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If you choose not to sign in step 2, you won’t see this screen. If you have more than one identity, you can choose which one you wish to use for signing.For the purpose of this tutorial, we will send the file to ourselves. Select the recipients you want to encrypt the file for, and ‘Add’ to the list.Check that the file save paths are where you want them, and that the ‘Sign and Encrypt (OpenPGP only’) radio button is selected.To encrypt a file or folder, right-click on it, and select ‘Sign and Encrypt’.You can now encrypt any file or folder, so that it can be sent to a recipient of your choice.

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You will also need to provide the intended recipients with password you specified in step 2. The recipient should ‘Import’ this key in their instance of GPA (or Import Certificates’ if using Kleopatra).

Share your public key – this can be done by simply emailing it to whoever you want to send encrypted mail to.

If you look in the folder you will now see a key pair – your encrypted key (to be kept secret) and your public key (to share). We saved it to our ‘Encryption keys’ folder. In GPA select the key you have just generated, click on ‘Export’, choose a name for the public key, a folder to save it to, and click ‘Save’.

You now need to generate a public key, so that others can decrypt files you that encrypt with your private key.

Congratulations! You now have your first key.

We are going to save the key in a folder called ‘Encryption keys’. It is important to use the same email address that you will be sending your encrypted email from, and the password is important as the recipient will need it to decrypt your files.

Simply follow the Wizard, inputting your name and email address (which are used to build the key), the password you want to use, and where you want to save the key.

To do this, fire up GPA and it will helpfully offer to generate a private key for you.

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When you first install Gpg4win you are offered very little in the way of clues about how to proceed, so the first thing you should do is generate a key pair.

We’re going to be using GPA and Claw-Mail for this tutorial, so make sure you select them when given the option.

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Download Gpg4win from the website, and install it (requires a reboot).

Claw-Mail – a lightweight email program with GnuPG support built-in.

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GPGEX – an extension for Windows Explorer.Gpg4win is the Windows version of GnuPG, and is really a suite of utilities held together by a common installer script. The GnuPG website provides lots of support, but much of it is highly technical and not newbie-friendly. Public key – distributed so that others can use it to encrypt mail for sending to you.Private key – kept secret and used to decrypt own mail.They also have a public key, which they freely distribute so that other people can use it to send them encrypted mail. With public-key cryptography, each user has a private key, which they keep secret and use to decrypt emails sent to them using their public key. If all this sounds complicated, that’s because it is! However, once you get your head around the key concepts, it all becomes much clearer. These keys can then be exchanged with other users, and users may add a digital signature to verify the identity of the sender and the message’s integrity. GnuPG works by encrypting messages using asymmetric key pairs generated by individual GnuPG users.

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Developed by the Free Software Foundation, GnuPG is free, open-source and completely compatible with PGP, using a full implementation of the OpenPGP standard ( RFC 4880). Gnu Privacy Guard (also known as GnuPG or just GPG) is an open-source clone of the highly popular email encryption program Pretty Good Privacy (which is now commercially available from Symantec). This ‘how-to’ guide is aimed at making the process clearer, providing step-by-step instructions for setting PGP in Windows. However, the concepts involved are complex and often confusing a problem compounded by the fact that setting up PGP encrypted email is unintuitive and poorly explained in existing documentation. The best way to keep your private email private is to use PGP encryption.