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- From: warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Subject: Re: PGP 2.0 help please
- In-Reply-To: bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu's message of 13 Dec 1992 05:42:40 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:01:05 GMT
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- In article <1geiggINN7tv@agate.berkeley.edu> bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho) writes:
-
- I realize that I can use somebody's public key and encrypt a message
- to him, but what if I am say the president of a corporation and
- wish to encrypt a sensitive memo to all managers. Would I have to
- encrypt the file however times I have managers, each to his or her
- own key, or could I create a "list" of recipients?
-
- PGP 2.0 does not have this functionality (It was one of the first
- things I noticed back in September). In fact, PGP 2.1, which I highly
- recommend you pick up, doesn't have it either. HOWEVER, PGP 2.2
- *WILL* have it. I don't know when 2.2 will be released, however I'm
- sure that it will be in that release.
-
- So, to answer your question, given PGP 2.0 or 2.1, you have the
- encrypt the file once for each recipient, instead of creating a single
- cryptofile that you can send to everyone. I hope this answers your
- question.
-
- I'm sorry if this is in the documentation, but I wasn't really able
- to elucidate it.
-
- No, You didn't miss anything.
-
- Thanks for any help.
-
- No problem!
-
- -derek
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- Derek Atkins -- MIT '93 -- Electrical Engineering
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