On Friday 08 November 2019 23:52:03 deloptes wrote:

William Morder via trinity-users wrote:

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I myself would like to get a thread started about email encryption, as I've mucked around with it, but never have managed both to send and receive with anybody else; either I don't do it right, or they can't manage it on their end. But it would be nice to get a grasp of the fundamentals on crypto, so anybody who wants to get a TDE crypto thread going, I am in.

Perhaps we write a howto in the TDE Wiki. I'm using it since 10+y w/o issue.

Important is to setup the keys in kgpg and the sign/encrypt and decrypt functionality in kmail.

There is always these two encrypt and decrypt. For the encryption you need the private key. 1-2y ago I provided pinentry-tqt. I don't think it got into the mainstream yet. Otherwise you have to use some other pinentry (gnome,kde, terminal). This is setup in the gpg-agent config.

So presumably your key is setup correctly in kgpg and kmail

First you verify the key you want to encrypt for in kgpg and trust it (it becomes green), then you can use this email adress (gpg identity) for encrypting mails.

I even sign these messages from time to time as others do.

regards

Thanks so much. I will try to follow your steps and get myself set up. Thus far I have been held back by having email correspondents who know less than I about crypto (!), and yet see no especial need to use it themselves; so exchanging emails with them is almost totally useless.

This is a start. It would be good for all of us to learn, as in the future it will only become more necessary, rather than less.

Bill