OpenPGP: Signing and Verifying Files
Creating a Detached Signature Verifying a Detached Signature
read more »OpenPGP: How I Sign Keys
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 you are willing to put your reputation behind this assertion. Everyone will treat signing differently. Some may feel bumping into someone […]
read more »OpenPGP: My Keys
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 previous keys were cryptographically less secure, 2048-bit compared to 4096-bits. I have also learnt allot more about best practices when managing […]
read more »OpenPGP: How does PGP work?
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 something using the Public-key only the Private-key can decrypt it and vice versa. So there is no way for someone holding […]
read more »OpenPGP: How do I create a OpenPGP Key?
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 to make PGP usable you cant permanently store you private keys locked in a safe, you actually need a copy of […]
read more »OpenPGP: Encryption should be easier than this
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 still is not commonly supported by the majority of email clients, at least in the Microsoft echo system, or webmail applications […]
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Automatically generate GPG revocation certificates
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.
read more »OpenPGP: GPG Cheat Sheet
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 actually sending email so this is a nice little reminder to myself what I’m doing Creating a new Key First steps […]
read more »OpenPGP: Key Signing Policy
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 (Chairman, Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer) should all create an use OpenPGP keys for all official business. It was also […]
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