Getting PGP

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, June 8, 2009 22:20, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Graham Todd wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:28:06 -0700 (PDT)
>>>>> Yoji Atsumi <yoji.atsumi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> used to be (I am no longer a Moderator there, but some people there
>>>>> were professional security experts).  You can find it at:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PGP-Basics/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>    Well a lot of water under the bridge now. I have found seahorse and
>>>> it has both my key sets and it has a nice way to deliver my Public Key
>>>> to anyone via email. I have been talking with another PGP person in
>>>> town
>>>> who is using Windows version 9 and I sent him my Public Key and he sent
>>>> me a encrypted email which with ease I got my free Ubuntu system to
>>>> decrypt and it worked just fine.
>>>>
>>>>    I have a PDF book on PGP and the Cryptology which  has made me
>>>> understand how it works. So I am now ready to work with anyone who
>>>> would
>>>> like to try PGP.
>>> Have you tried installing GNU Privacy Assistant? It makes downloading
>>> from keyservers a snap.
>>>
>> 	Well I installed Enigmail which at first thought I made another error,
>> but as I went to the web page for Enigmail I found an Installation
>> Manual that is about 1/4 complete but what was there opened my eyes. I
>> have OpenPGP all over Thunderbird and one of the many things it does is
>> hunt for Public Key's. You do need to have the signature key of the
>> desired person.
>>
>> 	This told ME why you want to advertise your signature key. I was
>> convinced it held zero interest. But then the Installation Manual
>> explained in just a few words why you want the signature key.
> 
> It feels like a hundred years since I last use GPG/PGP, but back then, in
> the "good old days", there used to be a public key server on the Internet.
>  The idea was that when you associated a public key with your email
> address, you uploaded it to this key server and anybody who wants to send
> you an encrypted email could lookup your public key to encrypt your email
> with.
> 
> I have no idea if this kind of thing still exists, but it made GPG rather
> usable and friendly that way.

	Now there are several places to send your Public Key to. I sent mine to
one of them with enigmail and I assume it got there. But should check I
guess.

	I just deleted my first Key Set which in ignorance I made 1024 instead
of 2048. A couple of friends said my Public Key looks "funny", but it
worked fine. My current key is 2048 and it also works fine. I did all
this with enigmail.

73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
        Key ID = 3951B48D

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