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Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Digital Signatures

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Linux Journal; By Ankur Kothiwal 		Mail this story
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If you have sent any plaintext confidential emails to someone (most likely you did), have you ever questioned yourself about the mail being tampered with or read by anyone during transit? If not, you should! Any unencrypted email is like a postcard. It can be seen by anyone (crackers/security hackers, corporations, governments, or anyone with the required skills), during its transit.

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