On Friday 08 November 2019 23:52:03 deloptes wrote: > William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > > I myself would like to get a thread started about email encryption, as > > I've mucked around with it, but never have managed both to send and > > receive with anybody else; either I don't do it right, or they can't > > manage it on their end. But it would be nice to get a grasp of the > > fundamentals on crypto, so anybody who wants to get a TDE crypto thread > > going, I am in. > > Perhaps we write a howto in the TDE Wiki. I'm using it since 10+y w/o > issue. > > Important is to setup the keys in kgpg and the sign/encrypt and decrypt > functionality in kmail. > > There is always these two encrypt and decrypt. For the encryption you need > the private key. 1-2y ago I provided pinentry-tqt. I don't think it got > into the mainstream yet. Otherwise you have to use some other pinentry > (gnome,kde, terminal). This is setup in the gpg-agent config. > > So presumably your key is setup correctly in kgpg and kmail > > First you verify the key you want to encrypt for in kgpg and trust it (it > becomes green), then you can use this email adress (gpg identity) for > encrypting mails. > > I even sign these messages from time to time as others do. > > regards > > > Thanks so much. I will try to follow your steps and get myself set up. Thus far I have been held back by having email correspondents who know less than I about crypto (!), and yet see no especial need to use it themselves; so exchanging emails with them is almost totally useless. This is a start. It would be good for all of us to learn, as in the future it will only become more necessary, rather than less. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
