Difference between Signing and Encryption with OpenPGP

1. Overview

Let's distribute Signing and Encryption with OpenPGP

2. Purpose

• Preserve confidentiality and privacy
• To meet some business regulations of security
• To make sensitive data unreadable to unauthorized parites
• Data Integrity
  • Not altered from its original form
• Message AUthentication(Proof of Origin)
  • Ensuring message came from the purported sender
• Non-repudiation
  • That the sender cannot deny the authenticity of the message they sent and signed with OpenPGP

 

3. Process

3.1 Encrypting

3.2 Signing

4. References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

http://blogs.mdaemon.com/index.php/2018/05/29/encrypting-vs-signing-with-openpgp-whats-the-difference-2/