This page collects my articles on the GNU Privacy Guard (open
source alternative to PGP) for beginners. GPG will help you
protect your privacy, secure your e-mail and IM communication, encrypt
your sensitive data, backups and more. GnuPG is a versatile tool and
is extensively
documented, given its size it's impossible (and unnecessary) to
cover every aspect of its usage. These articles deal with practical
matters (and a little bit of theory) for first time users.
1. Notes
on the GNU Privacy Guard
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Using GnuPG for the first time; basics, key generation and management, revocation
2. Application
of the GNU Privacy Guard
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Continuing with basic usage; in e-mail, IM, system backups and more
3. Application
of the GPG Passphrase Agent
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Using the GnuPG Passphrase Agent for GPG and SSH key management
4. Notes on Alpine and GnuPG
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Using GnuPG and the Alpine e-mail client with Topal integration
5. Notes on Alpine and Topal
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Additional notes on using the Alpine e-mail client with Topal (switching to GPG2, remote mode...)