GNU Privacy Guard: HOWTO

Date and Time

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Location

MIT Building 4-370

Presenters

Jerry Feldman , Associate Director , Boston Linux & Unix - gaf blu org

Summary

A general discussion on how to use GNU Privacy Guard

Abstract

The talk will cover a brief history of cryptoraphy focused on the exchanging of information over an insecure medea, such a The Internet. The discussion will include some basic definitions, such as

• What is a key
  
• What is the difference between Public Key methods (non-symmetrical) and Secret key methods (symmetrical)
  
• What is a Digital Signature
  
• What is clearsign vs. MIME encoded signatures
  
• And a few more…
  

The last half of the talk will focus on how to use GnuPG on Linux to generate your own key pair, exchange keys with others, signing others keys, validate someone else's digital signature, revoking a key or a signature.