| gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:02:53 +0200 |
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:32:46PM -0400, Mike Pflugfelder wrote: > I'd like to get into encrypting / signing my e-mail, but I don't > understand some/all of what's out there. Could someone help me figure this > stuff out. In particular, some of the questions I have are: You might want to start by reading: http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/ http://www.openpgp.org/ http://www.phillylinux.org/keys/ I think they'll answer most of your questions. > Are GPG and PGP different solutions? Yes. PGP is a commercial product, recently discontinued, from NAI. GPG is the short name for GnuPG, which is GPL'ed software released by the GNU project. > Are the compatible? Mostly, except where older PGP formats are incompatible with newer ones (and even then GnuPG can be made to play nicely). > Does PLUG use GPG? To me, it seems that way. Not exclusively. > Where could I go to get software to integrate into Outlook? (It's my primary > MUA) Well, you could download NAI's software, though it's now officially unsupported. I don't think anyone's really bothered to hook GnuPG into Outlook yet. If you've got the itch for that, maybe you should scratch it. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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