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PGP & GPG
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PGP & GPG

by Michael W. Lucas
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
6h 28m
English
No Starch Press
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Installing GnuPG 57
trustdb.gpg
Your trust database
gpg.conf
Your GnuPG configuration
The only one of these files that you need to be at all con-
cerned with right now is gpg.conf (the rest of the files are
discussed in Chapter 7). The gpg.conf file is where you store
any local options for using GnuPG. (We’ll discuss various
options that you might set throughout the book.)
gpg.conf
If gpg.conf doesn’t exist in your GnuPG home directory, go
ahead and create it. (On a Windows system, be sure to use
a text editor such as Notepad, not a word processor such as
Microsoft Word.)
The gpg.conf file contains a number of variables, and each
variable name is followed ...
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