PGP with mail

juanb · 08-19-2004, 05:05 AM

Hi,

I have a quesion about PGP and e mail,

I saw that on some mailing lists that some mailers are usuing

something like:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: PGP 8.0.3

what does it mean and how it will help me be more secure?

how can I start using it also ?

Is it just used from linux machines ?

thanks

iceman47 · 08-19-2004, 05:20 AM

Try to use google first next time.
http://www.gnupg.org/

Oliv' · 08-19-2004, 09:39 AM

Hi,

About PGP and e-mail, be careful it's not compatible with all mail clients. I know it's compatible with mozilla mail client thanks to egnimail and also mutt.
But as iceman said, see gnupg site for more info

Oliv'

stickman · 08-19-2004, 10:05 AM

There are quite a few email clients that are compatible either GPG or PGP. With a few exceptions GPG users should be able to send to PGP users and vice-versa since GPG is designed to be OpenPGP compliant (RFC2440). I've been building a list of clients and plugins that support encryption. There are clients for multiple platforms.