Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) Mini Howto (English)

Brenno J.S.A.A.F. de Winter (english) <brenno@dewinter.com>

Michael Fischer v. Mollard (german) <fischer@math.uni-goettingen.de>

1. Concepts

• 1.1 Public Key Encryption
• 1.2 Digitale Signatures
• 1.3 Web of trust
• 1.4 Boundaries to security

2. Installation

• 2.1 Sources for GnuPG.
• 2.2 Configuration
• 2.3 Compile
• 2.4 Installation

3. Using keys

• 3.1 Creating a key
• 3.2 Exporting keys
• 3.3 Importing keys
• 3.4 Revoke a key
• 3.5 Key administration
• 3.6 Key signing

4. Encrypt and decrypt

• 4.1 Encrypt
• 4.2 Decrypt

5. Signing and checking singnatures

6. Sources of information

• 6.1 GnuPG
• 6.2 PGP
• 6.3 Keyservers
• 6.4 Books

7. About this document

• 7.1 Versions