Enjoy the brave new world of computing now that your data is safe.
With programs as easy as GPG4Win, I no longer believe there is a reason to leave your data readable to everyone with a few thousand dollars worth or equipment and the desire to get your data. If you did not set Claws to check automatically for you, you can simply click the lock on the bottom and it will check. Notice that this message has informed my signature is good. Without a key, we cannot receive encrypted messages (and without someone else's key, we can't send them). Most of this is simple and self-explanatory and we won't be covering it right now. You will probably notice a big screen of menacing tabs, options, and toolbars.
Once the program is installed, open up Kleopatra. If you have Outlook, you can use that instead, but I won't be covering it. I will also be using Kleopatra, Claws, and the GPG windows explorer add-on. I will be using 2.2.0 for my tutorial, but I suggest getting whatever is the most recent stable version. The beginner especially so, because using it is so damn easy!įinally, it is both free and open source. GPG4Win is great for the beginner and the advanced user in a Windows environment. Or I suppose I should say, worry as much. Without going into the details of public key cryptography, this means that messages can be encrypted so that no one can read them without having to worry about the difficulties and perils of key distribution. Likewise, you can do the same with their public keys. Public key encryption is great for communications because anyone can send you a message by using your public key for encryption. GPG4Win is the Windows implementation of GPG, or GNU Privacy Guard, a public key encryption system.
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