
8
OPENPGP AND EMAIL
Learning how OpenPGP works
and how to use it to manage
your keyring has just been a
warm-up to the real meat of this
book: using OpenPGP with email.
Both PGP and GnuPG extend mail programs to include
OpenPGP functions. As you’ll soon see, OpenPGP operations
in all mail programs are very similar after you learn where your
particular client puts the “encrypt” and “sign” buttons. After
you can use one OpenPGP program with a particular email
client, you can extend that knowledge to cover other email
clients.
Back in Chapter 1, we had a table that listed all the actions
you could perform with OpenPGP. That was before you knew ...