PGP signatures.

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 30 May 2008 04:34:41 Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Let me share that to me the whole discussion of PGP signatures was
> > very unenlightening. I have no idea how to sign e-mail or validate a
> > pgp signed e-mail All the discussion seemed to me to be aimed at
> > people who knew all about this.
>
> Before you can make use of pgp in mail, you have to get pgp working.
> After you've made your own keys, the next thing you'll need is the other
> party's keys.  You've got to be able to manage getting them in some way.
>
> *Then* you can move on to actually using them.  Though there's probably
> a "understanding how the scheme works" process that you need to go
> through, first, judging by your comments.
>
> Start with the documentation, that's where most of the rest of us
> started, and you're less likely to get given a bum steer by it.
>
> --
> (This box runs Centos 5.0, my others still run FC 4, 5, 6, & 7, in case
> that's important to the thread.)
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.

Some time back Fajar Priyanto wrote an excellent how-to.  I'd recommend it.

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Desktop/MUA/Kmail

Anne
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