In Message-ID:<1eacd018acu3ni1vql5ntv8l7bfma81r1r@4ax.com>,
nopspam@nospam.com wrote:

>Take for instance any random post that has a PGP message included in
>it. How do I decrypt it, I tried to copy the PGP message block to my
>clipboard, searched the keyserver for the public key, imported that
>and next choose decrypt and verify clipboard. What happens then is it
>opens a file dialog window looking for a file called clipboard??? WHAT
>THE??? How do I decrypt it? Just started to use it so, just learning
>and taking my first babysteps so please go easy with the comments :-)

Short answer: Those are not messages, but signatures. Copy
the *entire* message to clipboard and then choose decrypt and
verify.

Longer answer: You can decrypt messages only when they're
encrypted with your own public key. PGP has another feature,
though, called "signing". Without going into details, if PGP
says the signature is good, the message is *exactly* as the
signer wrote it.

The reason PGP was prompting you for a file is that you
asked it to verify a signature without the file to which it was
attached.

BTW, it's generally a good idea to specify a message when
you're asking for help, rather than having us just randomly look
around to see if we can figure out which one(s) you're talking
about. For instance, the messageID in the first line of this
post uniquely identifies your message.

--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
Looking for a good MVS systems programmer position

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nopspam@nospam.com wrote:

> Take for instance any random post that has a PGP message included
> in it. How do I decrypt it, I tried to copy the PGP message block
> to my clipboard, searched the keyserver for the public key,
> imported that and next choose decrypt and verify clipboard. What
> happens then is it opens a file dialog window looking for a file
> called clipboard??? WHAT THE??? How do I decrypt it? Just started
> to use it so, just learning and taking my first babysteps so please
> go easy with the comments :-)


Open the post it in its own window, then click on your PGP tray
icon and select "Current Window/Decyrpt and Verify"

Is that what you meant. Try it on this sig and see how you get on
lol.

Martin

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Hello Martin,

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 you wrote in

M> Open the post it in its own window, then click on your PGP tray
M> icon and select "Current Window/Decyrpt and Verify"

M> Is that what you meant. Try it on this sig and see how you get on

Came up as bad sig here.

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