Bogey Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Hi all, This is a email I got lately. It kind of disturbing me, am afraid it has to be some sort of hack attempt? Mail comes from the ex-partner of my wife. He he is an "ethical hacker". I am curious on your responses... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA512Here was the message send to us-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----Version: APG v1.1.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kQUv-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I believe it's a security measure used to confirm that the e-mail was sent from the right person. I'm quite sure it's not an attempt to hack you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogey Posted January 4, 2015 Author Share Posted January 4, 2015 sounds plausible... but why does the code comes with it? some sort error in the traffic somewhere from there to here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Here's some information I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/digitally-signing-and-encrypting-messages I believe that the code is there in the e-mail so that you're able to manually verify that the message hasn't been altered or something like that. I'd have to do further investigation, but it's certainly nothing harmful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davej Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 If you read the links Ingolme has listed above you will see that it is a public-key encryption method that is intended to provide message integrity validation. If your friend sends you a PGP-encoded message then you can validate that it 1. is indeed from him, and 2. the message has not been modified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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