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Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) Mini Howto (English)

Brenno J.S.A.A.F. de Winter (English) Michael Fischer v. Mollard (German) Arjen Baart

Version 0.1.4 August 10, 2004

This documents explains how to use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG), an Open Source OpenPGP compatible encryption system To keep this program totally free the use of the RSA algorithm and other patented algorithm has been avoided. The document was originally written by Michael Fischer v. Mollar in German. The text has been translated and adjusted on some points and cannot be considered as a full one-on-one copy.

1. Concepts

1.1 Public Key Encryption
1.2 Digital Signatures
1.3 Web of trust
1.4 Boundaries to security

2. Installation

2.1 Sources for GnuPG.
2.2 Configuration
2.3 Compile
2.4 Installation

3. Using keys

3.1 Creating a key
3.2 Exporting keys
3.3 Importing keys
3.4 Revoke a key
3.5 Key administration
3.6 Key signing

4. Encrypt and decrypt

4.1 Encrypt
4.2 Decrypt

5. Signing and checking signatures

6. Front ends

6.1 Graphical interfaces
6.2 Email programs

7. Sources of information

7.1 GnuPG
7.2 PGP
7.3 Keyservers
7.4 Books

8. About this document

8.1 Versions

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