What is Encryption and why do we
need it
"Perhaps you think your E-mail is legitimate enough that encryption
is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing
to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on
postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a
warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide
something? You must be a subversive or a drug dealer if you hide
your mail inside envelopes. Or maybe a paranoid nut. Do law-abiding
citizens have any need to encrypt their E-mail?"
PGP versus
GPG from Slashdot
The primary difference? GPG is a GNU license product, PGP is a commercial
and not free.
http://www.gpg4win.org This is a place where you can get the GNU Privacy Guard software adapted with outlook plugins and accessories for Windows.
http://pgp.mit.edu Site for FAQs, a keyserver, lookup page etc.
http://www.gnupg.org The GNU Privacy Guard
You can get my public keys from http://subkeys.pgp.net or mit above. Here's a
quick link to search results.
http://keyserv.nic-se.se:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=Jameson+Triplett
Firefox has a GPG plug in for its email reader called enigmail that you can use for signing and encrypting emails. That page also contains good instructions for setting it up on your computer.