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Re: GnuPG/OpenPGP primer?



 On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Gregory Boyce wrote: 

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Don Levey wrote: 
> 
>> At the risk of asking a ridiculously elementary question, does anyone have 
>> a pointer to a GPG/PGP primer, including such conceptual things as "what is 
>> the problem we're trying to solve" and "why bother", as well as the basic 
>> mechanics of it all? 
> 
> I used to have a PDF file written by Zimmerman which was an intro to PGP that 
> covered a lot of the stuff you're looking for.  I'll see if I can dig it up. 

I don't have my local copy to confirm, but I believe it was this: 
ftp://ftp.pgpi.org/pub/pgp/7.0/docs/english/IntroToCrypto.pdf 

It gives an overview of encryption, and then applies it to how PGP itself 
works. 

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