PGP & GPG, email for the practical paranoid, by Michael W. Lucas
Type
Label
PGP & GPG, email for the practical paranoid, by Michael W. Lucas
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
PGP & GPG
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1568434360
Responsibility statement
by Michael W. Lucas
Sub title
email for the practical paranoid
Summary
PGP & GPG is an easy-to read, informal tutorial for achieving electronic privacy on the cheap using the standard tools of the email privacy field - commercial PGP and non-commercial GnuPG (GPG). The book shows how to integrate these OpenPGP implementations into the most common email clients and how to use PGP and GPG in daily email correspondence both to send and receive encrypted email. PGP & GPG is written for the moderately skilled computer user who is unfamiliar with public key cryptography but who is, nevertheless, interested in guarding his email privacy. Lucas's relaxed tone makes this
Table Of Contents
Cryptography kindergarten -- Understanding OpenPGP -- Installing PGP -- Installing GnuPG -- The web of trust -- PGP key management -- Managing GnuPG keys -- OpenPGP and email -- PGP and email -- GnuPG and email -- Other OpenPGP considerations
resource.variantTitle
PGP and GPGPretty good privacy & GnuPGPretty good privacy & GNU Privacy GuardEmail for the practical paranoid