On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:23:09PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -- > Hello to all being a newbie to debian and to mutt can some one explain what and how >PGP works i have mutt 0.95i installed but i don't know how to use PGP? :-) > "CAR'N THE SAINTS" > Craig McVean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Hi, 0. preparing private and public keys 1. minimal entries in /usr/local/Muttrc alternatively in ~/.muttrc: (...) # set pgp_v2="/usr/bin/pgp" # set pgp_v2_language="en" # set pgp_v2_pubring="" # set pgp_v2_secring="" set pgp_v5="/usr/bin/pgp" #set pgp_v5_language="en" set pgp_v5_pubring="~/.pgp/pubring.pkr" set pgp_v5_secring="~/.pgp/secring.skr" set pgp_gpg="no" # set pgp_default_version="pgp2" # (Not really the default, but...) set pgp_default_version="pgp5" 2. m (for mailing) 3. writing the mail in your favourite editor 4. closing this editor 5. Inside the compose menue: p in order to get the PGP menu 6. b in order to sign and encrypt your message 7. Typing in your passphrase to get access to your private key 8. y to send message If you don't know what a private or public key is or how to generate them it is really necessary that you read at least Phil Zimmermans docs delivered with every pgp-package, because a small feeling for the mechanism pgp uses is essential for YOUR security - and that is why you are interested in pgp, aren't you. Bye, Juergen. -- ***************************************************************** * Juergen Leising, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * http://www.stud.uni-bayreuth.de/~a0037/ * *****************************************************************
