> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of john boris > > I am trying to create a PGP certificate using Kleopatra in Windows. I got the > Public key created but when I went to send it to the server I get a window > that says I should create a revoction certificate but the software doesn't > tell > you how to create this certificate and what I found using Google was of no > help. Anyone on the list have a pointer to a good help document on this.
I know this isn't what you asked for - but if you haven't at least considered it, please consider it. ;-) For most people in most purposes, SSL is easier to use and understand than PGP. I acknowledge that in SSL, you must accept a "trust" relationship with external entities such as Thawte and Verisign, etc, and if any of those get compromised, it creates a security hole. But as long as you feel you can accept that trust relationship, then it's as good or better than PGP. This is the same trust relationship, by the way, that you use when you connect to your bank or make any purchases online, or anything else via https://, so when people claim they don't trust any certificate authority, very rarely does it actually stand up to any scrutiny. The only situation where I see PGP as being better than SSL is when you can't accept the certificate authorities as trustworthy, because you're trying to hide something from the government (good luck with that) or if you just need to b ecome compatible with your friends who are already using PGP. In PGP, you have to perform manual identity verification, rather than using the central authority. Even if you accept a keyring from your friend, you have to manually verify your friend, who's doing the same job as a certificate authority. Chances are, you're not asking your friend precisely what documented process of verification they followed on all these other people... If what you want is email encryption, I've written some simple guides here. I almost always recommend this instead of PGP. Because of simplicity. http://nedharvey.com/blog/?p=125 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
