PGP & GPG : email for the practical paranoid / by Michael W. Lucas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucas, Michael W. (Michael Warren), 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

PGP (Computer file).

Electronic mail systems--Security measures.

Electronic mail systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

PGP and GPG

Pretty good privacy & GnuPG

Pretty good privacy & GNU Privacy Guard

Email for the practical paranoid

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : No Starch Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

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

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781593271121

1593271123

OCLC:

568434360