PGP stands for "Pretty Good Privacy." PGP is most often used for sending encrypted messages between two people. It works by encrypting a message using a public key that's tied to a specific user; when that user receives the message, they use a private key that's known only to them to...
Once you’ve created your Key Pair, Kleopatra will prompt you to put in the name and email address to associate with this Key Pair. This will create an OpenPGP Certificate, which has details such as the user’s name, email address, and the public key itself. It serves as a way to ...
Choose the key type (RSA), keysize (2048bits), and expiration date (0: no expiration). When prompted for a user ID, type your name (Dan Nanni) and email address (myemail@email.com) to be associated with the private/public keypair. Finally, type a passphrase to protect your private ...
In the next step you need to install an Add-on in Thunderbird, calledENIGMAIL. You can search and install add-on usingTools-> Add-onswizard. Enigmailis an easy to use and handy tool for key management. You can generate public-private key pairs using Kleopatra or Enigmail tool. If you ...
with PGP, and Kleopatra itself can actually encrypt and decrypt files using your keys. If you want to take them for a test run, try encrypting a text file with your public key and decrypting it with your private key. Use the “Sign/Encrypt” and “Decrypt/Verify” options in Kleopatra....