July 2007
Beginner
347 pages
4h 40m
English
Security is everybody’s business. So read this chapter carefully to learn how you can improve your data security at the command line.
In Chapter 52, “The Key to GnuPG,” we learned how to create public and private keys for GnuPG, the free software version of Phil Zimmerman’s Pretty Good Privacy. The following chapter covered using those keys to send and receive encrypted mail.
In this chapter, we’ll learn how to use those GnuPG keys to create and verify cryptographic signatures. So grab your Secret Decoder rings and hold on tight, Crypto Kiddies: here we go back to the land of personal cryptography!
Signing data allows others to verify two important things: first, that it was you who signed the ...
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