From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64102 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Is this a typo in Gnus info? Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:34:22 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165937725 32049 80.91.229.10 (12 Dec 2006 15:35:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12625@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 12 16:35:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gu9f6-0003Jo-AN for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:35:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gu9ev-0003TD-2g; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:35:09 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gu9et-0003St-Kw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:35:07 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gu9eq-0002NL-Ct for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:35:07 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Gu9ep-0003XJ-00 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:35:03 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gu9eY-0003Xu-EU for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:34:46 +0100 Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:34:46 +0100 Original-Received: from sdl.web by sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:34:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAC0AAAAtCAIAAAC1eHXNAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwY AAAAB3RJTUUH1gsWAiw4GKZrngAAAaVJREFUWMPtWDGOxCAMTJD/s9F9BCqae8K9556wTarwkVV+ xBUgCxFizBKzKc5KsckiMdjjwfbsvZ9kbDEm+7Jv2/Hf8BEmMSvuemaCOI57E2hADsRuHbVg1eI4 EES22YfisuqUInSMlBAtgieq9BT0B+EDwtR0D/vHIY3j5/tFvA71B+7NBCGSL7/PL0QQfnNsxvuW n+sSqa7Qge/lvQhPPwKlXH/s25YGqKmG6BFfoBcNI41KSc48QXiyA3XGFJq8F+9SYy73luIIzmKM dIBUk+rJGQRyFKEsxlTzJVvzts3H/mWksOIZ7nLvt+WLnMMg8LSqH9LBAsxbvpShh5CkqCjF3jV7 LZ6KyhdCyhAEQkFZSxU2VTxa94Cp6z1xQRXO3HNZXcgEl/ryTG+gNdGrgoYhqLLnxjqW8nRYVZZu pC7sUXvaYDi7b6tQYtStC619J/S5Z04X5i3ZnOOsvB3aR2XjKH5VoCRALKuOwbKOmX0C86BVh0Ka Pxzj1qcV5lsXVYscEAryI15g1iECejbHqj9ar/5q/9dmXsweWvvn9NCas/gPmFCS6kuMMdAAAAAA SUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vVr317gaWOFFT6MLGDSotEVjRvw= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64102 Archived-At: * [2006.12.12 08:51 +0100] Franz Häuslschmid wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Leo writes: > >> Software version : 5.11 in Emacs 22/23. >> >> ,----[ (info "(message)Security") ] >> | To be able to send encrypted mail, a personal certificate is not >> | required. Message (MML) need a certificate for the person to whom you >> | wish to communicate with though. You're asked for this when you type >> | `C-c C-m c s'. >> `---- >> >> 'Is required' or 'is not required'? From the context, the former seems >> correct. > > In my view: is not required. For sending encrypted mail you > really need just the public key of the receiver. Understood. Thanks. > However, the receiver will not be able to verify, whether the sender > is the person he claims to be. For this, the sender needs to > encrypt Should s/encrypt/sign/, right? > the message with his private key, the receiver then is able to > verify the origin of the message using the sender's public key > (which the receiver must trust). > > I hope this made it somehow clear, > Franz It helped. Thanks, Franz. -- Leo (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)