On 04/24/2016 09:51 AM, Daniel H. Werner wrote: > I downloaded GPGTools on my Mac laptop (I have not done it on my Mac desktop > yet > as I want to be sure I know what I am doing!!!) and did the Install. > I Imported my existing keys. > And I have several question/problems:
First off, I can't answer all of your questions, because I am not familiar with GPGTools. But I have provided answers to some of your questions. > 1) When I open a new email message window, I see a green box in the upper > right > hand corner which is labeled “OpenPGP”. Is that right? Yes, it is. If you visit https://gpgtools.org/ and scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see slides that you can click through. One of them shows a screenshot of this. > 2) Should I be able to toggle GPG on and off; I believe so. The slide that I referred to above says that you can click the lock button (it is a button with a glyph in the form of a lock) to encrypt your email to the recipient. > 3) I composed a short Test message to send to myself. In order to Encrypt it, > I > selected the text, went to Services and selected Encrypt. That gave me the > encrypted code in a new window. It seemed to me that I then had to select > that > text, copy and then paste it into the new message. There has to be a simpler > way to perform these functions? What are they? I believe you are supposed to click the lock button I mentioned above. Please see the section of website that I referred to earlier. > 4) My existing keys were created (in 2009 in PGP) at 2048 length. Should I > change them to 4096? If so, how? No, that is not necessary. Do know that many people have *strong* opinions about key length that are based little empirical fact. [1] See the GnuPG FAQ topic about this. [2] > 5) Even if I do not Encrypt the outgoing message, I get a window asking for > my > Passphrase. In the older PGP version, I had the option to cache the > Passphrase > so I did not have to enter it every time. How do I simplify this function? I am sorry. I don't know the answer to this question. Hope that helps, -Paul [1] I apologized to the list if I have opened that horrendous can of worms again by answering this question. [2] https://gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html#no_default_of_rsa4096 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
