Re: [ilugd] PGP and mailing lists

2008-07-20 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Secure List Server[1], based on GNU Mailman, provides OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption support for mailing list. Following is an excerpt from site: - 88 A post will be distributed only if the PGP (or S/MIME) signature on the post is from

[ilugd] PGP and mailing lists

2008-07-16 Thread Puneet Lakhina
Hi, I recently installed on pgp4win on my windows machine to encyrpt and decrypt my emails. Since Im new to this stuff I have a couple of questions: 1) Why dont services like Gmail understand PGP encrypted messages and decrypt them? Has this got something to do with export regulations on

Re: [ilugd] PGP and mailing lists

2008-07-16 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2008, Puneet Lakhina wrote: 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? Because the mail service does not have your PGP private key, which is needed for

Re: [ilugd] PGP and mailing lists

2008-07-16 Thread pj
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2008, Puneet Lakhina wrote: 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? Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because the mail service does not

Re: [ilugd] PGP and mailing lists

2008-07-16 Thread Anurag
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

Re: [ilugd] PGP and mailing lists

2008-07-16 Thread Parthan SR
Puneet Lakhina wrote: 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? If you want people be not able to read your mails, then why send one

Re: [ilugd] PGP and mailing lists

2008-07-16 Thread Puneet Lakhina
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 17:03, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Puneet Lakhina wrote: 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?