PGP Freeware 7.0.3

Contents

1. Overview
2. Create a key pair and send to a key server
3. Configure other PGP users
4. Send encrypted email using MS Outlook
5. Make your key available on a public server
6. Add public keys from email messages
7. Include your public key in an email message
8. Search for a key
9. Copy keys from one machine to another

Overview

To exchange encrypted information with someone you need a copy of their public key, and they need a copy of your public key. Each person can then decrypt messages using their private key.

PGP can be obtained from www.pgp.com/products/freeware/

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Tom McCune's PGP Questions & Answers

Create a key pair and send to a key server

1. Run PGPkeys | Keys | New Key

2. Enter name and email address.

3. Click Next.

4. Type a passphrase.

5. Send public key to the default key server.

6. Click Finish.

7. A pair of keys icon representing your newly created key pair appears in the PGPkeys window.

Configure other PGP users

1. Start the PGPKeys tool.

2. Type <Ctrl> + f. This will take you to a key searching utility.

3. Search the ldap://keyserver.pgp.com server for user ids which may contain your_company_domain.

4. When the search results are returned, select all the keys shown: <Shift> + down_arrow.

5. Right-click. A pop-up menu appears.

6. Select Import to Local Keyring.

7. Sign each user (including yourself). Right-click on user names, and then select Sign.

8. Make each user trusted by right-clicking on user names, selecting Key Properties, then dragging the Trust scroll bar from Untrusted to Trusted.

   Get signing key from server

Send encrypted email using MS Outlook

From Outlook, pull up PGP options on the menu and verify that "Encrypt new messages by default" is NOT checked.

If you get a message saying the digital ID is missing, you might be clicking on the incorrect Encrypt option. Make sure to encrypt using PGP Encryption rather than something like S/MIME encryption.

If you get a message saying "recipient keys are not valid"

1. Run PGPKeys

2. For each user with an invalid key, select with a right-click.

3. On the pop-up menu select Sign

4. Mark the user then click ok.

5. When prompted, enter your passphrase

6. The user should show up a valid at this point

7. Download signing keys by right-clicking on the user again and selecting:

   Get signing key from server

Make your key available on a public server

1. Connect to the Internet.

2. Start PGPkeys.

3. Select the icon that represents the public key you want to post on the key server.

4. Open the Server menu, then select the key server you want to post on from the Send To submenu

Add public keys from email messages

1. Copy the block of text that represents the public key.

2. Run PGPkeys | Edit | Paste

3. The Select Keys dialog box appears.

4. Click Import. The key is imported.

Include your public key in an email message

1. Start PGPkeys

2. Select your key pair and then click Copy on the Edit menu.

3. Open the editor you use to compose your email messages, place the cursor in the desired area, and then click Paste on the Edit menu. In newer email applications, you can simply drag your key from the PGPkeys window into the text of your email message to transfer the key information.

Search for a key

1. Run:

   PGPkeys | Keys | Search Server

2. Select the location or server you want to search.

3. Enter the search criteria.

4. If a public key is found, add it to your public keyring with a right click, or drag it to the PGPkeys window.

5. In the PGPkeys window, examine it to verify that it is valid.

Copy keys from one machine to another

To transfer your PGP configuration from one computer to another, install PGPon the new computer, but do not generate new keys. Rather, copy pubring.pkr and secring.skr from the old computer to the new computer.

If you are unable to overwrite existing pubring.pkr and secring.skr key files, copy the new keys to a different directory or different name, then set their location by running:

PGP | Options | Files

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