Re: GnuPG/OpenPGP primer?

["Don Levey-7" <user=51@nabble.blu.org>]

 Derek Martin wrote: 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:53:26AM -0400, 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? 
> 
> http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/faqs.en.html
> 
> I believe that answers all the questions you have.  The GNUPG manual 
> also goes into some detail about many of those topics...   
>