Evolution is an outstanding groupware suite with one of the finest email clients in all of Linux-land. For many users the standard email setup is great. It does everything they need: it sends and receives email (even HTML email if you so desire). But for others a little extra is needed…especially in the form of [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Create, sign, and publish your PGP key with Seahorse
I have espoused encryption on Ghacks plenty of times. I find most users do not employ encryption, of any kind, which is somewhat surprising given the constant rate at which data is stolen. With the help of encryption your data is much safer than it would be in plain text. To deal with encryption you [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Encrypt Thunderbird Email with Enigmail
Sometimes email contains sensitive data which must be encrypted. You can handle this two ways, manually encrypt the data or use an exceptional Thunderbird Extension called Enigmail. This extension uses gpg and makes the encryption/decryption as user-friendly as it gets. With keys installed in Enigmail (either manually or from a keyserver) encrypted email is automatically [...]
Secure your files: An introduction to GnuPG
GnuPG allows you to encrypt data so only the intended recipient, with a key and a password, can decrypt it. It also provides a mechanism for verifying data is from the person who has claimed to send it. GnuPG can also provide a way for you to securely prevent your files from being opened without [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Cryptography Tutorial
This is a very informative site that explains many cryptography concepts. He begins by defining cryptography as “the science of writing in secret code and is an ancient art” and mentions that the first documented use of dates back to 1900 BC Egypt.
After that he explains why cryptography is essential for todays internet communication: “cryptography is necessary when communicating over any untrusted medium, which includes just about any network, particularly the Internet.”