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Using EnigMail with Thunderbird « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:49:38 +0000

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By: Where’d My PGP Key Go?

Where’d My PGP Key Go? — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:06:09 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:13:52 +0000

Dotan yes it can basically be published anywhere.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:06:15 +0000

As I understand it public keys can be transmitted in the clear, there is no need to encrypt them? For instance, if I want to let people send to me encrypted mail, I could publish my public key on my website?

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:30:34 +0000

Dotan that’s how public key encryption works. The main problem that you have is to exchange the keys in first place which is the requirement to be able to encrypt messages. It does also mean that all communication is unencrypted if public keys have not been exchanged.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:27:15 +0000

I see, thanks. That’s actually quite clever on the part of the devs.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:42:33 +0000

Dotan while I cannot answer all questions I can answer some. A sender can only encrypt messages if he got the public key of the recipient. This means that you can obviously only send encrypted messages to recipients who have a public key which means they need to have a compatible plugin or software installed.

By: What is email?

What is email? — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:29:20 +0000

How much harder will it be for the reciever to decrypt the messages? Will they have to install special software? Do Gmail and other online email clients support this? What about Outlook users? If they are in a corporate environment and cannot install plugins, can they still read the mail?