Re: [DLC]GPG question

gotchya. I used gpg --output doc --decrypt file.asc

a certain passphrase was given to me. I now realize it's not exactly the
most helpful clue.

anyhow, this is a really cool puzzle. i'm not in the class, but, if I have
more time, I'll keep working on it.

-Sean

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:54 AM, John Kristoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:19:11PM -0500, Sean Neilan wrote:
> > So... what clued you in on the process of doing that?
>
> That's a good question, I think we'd all like to know that.
>
> > I did decrypt file.asc without applying the caesar crypt and got
> gibberish.
> > I assume you know someone?
>
> You didn't actually decrypt it then.  Doing that is not going to
> help.  You've at least figured out you have to decrypt using PGP
> (presumably with gnupg in your case).  How do you encrypt and decrypt
> a PGP message?  There are two basic methods.  Symmetric and assymetric
> crypto.  aka shared key and public key crypto respectively.  If its
> asymmetric crypto, you need to have a key to decrypt?  Do you have it?
> If not, then what?
>
> John
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