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PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy and is a standard 
system to either digitally sign a e-mail message 
or fully encrypt a e-mail and it's attachments.  
It's easy to use and VERY secure.



Anyway.. first you need to get the PGP software.  You 
can get the PGP v5.5 plugin for Outlook or Eudora at 
http://www.nai.com/products/security/pgp_per.asp
You can also get the freeware PGP program there
(PC & Mac) and just cut and paste the output to your
favorite e-mail application, etc.

After installing PGP, you'll need to create your
PGP private key.  This is similar to your email
password in terms of keeping it secret but you 
should NEVER give this away.  

Go ahead and run the PGP program and create a 
private key.  You will be asked for a password that 
is strong (containing upper and lower case 
characters with numbers) that you can remember.  
DON'T USE your common e-mail, root, administrator 
passwords.  You really should come up with one JUST 
for PGP.  

After that, it will ask you to register your key
with a PGP key holder.  If you aren't behind a
firewall, this should work fine as long as you are
already on-line to the Internet.  If you don't want
to do this, just skip it since it is NOT critical.  
Now, goto Edit-->Copy.  This will put your
Public key into the clipboard.  Now go back 
to Outlook, create an e-mail to me and in the 
text area of the e-mail, hit edit->paste.  
After that.. I'll have your public key.  Go ahead 
and also send that public key to all the other 
people that you want to do PGP with.

Once I have your public PGP key, I'll send you
mine.  Once you get my public key, you need to
add it to your "PGP key chain".  To do this, 
run PGP or in Outlook click on the "Two Keys" 
icon.  PGP should then automatically import my 
key into your key chain.

Here is a little more info:

If the PGP plugin is like Eudora's, you
will have a few buttons added to the toolbar.

	Two keys:  This is the PGP program itself.
		    You will only need to run this
		    for creating new private keys
		    and importing new public keys

	PGP/MIME:  This is to use PGP but I can't
		    figure out what you need this
		    button for.

	Envelope:  Press this to ENCRYPT a e-mail
	with a     message.  You will use this
	magnet on  a lot.
	it

	Paper w/:  Press this to SIGN a e-mail.
	a quill    This makes PGP read your message
	pen        and do a MD5 hash or CRC check
		    on the whole message including
		    the headers and encrypts your
		    public key with the hash and
		    puts the results at the bottom
		    of the message.  So, with this
		    footer message, other people with
		    your public key can verify that
		    this message did come from you
		    and was not altered in any 
		    fashion.


So, once you have sent me your public key and you
have mine, open up a new e-mail to me and put
something in the subject and text area.  Now, 
click on the "Envelope w/ magnet" button and
then send the message.  PGP will pop up and
it should highlight my PGP public key.  If you
send a PGP e-mail to multiple people then ALL 
of those user's public PGP keys need to be
highlighted.  Anyway.. once my public key is
selected, click "OK", it will encrypt it and
put it in the outgoing queue.  Now.. just send
it and I should get it.  

Lemmie know if you need more help.


Ps.  Check out a cool (somewhat techincal) PGP 
signing and encryption flow chart I came up with, at:

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/SECURITY/how-pgp-works.jpg



Pps.  Be warned, OutLook98 is NOT 100% compatible 
with standard SMTP servers.  This "feature" will 
be fixed in a future patch.  The problem revolves 
around the fact that Outlook98 doesn't use the 
RFC standard "FROM:" header field. Losers..

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