pgp talk on line now

[Rodney Thayer]

It means you can take my signed message, together with a copy of my public
key (which you can get off my web site for example) and use PGP to confirm
that I really generated the message you have in your hands.

At 12:56 PM 9/21/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Rodney wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>...clear text... 
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>...standard sequence of gobbledygook...
>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>Rodney, during your talk, one thing I didn't catch was the meaning of
>PGP "signed" messages like this one.  For those of us who haven't yet
>gotten with the '90s variant of email, can you describe here the
>implication of PGP-signed clear-text messages?
>
>-rich
>
>

               Rodney Thayer <rodney at sabletech.com>       +1 617 332 7292
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