For people who want to communicate with other people rather than bots, there is also this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GPGpractice/ https://www.reddit.com/r/publickeyexchange/ On 05/29/2017 01:00 PM, Duane Whitty wrote: > Hi list, > > When I checked my email this morning I had an encrypted message from > someone I didn't know and had never heard of signed with a signature for > which no public key was available. > > When I saw the email with a subject "test, test, hello" (or something to > that effect" I decided not to let Thunderbird/Enigmail process it but > rather I copy and pasted the cypher text into a file and used the > command line to look at it.. > > The message and relevant gpg output was: > > "Subject: test, test - hello > > hey, i hope you don't mind - I just wanted to test using GPG and I > picked you at random." > > gpg: Signature made Mon 29 May 2017 02:59:23 AM ADT > gpg: using RSA key (deleting for email to list) > gpg: Can't check signature: No public key" > > To the person who sent me this my reply is that yes I do mind. I tend > to believe no harm is intended and I'm not terribly upset over it but I > consider it to be bad Internet etiquette. It would be only a little > more acceptable if you had published your public key so that the > signature you used to sign with could at least be verified. > > Having hashed that out welcome to the community :-) > > To test your setup try this link, https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ > I haven't used it myself but unless someone from the list knows why it > shouldn't be used it should fine. > > I also highly recommend reading https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html > > The above links are just to get started. Happy pgp'ing > > Best Regards, > Duane > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users >
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