Getting PGP

[Graham Todd]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:28:06 -0700 (PDT)
Yoji Atsumi <yoji.atsumi at yahoo.com> wrote:

>     I do not have Seahorse installed I do not think. I am having 
> problems I think because the only help is a man page. And I have no
> idea what the system is doing most of the time. I thought I was
> getting it to put the public key into a file but it failed. I can't
> figure out why.
> 
>     If you know of any good help for this version please pass it
> along.
> 
> 
> 73 Karl
[snipped]

First of all, let me add my tuppence-worth. PGP and GPG both follow the
OpenPGP standard, but PGP is developed wholly as a proprietary product
without the command line, on the Windows platform.

PGP has some "extras" I understand which fall outside the OpenPGP
standard, whereas GPG is totally OpenPGP standards compliant.  I
believe the last version of PGP to have a cli component was PGP 6.x.x,
so if it comes up in the repositories, stay away from it - the latest
version of GPG is both much more secure and stronger in its
cryptography.

Secondly, as a place to go to get help with GPG, I'd look to the
PGP-Basics yahoogroup.  Its very Windows-centric but as GPG can be used
in Windows, there are a number of excellent documents on site, and of
course people to "hold your hand" through complex matters.  Or there
used to be (I am no longer a Moderator there, but some people there
were professional security experts).  You can find it at:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PGP-Basics/

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Graham Todd