decipher secret keyring

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Fri Apr 18 08:26:02 2003


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On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:09:40AM +0200, Francesco Biacca wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to the list so first of all, I wanna excuse if I'm posting something
> known ... To be honest, I've read another thread some months ago in which
> you spoke about this theme, but I'd like to know more.
> 
> I'm trying to develop a webmail, using java and jsp technology, which would
> be able to send ciphered mail without using gpg (The idea was born while I
> was outside without my notebook and I had to send a mail ciphered with my
> gpg key).
> 
> So I need to know how (and if) is possible to decipher a secret keyring;
> otherwise it's impossibile to cipher/decipher mail for me. I know that you
> could be bored about this, so you can also give me some url or docs to solve
> this problem.

Probably the best thing for you to read is RFC-2440.  In particular,
see the section for "Secret Key Encryption", as well as "Secret Key
Packet".

David
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