confirm blah, or why signing mail may be a good idea.

[Alex Snow]

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If you download the pgp_create_traditional patch setting it up isn't 
really that hard. but without that patch it's a lot of work.
On Thu, Mar 
04, 2004 at 05:41:34PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> It's one thing to get the scoop on gpg and mutt, but something
> different to find the time to sit down and set it up (sigh).
> 
> BTW, gnupg comes with slackware 9.1 in the n series.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:04:25PM -0600, Thomas Stivers wrote:
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> > On 03/04/04 11:28 AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > I've seen PGP stuff in mail for years but never really grasped how one
> > > could really validate the key and such.  Can you point one to some
> > > intro docs to get us started? I don't want to have to read 10 volumes
> > > on advanced data encryption schemes  to get a clue but at least some
> > > basic steps on how to configure mutt / pine and how the process works
> > > and whether or not I should register my public key; that would be a
> > > pay service, would it not?  Any way, sorry for the dumb questions but
> > 
> > Its not a pay service, that's one of the big differences between pgp and
> > the signing/encrypting system that M$ products use.
> > 
> > > if it is all that valuable, I might as well get on board:).
> > 
> > The GNU Privacy Guard (gpg for short) is Gnu's tool which provides pgp
> > functionality. Pgp is a piece of commercial software, but it is also the
> > generic term for the openpgp system. Openpgp is defined in RFC2440. Now
> > that all that is out of the way to the good stuff. Most distributions,
> > or at least Redhat and Debian have gnupg packages. I don't remember
> > about slackware as it's been a few years sense I used Slackware. One way
> > or another you can install gnupg from source as you would any other
> > tarball. It is available at www.gnupg.org. To learn the basics and what
> > the point of signing and encrypting messages is the GNU Privacy Handbook
> > is a pretty good read. It can be found at
> > http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html. I think it goes over the basics
> > pretty well. Once you have your keys created, backed up, and uploaded to
> > a keyserver like subkeys.pgp.net (hopefully that is all explained in the
> > GPH) you need to get mutt or pine configured to work with gpg. I am
> > using mutt, so I am more familiar with it, but I think if you google for
> > a package called pgp4pine or even just pgp AND pine there are several
> > different sets of scripts to make handling pgp in pine relatively
> > painless. For mutt if you put the contents of
> > /usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/gpg.rc in your .muttrc it should just work.
> > If it doesn't I can resend the relevant portion of my file (actually
> > Debian's /etc/Muttrc). It really isn't all that hard and you needn't
> > know the nuts and bolts of krypto to get a working setup. If you have
> > any more questions just let me know and I will try to help out. I am
> > just a user though, and don't really know all that much. Good luck.
> > 
> > - -- 
> > Clarke's Corollary:
> > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> > Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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