PGP/GnuPG keysigning at BLU meeting?

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Wed Oct 10 16:36:18 EDT 2001


robertb-blu at continuumsi.com (Robert Brown) writes:

> I'd like more information.
> 
> I use pgp 2.6.X and pgpsendmail.  I do not use gpg because I thought that
> I cannot use the public keyservers with it.  Is this correct?
> 
> Also, is there something like pgpsendmail for gpg?  I noticed that the
> messages below have attachments.  Is there a way to automatically encrypt
> and/or sign all messages sent, perhaps as an S/MIME attachment?  (Are the
> attachments below S/MIME attachments?  I have never seen one so I don't
> know.)

I use gpg, and it works fine with the public keyservers. I originally used
pgp 2.6.2 in 1995, but at the time I had no luck integrating it with pine.
Earlier this year I dusted off my old key and imported it into gpg, and 
I've
been using it ever since. As I recall, the chief complication I ran into
was that gpg, as distributed by Redhat, didn't support the IDEA algorithm
out of the box; I think I had to download the source somewhere and build
a module to plug into gpg to support IDEA. It's worked fine since then.

Oh, and my preferred email client is exmh, a tck/tk front-end to MH. Its
support for pgp and gpg is clean and transparent.


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