The Gpg4win Compendium
Secure e-mail and file encryption using GnuPG for Windows
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German Version
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Based on a version by Ute Bahn, Karl Bihlmeier, Manfred J. Heinze, Isabel Kramer und Dr. Francis Wray. Extensively revised by Werner Koch, Florian v. Samson, Emanuel Schütze and Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner. Translated from the German original by Brigitte Hamilton
A publication of the Gpg4win Initiative
Version 3.0.0-beta1 from 31. August 2010
(zuletzt geringfügig korrigiert am 21. September 2010)
- Publisher's details
- About this compendium
- Legend
- Contents
- I For Novices
- 1 Gpg4win - Cryptography for Everyone
- 2 Encrypting e-mails: because the envelope is missing
- 3 How Gpg4win works
- 4 The passphrase
- 5 Two methods, one goal: OpenPGP & S/MIME
- 6 Installing Gpg4win
- 7 Creating a certificate
- 8 Distribution of public certificates
- 9 Decrypting e-mails, practicing for OpenPGP
- 10 Importing a public certificate
- 11 Certificate inspection
- 12 Encrypting e-mails
- 13 Signing e-mails
- 14 Archiving e-mails in an encrypted form
- II For Advanced Users
- 15 Certificate details
- 16 The certificate server
- 17 Encrypting file attachments
- 18 Signing and encrypting files
- 19 Importing and exporting a private certificate
- 20 System-wide configuration and pre-population for S/MIME
- 21 Known problems and help
- 22 Files and settings in Gpg4win
- 23 Detecting problems in Gpg4win programs (log files)
- 24 Why Gpg4win cannot be broken ...
- 25 GnuPG and the mystery of large numbers
- III Annex
- Footnotes