Owen -

   - I use the paid version, because I've got tons of PDFs.
   - Administering gpg can be a little opaque but there's some good guides
   out there (cheat sheet
here<http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~lockhart/gpg/gpg-cs.html>;
original
   reference documentation—surprisingly
readable—here<http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html>
   ).
   - Mac/Win/Linux availability: yes. In all cases you can get GUI clients
   that sit on top of the command line tool, but to be honest I find the
   command line gpg easier to use. iPhone/Android: dunno, but I tend to use
   those as read-only devices.
   - Once I had my public and secret keys set up I've only ever used "gpg
   -d" to decode a file and "gpg -e -s" to symmetrically encode it and sign it.

-- R



On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good info!  gpg is new to me, so a question or two:
> - Do you use the pay Dropbox service?  .. or just the free one?
> - Is gpg (http://www.gnupg.org/) easy to administer?  Does it replace SSH
> key pairs?
> - Is gpg available fairly universally .. iPhone/Android, Mac/Win/Linux ..
> web hosting services?
> - What's gpg like to use?
>
> Sounds interesting.
>
>      -- Owen
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:
>
> Owen - I work interchangeably on my office and home computers and I use
> Dropbox to keep particular parts of my setup synced between the two
> machines. In particular:
>
>    1. my to-do lists, engineer's notebook, big file o' passwords (gpg-ed,
>    of course)  and simple Python utilities all go into Dropbox & hence are
>    always up to date and accessible;
>    2. my ever-growing collection of .PDFs of academic journals and papers
>    goes into Dropbox so I can easily get it from any machine (and add to it
>    from any of my machines).
>
> I do have Dropbox enabled on my Droid, but I don't think the Droid is
> terribly effective as an input device and its screen is just too small
> for comfortable viewing of PDFs, so I don't use it much for that. Handy in
> an emergency though.
>
> -- R
>
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Anyone on the list using dropbox a lot?  I'm wondering if the iPad/iPhone
>> app would be useful.
>>
>>    -- Owen
>>
>>
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