2011 Macintosh GPG Info

2/9/2015

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General GnuPG info: www.gnupg.org. 

Integrated Installer for OS 10.6 -10.10- http://gpgtools.org/

It is available at https://www.gpgtools.org/installer/index.html   This was easy to install, and works smoothly (OSX 10.6 - 10.10 and Thunderbird 17.0.2).

There is a plug-in for Apple Mail (versions for OSX 10.3 through 10.7) called GPGMail at https://www.gpgtools.org/gpgmail/index.html.

Enigmail is a plugin to Firefox / Thunderbird  that adds integrated encryption/decryption support using OpenPGP (e.g., GnuPG). The Enigmail plugin will work with many different browsers.

    http://www.enigmail.org

You must create a key, and a keyring (database) to hold your keys, and the public keys of the recipients. This can be done with Enigmail (Manage Keys) or with gnupg -

       http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GPGMiniHowto.html

You cab also encrypt and sign a plain text file with just gnupg, and then cut and paste resulting .asc file into a plaintext email using Zimbra.

    https://www.gnupg.org/

gpg -e jacopeland3@nctv.com -s -a  your_plain_text.txt     # output is your_plain_text.asc

You have to know how to keep applications from turning the plaintext message into HTML or RTF.   If you are using Windows, download “notepad++” from the Internet.

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