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By far the most common search queries for people visiting my main site are about SHA settings with GnuPG.? These are a little complex, and depend on the type of key that you use (see my totorial on generating keys for more details on doing this), but once you understand what SHA algorithms do, it’s not quite so daunting

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As part of an ongoing project, I’ll be adding several specific tutorials to this site. Most will be regarding the use of OpenPGP communication and file encryption – if you’re at all interested, just select the Tutorials link from the right hand side of the screen.

In order to use OpenPGP email encryption, you need a key pair. Once you have installed Thunderbird, Enigmail and GnuPG you can generate your own key pair. There are two ways – an easy way giving you a basic setup with few options, or a slightly more complex way, giving you many more options. Read the rest of this entry »