Subj : FSX_CRY - Cryptographics
To   : Captain Obvious
From : Richard Menedetter
Date : Sun Sep 11 2016 01:49 pm

Hi Captain!

10 Sep 2016 18:50, from Captain Obvious -> All:

 dm>> i never understood this or got into this. how would this be used?
 dm>> what is it?
 CO> I've always been interested in the idea of encryption and pgp but have
 CO> the same questions. What is the practical use of it

Mainly privacy and authentication.
You can make sure that nobody else can read your message, and that the message
is really written by you, and not somebody else.

 CO> and is there a primer somewhere I can look at? As in a Big Dummie's
 CO> Guide.

Well when you type in "gpg guide" in google you get this as the first hits:
https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/guides.html
https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/howtos.html

CU, Ricsi

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