrive, rarely also carrying a laptop. So even though I have known PGP for quite a long time and I tried my hand at it, also at thawte, I never took it seriously since PGP needs to be installed a