[PLUG] LeRoy's Enigmail/GPG how-to excellent

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

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Arthur S. Alexion wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 January 2004 11:22 am, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi Arthur,
> >
> > If you are not running enigmail when you are using Mozilla then there
> > will be no indication on whether the message is signed or not.  On the
> > other hand enigmail will report is the signature is either good, bad, or
> > untrusted good signature.
> >
> > I just updated the enigmail howto with support for mozilla 1.5 and above
> > which also included Thunderbird.
> >
> > See below for link
> >    

For info on enigmail:    http://lrcressy.com/linux/mozilla.pdf
For info on gpg:         http://www.gnupg.org/

> Thanks, LeRoy.  Walt's problem with someone forging his address, hardly new or 
> unique, has finally pushed me to learn and use GPG and to start using 
> signatures.  I've been signing PDFs using Adobe's built-in signature 
> technology (I have a 'p7c' signature.) but haven't been able to learn how to 
> use that signature with email and other documents.
>
> I downloaded two GUI front ends for GPG (kgpg & gpa) and am trying to install 
> them in hopes that they help me learn GPG.  Once I generate keys, I plan to 
> install enigmail so I appreciate the how-to.
>  

I have always had a mental block against learning and understanding 
pgp/gpg.  Figured it was time I forced myself to learn.

First tried downloading and installing some gui front ends to gpg to 
help with my blocking.  What a waste of time.  After installing no less 
than a dozen dependencies, I finally gave up on all 3: kgpg, gpa & GnomeGPG.

Then, I tried downloading the MiniHowTo from the gpg site.  Not being 
able to read Catalan, I downloaded the limited English options. (Yes 
there is a multi-file online version, but that's no way to read 
something.)  Well even the postscript file failed because it uses Type 3 
fonts -- not on my system.

I was going to go to my windows computer and use Acrobat to create a PDF 
of the multi-file howto when I decided to read LeRoy's howto that I had 
downloaded. 

Well, it wasn't just a mozilla/enigmail howto, but also included some 
easy to understand GPG instructions too.  I heartily recommend it to 
anyone who wants to start using gpg or anyone who wants to use it with 
mozilla.

Thanks, LeRoy.

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