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Title: what is PGP is and how to use it? Post by: hangar18 on February 17, 2015, 07:06:07 AM any people give a simple explanation of what PGP is and how to use it?
Title: Re: what is PGP is and how to use it? Post by: One Six on February 17, 2015, 07:10:49 AM Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy Title: Re: what is PGP is and how to use it? Post by: LOBSTER on February 17, 2015, 07:14:07 AM Use it with Thunderbird! Always End-to-End Encryption!
Title: Re: what is PGP is and how to use it? Post by: Gisado on February 17, 2015, 07:22:43 AM PGP is 'pretty good privacy', encryption software. And most users use GnuPG, opensource implementation of it(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard).)
https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org may be helpful for beginners. Title: Re: what is PGP is and how to use it? Post by: odolvlobo on February 17, 2015, 09:02:52 AM There are basically two things you can do with PGP:
1. Encrypt/decrypt messages between you and somebody else. 2. Prove that you or somebody else are who they say they are. Title: Re: what is PGP is and how to use it? Post by: hangar18 on February 17, 2015, 08:43:21 PM Thanks for all replies ! :)
Title: Re: what is PGP is and how to use it? Post by: lophie on February 18, 2015, 08:06:43 AM I agree with the posts above the best way is to find a use for it for you and fro there you build how familiar you are with PGP. start with using thunderbird as an email client and install engimail plugin which will make it very easy to encrypt. decrypt and keep track of your cryptographic identites.
Title: Re: what is PGP is and how to use it? Post by: SirChiko on February 18, 2015, 01:21:01 PM Also don't forget to go for encryption eith higher number of bytes as it's more secure
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