On 02/01/16, Moderator pondered and said...
 
 Mo>   1. The purpose of this echo is to provide a place to discuss
 Mo>      public-keys for data privacy within FidoNet and elsewhere. We also
 Mo>      consider electronic signature possibilities using public-keys and
 Mo>      discuss data and software encryption and the various schemes and
 Mo>      programs that produce them.

Would like to restart that conversation. :)

 Mo>   5. No Private flagged messages in Echomail! Encrypted traffic using
 Mo>      public-keys is permitted for the exercise so long as it is
 Mo>      on-topic. Don't send person-specific encrypted traffic. Such
 Mo>      specific traffic belongs in direct Netmail. Encrypted traffic
 Mo>      should be in the form of ASCII-armored or personal key encrypted
 Mo>      messages that can be read by anyone with PGP 2.6+ and your
 Mo>      public-key. Include your public-key in a separate message before
 Mo>      sending such test messages in case the other end doesn't have it
 Mo>      or make them aware of how to get it from your system. If you just
 Mo>      want to post your public-key, use PKEY_DROP Echo.

Walk me through this Mark, I'm just learning about public/private keys and
getting my head around all of this.

So I have installed a gpg4win bundle on my pc and have created a public key
which I can post here and you (or others) can then use to encrypt a message
to send to me - right?

But if I were to post and encrypted message here it would be of no use to
anyone unless I had encrypted it using someone elses public key (so they
could unlock it) - right?

Best, Paul

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