Encrypting vs. signing with OpenPGP. What's the difference?

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Brad Wyro thoughts on encryption versus signing with OpenPGP. OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. In the article author helps to answer following question: how can you ensure confidential data transmitted via email is kept private?

Encryption is used to make business sensitive data unreadable to unauthorized parties.

Businesses need to protect sensitive data and preserve confidentiality and privacy. Whether you work in healthcare, finance, legal, HR or education, chances are you’re familiar with the terms GDPR, HIPAA or FERPA (among others).

In addition to data privacy, businesses may need to ensure that a message was not altered during transit, and that it actually came from the purported sender. This is accomplished with message signing.

Read more in the article to learn what is the difference. Explanation charts also available. Nice!

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