-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There are essentially two different ways to use PGP with an e-mail message. First, you can encrypt a message for a specific recipient (or recipients). In order to do this you must have the public key of each person you want to send the message to. Second, you can sign a message with your private key to validate that the message came from you (not an imposter) and to validate that the message has not been altered since you composed it. You can also to a combination of both, which is valuable too.
So, if you want the message to be private and only viewed by specific recipients, you click the button for PGP encryption and select the public keys of the recipients from the list. If you just want the message to be validated as being sent by you but readable by anyone, you can click on the PGP signature button. The header you describe below is an example of what appears at the top of a PGP _signed_ message, like this one I send now. The PGP signature can be found at the bottom of the message text. Hope that helps. A good overview of PGP concepts can be found at: http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/ scotty - ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: PGP How To: Email Use > > > thanks to all that responded to my IPSec and PGP > issue. Next, I notice that I get messages with the > following: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > and then the message. I can't seem to set up PGP > so others without it installed can read it, yet it is still > encrypted (does that make sense?) What is the > correct way to set the email settings for PGP? > > thanks > dp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPE+vdcCRV5J9bej9EQLZQwCeJ+Vg20IsUCedkko1cimtmRNwxgcAn1aF j0VSqp8dxeTywoeztLwvFGP2 =PQ/B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
