Pretty Good Privacy

Terms

Detached signature

Electronic Mail

Multipurpose4 Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

Pretty Good Privacy

Radix 64

Session Key

S/MIME

Trust

ZIP

Review Questions

15.1 What are the five principal service provided by PGP?

15.2 What is the utility of a detached signature?

15.3 Why does PGP generate a sigature before applying compression?

15.4 What is R64 conversion?

15.5 Why is R64 conversion useful for an e-mail application?

15.6 Why is the segmentation and reassembly function in PGP needed?

15.7 How does PGP use the comcept of trust?

15.8 What is RFC 822?

15.9 What is MIME?

15.10 What is S/MIME?

Csce877Ch15Notes (last edited 2005-12-05 02:56:12 by yakko)