Re: About Crypto

Thanks for your response... It is much appreciated. :)

On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009 11:16:16 pm Werner Joss wrote:
> Am Dienstag 06 Januar 2009 18:07:44 schrieb Kishore:
> > I would like to sign mail and perhaps even encrypt some of my office mail
> > and so would like to learn a little. Of course, i am interested in this
> > from a user point of view. I would really appreciate anyone educating me
> > on this... maybe just point me to relevant web links!
>
> well, there is at least
> http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/kmail-pgpmime-howto.php
> which still describes kontact from kde 3.3 but many explanations there are
> still valid, software requirements are not, of course, for newer kmail/kde
> versions.
>
> > Clearly, kmail has support for these. so let me ask.
> >
> > 1) Can I use the same key that I generated for ssh access to my company
> > git hosting server? I would prefer to keep one key for all official work.
>
> not that I would know of - ssh uses different keys than gnupg (anyone
> correct me if I'm wrong)

I just made an attempt to create a new certificate and in the process 
discovered that it uses RSA or DSA just like ssh keys.

> > 3) What do the recipients of my mail need to do? I can help with
> > colleagues but probably not so with external people if it requires them
> > to perform something complex before they can read my mail. What would
> > they need to do?
>
> in short: anyone you want to send an encrypted mail to, will first have to
> send you his public (gnupg) key (or you grab it from a public keyserver).
> you can then use this to encrypt the message - the recipient can then
> decrypt it using his private key.
> same applies the other way round :)

Interesting... always wondered how this worked! :) Oh and it seems that you 
can only do encryption with rsa keys  and not dsa keys!

> > 4) How do commonly used clients like outlook and even web clients like
> > gmail deal with it?
>
> there are IMO free pgp plugins available for outlook, as for gmail, I have
> no idea.

OK.
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Cheers!
Kishore