2009/1/16 Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:21:47 -0500<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">Marc Ferguson <<a href="mailto:marcferguson@gmail.com">marcferguson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> I wanna jump on the PGP/GPG wagon, but I'm a bit confused by<br>
> <a href="http://www.pgpi.com" target="_blank">www.pgpi.com</a>'s web site. For one why does Windows and MAC get the<br>
> latest version, 8, which is 2 cycles ahead of UNIX!?<br>
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</div>Not sure what their reason is, but if you're going to be using OpenPGP<br>
on a UNIX (or UNIX-like) system, I'd recommend using GnuPG. It's<br>
stable (and has been for some time now).<br>
<br>
If you use a GNOME-based system, getting started with it is pretty<br>
easy. You can use Seahorse, a GNOME program which helps you to manage<br>
your keys, to create your first GnuPG key, upload your public key to<br>
the keyservers, and download other people's keys from the keyservers.<br>
<br>
The next thing to do, then, is to configure your email client of choice<br>
to use GnuPG. The setup for that is client dependent, but I know that<br>
at least Evolution, Claws Mail, and Mutt can work with it. All three<br>
of those should be available on most popular distributions (and are for<br>
sure on Ubuntu).<br>
<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>Awesome, thanks a lot fellas. I'm using GNOME and my email client is Evolution. I'll certain try your suggestions. Thanks. Is there a need for a "howto" article or I'm guessing it's pretty straight forward?<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Marc F.<br><br><a href="http://www.fergytech.com">www.fergytech.com</a><br>Registered Linux User: #410978<br><br>"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!" -Marc F.<br>