[NBLUG/talk] GPG on Windows?

Lincoln Peters sampln at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 21 07:56:03 PST 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 23:36 -0800, Andrew wrote:
> > I'd like to send a file to a friend in the most secure way
> > possible. I'm thinking that the best way to do this from
> > Linux-to-Linux would be using GPG, but what would be the best
> > way to do this from Linux-to-Windows?
> > 
> > It looks like Windows Privacy Tools
> > <http://winpt.sourceforge.net/en/> would do the trick,
> [snip]
> 
> Haven't used WinPT, but what about Thunderbird with Enigmail? 

It might work, but wouldn't it require switching e-mail programs? I'm
not sure if that would be feasible, at least in this case (for one
thing, it would have to work with Yahoo! Mail).

> Or
> a bootable Linux CD that includes GPG?

I'm sure that this would work, but it would be a bit scary for a typical
Windows user with little or no experience with other operating systems
(aside from the occasional Macintosh).

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Lincoln Peters
<sampln at sbcglobal.net>

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