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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: 34tuforlunch on May 02, 2012, 10:31 am

Title: PGP help needed.
Post by: 34tuforlunch on May 02, 2012, 10:31 am

New vendor here looking to set up PGP, can some one link me to a good pgp tutorial and what exactly is the difference between gpg and pgp?

Title: Re: PGP help needed.
Post by: vlad1m1r on May 02, 2012, 03:43 pm

Quote from: 34tuforlunch on May 02, 2012, 10:31 am

New vendor here looking to set up PGP, can some one link me to a good pgp tutorial and what exactly is the difference between gpg and pgp?

Welcome to SR!

An excellent page for beginners http://www.mccune.cc/PGPpage2.htm

There is no real difference between PGP and GPG for our purposes - GPG is simply a royalty free version of PGP which is unrestricted by patents and can be used in any software.

The easiest version I use is Symantec's Portable PGP (http://ppgp.sourceforge.net/usb.html) - which as the name suggests can be run from a USB stick. I would suggest you encrypt the USB first using a program like Truecrypt.

After reading the guide above you'll probably be familiar with the basic principles and since there are only about five buttons to press with this version of PGP I don't think you'll have any problems generating your own key pair and getting going but any questions please feel free to ask.

Thanks,

V.