PGP
PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
See also:
GNUPG -
a free PGP replacement.
PGP lets you:
- Sign an email message (or any computer file)
- Verify the signature on an email message, security advisory, RPM etc.
- Encrypt a message so that only the intended recipient(s) can read it.
PGP mini-HOWTO
To generate your own key pair (you can have more than one; pick RSA
for backwards compatibility):
To add someone elses key to your keyring:
- From the public keyserver:
- From a local file
- Embedded on a personal webpage:
- pgpk -a http://some.org/user.html
- Embedded in a finger response:
- pgpk -a finger://some.org/user
To list your keyring:
To verify the signature on an RPM package:
- rpm -v --checksig package.rpm
PGP 5 users may require a later/modified version of rpm.
PGP Resources
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