konklone / privacy

Guides and support for communicating in private.
https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/sending-one-encrypted-email
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Let's not confused signed and encrypted email #2

Open npdoty opened 10 years ago

npdoty commented 10 years ago

I think the current text might imply that signed email is actually encrypted (such that your server can't read the contents, say) and we should keep those operations separate in our explanation.

The .asc attachment on this message is my digital signature. If you set up your email to use PGP (pretty good privacy), this signature (and yours) will let us encrypt our conversations so that we are the only ones who can read the contents. It's like sending email in an envelope rather than written on a postcard.

I've started some text that tries to make the distinction (e02eee39a40776a9f15654b7c272a6a66260d203). I think we may need to remove the above paragraph, or move it to a section that explains encryption. /cc @dphiffer