[H-GEN] PGP setup for home users

[Stuart Longland]

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Trent WADDINGTON wrote:

| I don't know if this is relevant, but I notice that Mozilla mail has some
| signing/encryption stuff built in, has anyone used this?

You can use OpenPGP through the Enigmail plugin --
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/.  This is a plugin that talks to the GnuPG
binary on the users computer.  Although, considering the people in
question may not be computer literate, I wouldn't recommend this as an
optimal solution.

There's a similar plugin for Outlook (*/me shudders* hate outlook but
others don't see the light) although I haven't looked into how it works.

Another possibility is used a SSL-encrypted IRC server.  This would
allow for realtime chatting about problems in reasonable privacy.
Bahamut <http://bahamut.dal.net> is one that's susposed to support this
although I've never tried setting the SSL part up (I've only configured
the basics).

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| Stuart Longland           stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org |
| Brisbane Mesh Node: 719             http://stuartl.cjb.net/ |
| I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere |
| Griffith Student No:           Course: Bachelor/IT (Nathan) |
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