Re: [cobalt-users] Secure E-mail

[James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:54 2/02/2000 , Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:

> James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > >Thanks, I have been having trouble with PGP. Does anybody know how to 
> sign a
> > >form with PGP, instead of encrypting it?
>
> > pgpe -s
>
> That's the ordinary PGP command; they're asking for the webbased one.

Well, I'm sure there's a nifty API to
use from Perl (etc), but I haven't explored that.

For my secure mail solution, I simply executed
the ordinary PGP files, telling them what to do.
This was very easy from my Perl script.

Keep it simple, and all that.

> > You are aware that this will not protect
> > the message, it will only prove who sent
> > the message?
>
> Not only will it prove who sent the message (actually: which keyholder
> sent the message) - but it will also guarantee the integrity of the
> message. I.e. it can't be tampered with, without breaking the
> signature.

True enough.

J


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