[TriLUG] Key signings, keys ... ?

Thunder Bear thunderbear at yonderway.com
Fri May 24 08:12:51 EDT 2002


On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 07:42, Mike Helms wrote:

> What exactly is a GPG key?  I know what PGP is, and the horrendously long
> key that comes with it.  I suspect that GPG is something different.

GPG (or gnupg) is Gnu Privacy Guard.  It's the GPL'd implementation of
PGP.

And yes, you get those horrendously long public keys that come with it.

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

mQGiBDxBLBYRBADCzHlA52iIZlyLFCrYWxBOKwyY+WYo2U7fSMtjcxXfMiZWR7aK
qxUQ82p8yd7lFDJDqsrlsFZ3fJMehG14KQzhdigSyvacm36rgu9S6lGXXphvWWJk
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=k8lK
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

> And for those who may ask, I did several google searches on GPG.  Even for a
> veteran net user like myself, information about this secretive technology
> was scarce at best.

GPG is an abbreviation.  "gnupg" will get you more.

Check this out: http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?links=1

That ought to tell you everything you need to know.

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