PGP & GPG

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THE WEB OF TRUST

Now that you have your own

personal keypair and have pub-

licized your public key, you’re

ready to read any encrypted mes-

sages intended for you, and other people

can verify that messages you send are actu-

ally from you. That’s only half the process

of confidential communication, however;

you also need to be able to send people

messages that only they can read and you

need to be able to verify that messages

from other people are actually from them. These tasks

require other people’s public keys. Public keys allow you to

build your own personal Web of Trust and verify the identity

of any OpenPGP user.

To begin, you must be comfortable ...