[PLUG] Re: gpg

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 07:28, slash_axl_rose_upen wrote:
> hi all
> how to use gpg in linux
> can i use it for encrypting data in mails sent from my
> workstation ??if yes...
> HOW/????
> please mail on my id the procedure...thnx in advance

Normally, encrypting mail is as simple as using the following mail:

% gpg -ae -r <recipient_email> message.eml

This command will encrypt your message to <recipient_email>, which you
can determine by listing the keys you have on your ring via:

gpg --list-keys

It will also ASCII armor your message for email transport and put it in
a file called message.eml.asc. NOTE: You must have the recipient's key
on your public keyring or you cannot encrypt a message to them. You can
still sign the message, however.

However, this requires you to compose the mail, save it to the
filesystem, run the command and then send the .asc file to the
recipient. I suggest using an MUA that integrates with GPG already,
making the task much simpler. Mutt and Evolution have this capability
and are quite popular.

This location has all the documentation you will need to learn how to
use GPG for whatever tasks you desire. Alternatively, you could try the
man page for gpg, which has a lot of information in it, as well. 

http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/index.html

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<< Tobias DiPasquale >>
UNIX Software Engineer
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