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Subj: Re: How do you use it ?
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From: VK2AAB@VK2AAB.SYD.NSW.AUS.OC
To : PGP@WW
I had a play around with it some years ago.
It is quite legal here to use as a guarentee of signature and message content.
I remember was a real controversy about it on packet.
I really can't see why the PGP signature was banned in the UK because all it
does is guarentee the signature and message contents which were in plain tex!
Our WICEN emergency network used it for some tests in case we had to transmit
casualty lists etc. Another possible use was the transmission of information
the emergency management people might want to keep a lid on.
If I remember correctly I had a BAT file read the message ran PGP and produced
the encrypted message for transmission. It all worked flawlessly.
You have two keys, a private key and a public key. If you want to exchange and
encrpyted message you first exchange the public keys with the other station.
Generate the encrpyted message with both his public and your private key.
Send the message and he decrypts it with your public key and his private key.
The keys can be 1024 bits long so for all practical purposes it is
unbreakable.
73 Barry VK2AAB
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