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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810378703321

Autore

Lucas Michael <1967->

Titolo

PGP & GPG [[electronic resource] ] : email for the practical paranoid / / by Michael W. Lucas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : No Starch Press, c2006

ISBN

1-59327-112-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

004.692

Soggetti

Electronic mail systems - Security measures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cryptography kindergarten -- Understanding OpenPGP -- Installing PGP -- Installing GnuPG -- The web of trust -- PGP key management -- Managing GnuPG keys -- OpenPGP and email -- PGP and email -- GnuPG and email -- Other OpenPGP considerations.

Sommario/riassunto

PGP & GPG is an easy-to read, informal tutorial for achieving electronic privacy on the cheap using the standard tools of the email privacy field - commercial PGP and non-commercial GnuPG (GPG). The book shows how to integrate these OpenPGP implementations into the most common email clients and how to use PGP and GPG in daily email correspondence both to send and receive encrypted email. PGP & GPG is written for the moderately skilled computer user who is unfamiliar with public key cryptography but who is, nevertheless, interested in guarding his email privacy. Lucas's relaxed tone makes this