OpenPGP: Signing and Verifying Files
Creating a Detached Signature gpg –verify doc.asc doc Verifying a Detached Signature gpg –armour –output doc.asc –detach-sig doc
Stuart McCulloch Anderson
Creating a Detached Signature gpg –verify doc.asc doc Verifying a Detached Signature gpg –armour –output doc.asc –detach-sig doc
Signing is a very personal thing. You are telling the world you believe a key belongs to the person who is claiming it. The value of a web of trust comes from the fact...
Its May again and the sun has finally made an appearance. With summer comes the regular spring clearing and it seems as good a time as any to update my public encryption keys. My...
How does it work The magic, and I call it magic because I freely admit I do not have the mathematical background to explain it better, of this system is that if you encrypt...
Creating a Secured Key When you build a PGP key you going to start using that key to verify your identity, so like all other forms of identification you have to protect it. Unfortunately...
Why I Digitally Sign My E-Mail Most e-mails I send are digitally signed using a process called “Pretty Good Privacy”, commonly referred to as PGP or GnuPG. PGP has been around since 1991 yet...
OpenGPG establishes trust using the web-of-trust. If I trust you and you trust him, I can probably trust them too. This only works if I can trust you though.
You can’t have enough cheat sheets on the net. Well you probably can, but I still wanted to add my own to the mix. I use the GnuPG command line for almost everything, bar...
Since April 2012 I have held the position of Chairman of The Software Society Ltd. On the 23th of March this year, 2013, it was decided that the board of directors and office bares...