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I received an email like this above:
—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—–
Hash: SHA1
Because anyone can claim to be me. There’s no validation of the user
name or email address when someone posts a comment. While I do try to
remove imposters… Continue reading How to verify PGP signature with signing key using Enigmail in Thunderbird [migrated]
I know that rsa uses prime numbers but when i create a new key pair on my computer how does the program finds the prime numbers where they come from ?
I know that rsa uses prime numbers but when i create a new key pair on my computer how does the program finds the prime numbers where they come from ?
I have created a GPG key and uploaded it to pgp.mit.edu. Then I accidentally wiped the drive that contained both the key and the revocation certificate. So what to do now?
I found a possible answer here. But how would I do this?
And yes, t… Continue reading Lost GPG private key and revocation certificate
I’m looking to encrypt a gist file for an issue, and the provider has their public key accessible for issuers to use. I am trying to find a way to encrypt the file with the provider’s public PGP key so I can securely send a confidential is… Continue reading How to encrypt gist with someone else’s public key? [migrated]
I’ve been preparing for a CISSP exam and was reading about applied cryptography in regard to email.
It’s my understanding that the popular schemes (PGP,S/Mime) use a combination of asymmetric and symmetric cryptography. If I’m reading thin… Continue reading What usually happens to the symmetric (session) key after decrypting an email? Can the key be recovered if changing private keys?
I’m making an e-mail system/client. I’m trying to correctly detect incoming e-mails which can be replied to with PGP encryption. This means finding out their public PGP key. I currently do:
Parse the e-mail body for a PGP public key block… Continue reading What is the standard way, if any, to announce via e-mail that you have a public PGP key and what it is?
I’m looking for an IMAP proxy server (more of a reverse proxy, really) which automatically PGP-encrypts all mail. I run a dovecot IMAP server, and I want the IMAP client on my phone to connect to that proxy. I then want my phone to see all… Continue reading Looking for a PGP-encrypting IMAP proxy
I uploaded my master key’s public part to the keys.openpgp.org-keyserver. It has 4 UIDs set up (4 different e-mail addresses) and each of them are correct and valid e-mail addresses.
The keyserver sent a confirmation mail to all of the e-m… Continue reading keys.openpgp.org keyserver fails to send confirmation mail to an Outlook-address
The named hardware dongles (or at least several models of them) allow me to store PGP secret keys key.
Suppose I am using such a secret key to sign data (doesn’t matter what). As I understand the operation happens on the hardware itself an… Continue reading Conceptual question regarding signing with Yubikey/Solokey/Nitrokey using GnuPG