Steve Smith wrote: > I'm trying to get to the bottom of what GPG is and how it works. I > can't find a description that covers the absolute basics of what it > is, would anyone care to explain to me? Does it have anything to do > at all with the actual computer you create it on, or is it just > completely random? How does it actually provide proof of > identification, etc in practise? > > Thanks :) > Steve > > I'm no expert in gpg but, basically you create a key with your name and email to sign/encrypt data with, in order to let others verify that the key is yours you need to send it to a keyserver which others can check against. The keyservers update from each other so if you send you key to one (like "keyserver.ubuntu.com") then other servers will be updated with your key as well.
Take a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto for more info. Tez -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
