Encrypting an e-mail to a Hushmail user

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Wed Aug 3 22:56:29 CEST 2005


On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:28:17PM -0500, JB wrote:
> 
>   Hi gang,
> 
>   Yesterday I tried valiantly to get a Hushmail user to install GPG or PGP 
> (6.5.8...still free and a good version) on his M$ system, but he said it was 
> too hard to work and Hushmail was nice and easy.
>   Anyway, after a few tries of trying to upload my public key to the Hush 
> server, I figured out I had to upload without my picture...finally it took my 
> key.
>   Now that I have my friends key on my keyring and have signed it, I find I 
> get an 'error' every time I try to encrypt a message to him. I have a feeling 
> it's because I'm using my key and it still has the photo, but I can't figure 
> out how to sign the e-mail to him *without* using the photo/attribute(s) in 
> my key.
>   Anyone care to give me a quick hand with this? It'd sure be appreciated. 
> (Now if I can just get him to use GPG for Windows thing would be great!)

I'm afraid that nobody will be able to help you unless you post
something more useful than "I get an 'error'"

David



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