On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 00:18, John R. McPherson wrote:
See http://www.wlug.org.nz/WhySignEmail for more reasons, and http://www.wlug.org.nz/GPGMailClients for mail clients that support using encryption and signatures.
If you don't have a key, but want to start using one, follow the notes on the http://www.wlug.org.nz/GPG/PGPNotes page, and please tell us if the page is too hard to follow - you can always edit the page to leave a message, or to change it yourself! This page gives an introduction to what it is, how it works, and step-by-step instructions for getting set up. Its a good idea after that to, if you're not too paranoid, to back up your personal key somewhere. Either make a copy of your .gnupg folder, or print out an amored version of your key (gpg --amour --export-key keyid [i think?]) and lock it in a safe somewhere. That way, if you delete your .gnupg folder by accident (whistles innocently) you can restore it.
Alastair -- (o< - A l a s t a i r P o r t e r //\ V_/_ alastair(a)linuxexperience.com