I spent a few minutes on Friday fiddling with Gnupg and Winpt. Winpt is the Windows Privacy tools which is a front-end to Gnupg. I think I got started in this direction when I saw a post about someone will be signing all future updates using gpg. So I went back to check on Winpt and Gnupg and found that both had been updated. I played a little bit and learned a lot about the correct way to use them. I was proud that I actually remembered my passphrase so I could validate some keys. I also ended up opening up port 11371 so the keyserver query would work correctly.