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

[Steve Holmes]

I recall a number of people having a hell of a time getting mutt to
work with PGP.  And now a patch is needed? What versions of mutt
require this patch? I'm currently using version 1.4.1i, currently
distributed with Slackware 9.1.

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:53:10PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
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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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