Securing Your Email With Thunderbird and GPG: a Crashcourse
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Goto the new OpenPGP menu and select Key Managment
In the new window, select Generate->New Key Pair
Select which account you would like to associate the Keys with.
Enter a password for the keys and select Generate Keys.
Your newly generated keys should now be in the key management list of managed keys.
3. Test the Encryption
Create a new Email to yourself
Enter some text in the subject and body
From the OpenGPG menu, select Sign Message and Encrypt Message
When you select the Send button, you will see your message converted to ASCII Armor, which is your message encrypted using your key information.
Select Get Mail to receive your new encrypted message. By default the encrypted message will be decrypted automatically. You can change this from the OpenPGP menu.
4. Distribute your public key. It will be used by others to encrypt email sent to you.
There are quite a few mentions of "OpenPGP" in this article, which I think should read "OpenGPG" instead
Cheers,
-jk
by Bharatsoni on Tue, 2007-02-20 06:03
Although this is a good article, I need to know what will be the next step to decrypt the message that is being send.
Say I follow the procedure as told with thundrbird. I send a mail (encrypted & signed) to a person who is using outlook on xp machine. How that mail will be decrypted. I have also send my public key to him. What that person need to use with outlook to decrypt the message.
Thanks in anticipation.
by x81kilo on Fri, 2010-09-17 16:41
was Bharatsoni's question ever answered on how to read on the receiving end an encrypted msg?
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Cheers,
-jk
Say I follow the procedure as told with thundrbird. I send a mail (encrypted & signed) to a person who is using outlook on xp machine. How that mail will be decrypted. I have also send my public key to him. What that person need to use with outlook to decrypt the message.
Thanks in anticipation.