[Ir-l] [IR-L]: PGP Tutorial.

[William Palfreman]

No problem at all Jon.  From looking at you headers I can tell
you use a reasonably modern Windows 95/98 pc - (other versions
of pgp are available for the UNIX and Mac platforms, although
UNIX users will probably prefer to use the GNU version, which
is called GPG and can be got from www.gpg.org).  As a Windows
user go to www.pgpi.org and download the international version
from one of the sites - typically the Norwegian one, or
whatever.  It is about 10mb, so it may take a while.  The
current version is about 6.5.2 or something.  It'll come as a
zip file so unzip it (you may have to download WinZip for this)
and run the setup.exe program.  When installing, disable all
the plugins (they are unstable), disable PGPnet (it generally
wrecks people's internet connection), do not install encryption
of network or internet adapters (same thing), only install PGP
itself, the DOS/Command line version too, and the
documentation.   When asked to give a key-size, set it to 4096,
not 2048.  Set the expiry date to never.  If it takes more than
a few seconds to generate your key pair just do some random
typing and move the mouse about a bit, so as to give it some
random numbers to use.  Put in a nice long passphrase and when
prompted do send your public key to the keyserver via the
internet and do allow it to run PGP when Windows starts.  Do
also Run PGP keys when you have finished.  That's about it.
Enjoy.  It comes with loads of good help pages.  My public keys
can be got off my website on
www.impac.freeserve.co.uk/wfpkeys.asc

regards,
Bill.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jon <diogenes at wmni.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <ir-l at gn.apc.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 5:52 PM
Subject: [IR-L]: Re: RIP (fwd)


> This is a damned fine idea. I am quite interested in PGP for
all the
> reasons
> that I have been reading about in this list. It isn't that I
have
> anything to
> hide, it is that it rankles to see a bunch'a bozos in law
enforcement
> and government attack its use by citizens for Christ's sake!
>
> As of yet I cannot make head or tails of how to go about
using it.
> Am working on it. Between arcane subject matter, limited time
and the
> fact that the info isn't all in one spot in readable form for
the
> interested
> layman, I'm screwed.
>
> If somebody gets a user friendly tutorial together and begins
to
> circulate
> it, I'm sure your efforts would be widely appreciated.
>
> Seriously,
>
> Jon Stoneman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pete Reffell <zappa at gn.apc.org>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <ir-l at gn.apc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 7:43 AM
> Subject: [IR-L]: Re: RIP (fwd)
>
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ir-l at gn.apc.org [mailto:ir-l at gn.apc.org]On Behalf Of
Robin
> Gaskell
> > Sent: 26 April 2000 03:50
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: [IR-L]: Re: RIP (fwd)
> >
> >
> >
> > > Is there an 'easy-reading' guide to PGP?
> >
> > Good question. I would also like to get a little more up to
speed
> with PGP -
> > I do use it in a limited way. If there is not currently
anything
> that
> > details PGP use, as well as general file security, then
maybe we
> should
> > organise one as a list project ;-)
> > But seriously, I have to write this kind of stuff for
work -
> teaching
> > undergraduates how to use IT. If people who have a clue
answer the
> questions
> > of those who do not, and those who do not have a clue get
some good
> > questions together, so on and so forth. If we are going to
discuss
> this
> > stuff we may as well make good use of it. Raise the profile
a little
> and
> > provide something for all computer users.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>