A cuple of PGP questions

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BTW - what PGP plugins are you using for outlook?

 

Once you have created the keys, and import kmack's key, you have to sign it and initialize the DB and cache so that his keys are visible and usable by email clients such as KMail, Sylpheed, etc... Follow these instructions;

 

4. Using PGP/GnuPGP to send sensitive E-Mail.

 

KMail gives the ability to use GnuPGP on the fly, without having to do encrypt and decrypt messages manually in a console. First you have to get your key working properly, and then import your keys, sign them, then update the trust database so the the key rings are properly validated, and can be used properly in KMail. To do this follow these steps.

 

- First you need to just create the "/home/user/.gnupg" folder by running

"$gpg",

- Create your new keys

"$gpg --gen-key",

- Choose "DSA and ElGamal (default)", this will allow you to sign and encrypt/decrypt messages,

- Follow the prompts and enter all the required information, password, and allow it to generate your key pair. If it errors out, simple re-run

"$gpg --gen-key,

- Once you have your keys generated properly, you can begin to add other keys to your public key ring,

- To import the keys

"$gpg --import keyname.asc" then, to sign them

"$gpg --sign-key keyname.asc",

- Next you need to create a trust database

"$gpg --update-trustdb",

- Then update the key db caches

"$gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches",

- Once all this has been accomplished, you can configure KMail to use your key,

- Go into the "KMail settings, Identities, Modify, Advanced Tab,

- In the window, there is an option to choose your "OpenPGP key:"

- Select the "Change" button and select your key, if for some reason it won't let you select it, it will be because you have not setup/configured the OpenPGP

options in the Security Settings.