EXMH GPG question

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Thu Dec 5 10:45:00 EST 2002


Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> When I digitally sign a message, my choices are:
> none, clearsign, standard, and plus encrypt. 
> When I use standard setting, then entire message is encrypted (essentially 
> the same as plus encrypt.
> I'm using exmh 2.5. 
> I was wondering if anyone else using exmh has the same properties. 

It's not encrypted, it is just signed..  Anyone with PGP can read
the message.  "Standard Signature" just means "sign the message
and then use Ascii-Armor to protect the whole thing".

It's just a base-64 encoded copy of your plaintext message.

-derek, co-author of PGP.

-- 
       Derek Atkins
       Computer and Internet Security Consultant
       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com



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