[ale] How Do I Do This PGP/GPG Thing?

[Marc Ferguson]

2009/1/16 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:21:47 -0500
> Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I wanna jump on the PGP/GPG wagon, but I'm a bit confused by
> > www.pgpi.com's web site.  For one why does Windows and MAC get the
> > latest version, 8, which is 2 cycles ahead of UNIX!?
>
> Not sure what their reason is, but if you're going to be using OpenPGP
> on a UNIX (or UNIX-like) system, I'd recommend using GnuPG.  It's
> stable (and has been for some time now).
>
> If you use a GNOME-based system, getting started with it is pretty
> easy.  You can use Seahorse, a GNOME program which helps you to manage
> your keys, to create your first GnuPG key, upload your public key to
> the keyservers, and download other people's keys from the keyservers.
>
> The next thing to do, then, is to configure your email client of choice
> to use GnuPG.  The setup for that is client dependent, but I know that
> at least Evolution, Claws Mail, and Mutt can work with it.  All three
> of those should be available on most popular distributions (and are for
> sure on Ubuntu).
>
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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?

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Marc F.

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