/openpgp-usage

OpenPGP usage information.

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OpenPGP Usage

This is a short guide to using OpenPGP (as implemented by GnuPG) to secure email communication from an adversary who collects and stores everything being sent and received on the internet.

It is hoped that the guide, whilst short, will bring together numerous sources of information which can be daunting new users or frustrate their attempts to secure their email communication.

To start with, there is a little background which describes the goals of the guide and a little about the set-up.

Then there are guides for the individual operations, notably:-

There is also a sample configuration file for GnuPG which you may wish to use in place of the default configuration.

Bibliography

This guide builds on the work of many other people:-