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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, dan moylan wrote: >John Abreau wrote: >> I'm also curious how many of us actually use PGP or GnuPG. > >i for one have never had occasion to use either, and only vaguely >understand what would occasion its necessity. For an example from work, we take information from a web form. The user enters their credit card number in the HTML form. The server is running SSL (https://), so the number is sent encrypted to our web server. The web server unencrypts it for a CGI script (or mod_perl), which then takes the credit card and other form information and encrypts with GNUPG, and mails it to a remote credit card handler. We'd exchanged public keys, so only they can decrypt the encrypted information. - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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