> Don't do that. Seriously. This is like saying "I want to learn how to > farm like my grandparents did!" Farming is hard enough: voluntarily > doing without, you know, *electricity* is just crazy. (In the United > States, many farms were without electricity until the 1940s!)
> These easy-to-use tools exist for a reason: to make GnuPG easy to use. > If you insist on doing things the hard way you have only yourself to > blame. First learn how to use GnuPG, and then figure out how to use > GnuPG like you would if it was 1992 after you've got your basic skills down. Haha. You're good with these. I don't want to be farming without electricity. You may want to check out a mailing list like PGPNET, which exists specifically to give people experience in sending/receiving encrypted mail. :) > I immediately did it. I saw you there. Using Thunderbird. Figuring it out. > Thank you all for all the good advice. S.B. On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 4:50 PM Robert J. Hansen <r...@sixdemonbag.org> wrote: > > > seems as though my entry into this realm was clearly... bad. I wanted > > to learn the system without using separate encryption software like > > kleopatra. I wanted to know how to do it with just gpg and any email > > provider. It's difficult, and I have a lot to learn. > > Don't do that. Seriously. This is like saying "I want to learn how to > farm like my grandparents did!" Farming is hard enough: voluntarily > doing without, you know, *electricity* is just crazy. (In the United > States, many farms were without electricity until the 1940s!) > > These easy-to-use tools exist for a reason: to make GnuPG easy to use. > If you insist on doing things the hard way you have only yourself to > blame. First learn how to use GnuPG, and then figure out how to use > GnuPG like you would if it was 1992 after you've got your basic skills down. > > > and... I was hoping that, since I have your email, key ID, and fingerprint > > ;) > > I could write an encrypted message to your sixdemonbag email. I'd > > completely understand if you'd rather not. I just have now found > > myself luring friends and relatives into learning this with me and > > exchanging encrypted emails and... it's not going well. > > You may want to check out a mailing list like PGPNET, which exists > specifically to give people experience in sending/receiving encrypted > mail. :) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
