{"id":379,"date":"2006-04-04T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/?p=379"},"modified":"2006-12-19T09:21:21","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T13:21:21","slug":"gpg4win-email-security-using-gnupg-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/04\/gpg4win-email-security-using-gnupg-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"gpg4win &#8211; EMail-Security using GnuPG for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpg4win.org\/\">gpg4win &#8211; EMail-Security using GnuPG for Windows<\/a><br \/>\nI saw that there was new update for GnuPG so I went over to the site to check it out. In the download information they recommended checking out gpg4win for a consolidated install package for GnuPG and several useful utilities. Most of the utilities I have used in the past were buggy, hard to install correctly, and with a very slow update schedule. Recently I had started using the explorer add-in, <a href=\"http:\/\/gpgee.excelcia.org\/\">GPGee<\/a>, and was pleasantly surprised. It made checking GPG signatures relatively painless. At gpg4win I found an install package with all of the packages, GnuPG and GPGee, I wanted to install on my laptop and a couple more, GPGol and GPGA, I was interested in trying out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g10code.de\/p-gpgol.html\">GPGcol<\/a> is a plugin for Microsoft Outlook to integrate GnuPG and thus OpenPGP encryption and digital signatures. After restarting Outlook 2003 I found the tab in the preferences. When I changed my mail editor away from Word I saw the buttons for signing and encrypting with GPG. There was also a menu entry under tools for GPA.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>GNU Privacy Assistant<\/em> (GPA) is a graphical user interface for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnupg.org\">GnuPG<\/a> (GNU Privacy Guard). Managing keys with GnuPG has always been the hard part for me in working with GnuPG. Since I use GnuPG so infrequently I always had to return to my cheat sheet to remember how to import or refresh a user key using the command line. GPA is a GUI frontend to the GnuPG commands and seems to do the job without much fuss.<\/p>\n<p>At least for me the consolidated installation via gpg4win is major step forward in improving the user experience. Finding the right tool to make GnuPG more user friendly has always been a hit or miss proposition for the occasional user. Some of the tools existed but were poorly maintained. Gpg4win has a nice collection of stable GnuPG utilities that installs easily and makes using GPG signatures and encryption easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gpg4win &#8211; EMail-Security using GnuPG for Windows I saw that there was new update for GnuPG so I went over to the site to check it out. In the download information they recommended checking out gpg4win for a consolidated install package for GnuPG and several useful utilities. Most of the utilities I have used in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/04\/gpg4win-email-security-using-gnupg-for-windows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;gpg4win &#8211; EMail-Security using GnuPG for Windows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-67","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}