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Hola Everyone. With the recent talk about PGP and the growing need for its use at my company I have been trying to learn about it. I am having a mental roadblock with it's usage though. I understand how encryption works but I can't seem get through a few of the basics. How do I get my Key(s), how do I encrypt and and send things encrypted (email, zip's, etc.) I am getting closer by playing around with the tools I have but how do I know what are trusted sources. For instance, my company has a PGP Key server with the Symantec PGP Desktop application. For what ever reason 64 bit windows is having a lot of trouble with the application so I decided to look else where and check out some open source tools. I came across GNUPG.org, downloaded the windows version and have created a key. So now I have my PGP Fingerprint (if I understand correctly that is my shared key so you can open my files). Do I then need to get the public key from the "Trusted Sender" in order to open anything they send? (I realize this is a windows app I am talking about specifically, but the functionality of encrypting sending and receiving files should be universal). Suggestions for good apps to run on linux machine? Are there separate applications/plug-ins I can download for email clients?
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