Re: GnuPG/OpenPGP primer?

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:21:11AM -0400, Don Levey wrote: 
> Dan Ritter wrote: 
> >The properties of the classic public key systems are as 
> >follows: 
> > 
> >Take a message and encrypt it with your private key: Now anyone 
> >can decrypt it with your public key and assure themselves it 
> >came from you, or at least someone with your private key. 
> 
> If I understand it correctly, I could conceivably take a message and NOT 
>  encrypt it, but has it in some was with my key such that anyone can 
> read it, and verify against my public key that the message came from me 
> and is unaltered.  Have I got that right?