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Cooking with Linux - François, Can You Keep a Secret?

Issue 120

From Issue #120
April 2004

Apr 01, 2004  By Marcel Gagné
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Learn the fundamentals of public key encryption and how to plug the GNU Privacy Guard in to your existing mailer.

Resources

Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG): www.gnupg.org

KMail: kmail.kde.org

Mozilla: www.mozilla.org

Mozilla Enigmail: enigmail.mozdev.org

Ximian Evolution: www.ximian.com/products/evolution

Marcel's Web Site (check out the wine page): www.marcelgagne.com

Marcel Gagné (mggagne@salmar.com) lives in Mississauga, Ontario. He is the author of Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye! (ISBN 0-321-15998-5) from Addison Wesley. His first book is the highly acclaimed Linux System Administration: A User's Guide (ISBN 0-201-71934-7). In real life, he is president of Salmar Consulting, Inc., a systems integration and network consulting firm.

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One you have created your GPG

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/16/2005 - 14:54.

One you have created your GPG have a look at the FREE root signing authority CACERT: http://www.cacert.org

Once you are verified you can get your key signed by them for FREE of course.

They all provide a range of other keys for such as S/MIME, SSL etc.. (all for free).

Re: Cooking with Linux: Francois, Can You Keep a Secret?

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Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/09/2004 - 02:00.

WOW ! Marcel, you really know how to let us get the point. My debian Kmail/KGpg is working seamessly in less than 5min :)

You made my day. Thank you.

Re: Cooking with Linux: Francois, Can You Keep a Secret?

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Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 04/18/2004 - 02:00.

Merci Marcel !

If you want to decode Evolution's signed and encrypted mail in KMail, you can also look at this page:
http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html

This will teach you how to install a kmail plugin to decode PGP-MIME mails (such as Evolution's), and use gpg-agent to remember your passphrase (for a limited amount of time)
With the plugin, you can also send PGP-MIME messages.
Very useful

Re: Cooking with Linux: Francois, Can You Keep a Secret?

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Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 04/18/2004 - 02:00.

By the way, all the software required on this page is available as RPM for Fedora and Mandrake at least, and I'm pretty sure there are Debian packages available too.
Isn't it merveilleux ? ;-)

Aur

Re: Cooking with Linux: Francois, Can You Keep a Secret?

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Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/13/2004 - 02:00.

Needless to say, this is a good article,but i have a question of how do make money with open source.
thank you !

Re: Cooking with Linux: Francois, Can You Keep a Secret?

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Submitted by icarius (not verified) on Wed, 03/24/2004 - 03:00.

Bonjour Marcel, As all your articles, this latest is excellent and is really good to make people realize that now than ever before it is crucial to secure our data since the excesses of western government surveillance infringe our private life. The French government plans to pass a bill that would allow ISPs to read e-mails of their supposed "sensitive" clients.

So I generated a key pair with gnupg and configured a year ago my favourite e-mail client, KMail from the KDE, so that I can encrypt and decrypt "sensitive" e-mails. It worked fine until recently. When I want to sign or decrypt an e-mail, it asks for my passphrase. Until recently everything worked smoothly but now neither KMail nor the KGpg nice utility seems to recognize my passphrase. I changed it and it is still the same. I'm sure the passphrase is right since it works when I encrypt and decrypt files from the console command line. Do you have any clue? I am getting mad checking everything. If you could help me I would be very grateful.

Thanks again for your tremendous work.
Au revoir. Patrick

Re: Cooking with Linux: Francois, Can You Keep a Secret?

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/18/2004 - 03:00.

Merci beaucoup, Monsieur Gagn

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