Encryption

[Peter Bowen]

Scott,

Uuencode is a text armoring mechanism... It's how pictures,  docs,  and 
programs are sent through email.  I just uuencoded the gpg data string.  
The better way is to use armor directly - it saves a step.  Uuencode can 
convert ANY binary to text than can be stored in a text field.  Note the 
it is an encoding and not an encryption algorithm.

Check out:
    http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/Uuencode.html
    
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213268,00.html
    http://www.ucc.ie/doc/other/uu.html  

-Peter

Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote:

> Peter:
>
> How does uuencoding work, compared with GnuPG encoding?
>
> References?
>
> Scott
>
>> I had the same problem myself... I uuencoded it.
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>> Eric Jensen wrote:
>>
>>> Working on some encryption schemes and running into a few humps.  We
>>> have a great GnuPG scheme for encrypting all of our backup files. 
>>> Really digging the public and private key scheme.  But now we are
>>
>>
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