From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 19 17:50:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from wizard.teksupport.net.au (wizard.teksupport.net.au [203.17.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042E237B7FB for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:50:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robseco@wizard.teksupport.net.au) Received: from warlock.teksupport.net.au (warlock.teksupport.net.au [203.26.69.3]) by wizard.teksupport.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA20794 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:50:22 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <00f601bfaa61$e4caaa60$03451acb@teksupport.net.au> From: "Rob Secombe" To: "FreeBSD-ISP" References: Subject: Re: credit card handling. Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:46:40 +1000 Organization: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Correct ! You need to encrypt your message (ie credit card transaction) with the recipient's, in this case, the merchant/vendor's public key. The recipient then uses their private key to decrypt the message. Rob. ----- Original Message ----- From: Colin Campbell To: Jim Flowers Cc: Matt Heckaman ; FreeBSD-ISP Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 9:13 AM Subject: Re: credit card handling. > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Jim Flowers wrote: > > > Just install the pgp port and read the documentation. From what I recall > > you pipe your email output to pgpe and from their to sendmail having sent > > the public key to the recipent machine previously. > > Isn't this round the wrong way? By encrypting with your private key anyone > with access to your public key can decrypt it. Would it no be better to > use the public key of the recipient so that only they can decrypt the > message? > > My understanding of PKI is: > > - use your private key for signing things to prove who you are. Anyone can > use your public key to verify the identity of the sender. > - use the recipient's public key for encryption since only they can > decrypt the message > > Colin > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message