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drspewfy
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:02 pm    Post subject: Waht is for the gpg keys ?? Reply with quote

What is for the gpg keys ?
i see in some mails, that have a php key, and a weird characters,,
but i dont know for what are they for ???


thanks in advance!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

for encrypting email and files to send to the person, so they can decrypt it using their private key. Have a look at the gentoo gnupg guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml and at http://www.gnupg.org
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