Category: OpenPGP

iPGMail - Email Encryption on your iOS Device

Although there does not appear to be as well-integrated an approach to email encryption on iPhone as there is for Android in K9/APG, there is a fully functional approach which is relatively simple to setup. Unfortunately this is a paid app (iPGMail - $1.99) but it seems to be the...

Privacy on Android: Importing a Public Key from a Keyserver with APG

Now that you've set up APG and K9 to allow you to send and receive encrypted and signed emails from your Android phone, you've probably found that you need to import OpenPGP keys. Fortunately, if the keys you need can be found on keyservers, APG can download and import them...

Privacy on Android: Using the K9 Email Client with Encryption

This post is the second in the series on using OpenPG to sign and/or encrypt emails on Android. This guide covers the setup of the K9 email client on Android for use with APG in order to encrypt and sign emails with OpenPGP. It also covers other basic options in...

Privacy on Android: Installing and Configuring APG

This post is the first in the series on use OpenPG to sign and/or encrypt emails on Android. In this post, the OpenPGP key manager for Android, APG, is installed and configured. To follow all of the steps in this guide, you need to have a public and private OpenPGP...

Installing and Configuring Enigmail on Thunderbird

This article covers how to configure Enigmail for Thunderbird, and is part of a series in communications security. This post requires GnuPG to be setup beforehand. **Installing and Basic Configuration of Enigmail** Start by installing Enigmail on Thunderbird. If you are using 32 bit Linux you can either search in...

Moving Encryption Keys Between Devices

This article covers how to move your OpenPGP key between computers, and is part of a series in communications security. The specifics cover moving between Linux computers using GnuPG, although many of the steps will apply to Windows running GnuPG (the main difference should be locating the location of the...

Uploading Your Public Key to a Key Server

This article covers how to upload your OpenPGP public key to a key server, and is part of a series in communications security. This post follows [Generating GnuPG Keys](/generating-gnugp-keys.html) **A Note On Key IDs** Any time you see "keyid" in a command, you can use the key id ([Finding Your...

Generating GnuGP Keys

This article covers how to generate keys in GnuPG, and is part of a series in communications security. **Note on Exiting** If at any point after you've finished running a command or a set of commands in GnuPG, you are still within the GPG shell (for example, if you enter...

Finding Your GnuPG Key Id

This article covers how to find the key ID in GnuPG, and is part of a series in communications security. GnuPG Provides a unique identifier for each key, which you can see when you list keys. In order to list your keys, run the command `gpg --list-keys` At the top...