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January 14, 2013, 03:04:39 PM |
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PGP isn't email. You send email using your email client. GPG just creates encrypted messages. You can email them but you can also send them as a private message, transfer them by dropbox, hand them to the recipient on a usb drive, or even print them out. GPG just encrypts messages, you can deliver them however you like. To use an analogy your quesiton would be like asking how can you use winzip to email files. Winzip is used to compress files and then you can send them however you like.
To encrypt a message that you can email there are multiple options but here is the simplest one (since you already have GPG4Win installed).
To create an encrypted message Start GPA (In Windows Start > GPG4WIN > GPA) Click on [Clipboard] Write your message. Click on [Encrypt] Select the key of the recipeint (you can select yours as a test). The clipboard will change to encrypted version of your message. Copy the entire contents of the clipboard (entire mean entire include the BEGIN and END lines). Open your favorite email program or webapp (gmail, etc). Paste the encrypted message into the body of the email. Send the email like normal.
To decrypt a message Copy the entire encrypted message (entire means entire include the BEGIN and END lines). Open GPA (Start > GPG4Win > GPA) Click [Clipboard]] Paste the encrypted message. Click [Decrypt] Enter your private key passphrase when prompted. The clipboard will change to the decrypted message.
For testing you can encrypt a message to yourself, email it to yourself, then copy it back to GPA using the two sets of instructions above.
I recommend you also try installing Cryptophane (an alternative GPG "client").
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