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| PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael W Lucas
Publisher: No Starch Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 364361
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1593270712
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.692
EAN: 9781593270711
ASIN: 1593270712
Publication Date: April 1, 2006
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OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard in the world. It is based on PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) as originally developed by Phil Zimmermann. The OpenPGP protocol defines standard formats for encrypted messages, signatures, and certificates for exchanging public keys. PGP & GPG is an easy-to read, informal tutorial for implementing electronic privacy on the cheap using the standard tools of the email privacy field - commercial PGP and non-commercial GnuPG (GPG). The book shows how to integrate these OpenPGP implementations into the most common email clients and how to use PGP and GPG in daily email correspondence to both send and receive encrypted email. The PGP & GPG book is written for the moderately skilled computer user who is unfamiliar with public key cryptography but who is nevertheless interested in guarding their email privacy. Lucas's trademark informal and relaxed tone makes public key cryptography as simple and clear as possible, so that any reasonably savvy computer user can understand it.
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 Great Start Guide for PGP & GPG Encryption June 24, 2008
This is a great book if you want to understand the history and background of email encryption and a good place to get started on PGP & GPG email. A good overview is great if you need to explain the importance to a client.
 Good as an introduction, but nothing more June 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a concise introduction to email encryption for people who don't care about prime numbers. It nicely covers all real-life topics users of PGP and GPG are likely to be interested in. Two problems: First, there is a substantial number of typos, as if the book had never been proofread. There is a significant error in chapter 4 -- if you follow the instructions for generating new keys using the command-line (Unix) version of GPG, you will end up with un-usable keys (without subkeys). Accept all default values and you will have no problems. Second, since the book covers several specific versions of PGP and GPG, the user of any specific version will only use 50% of the book at best (and the book is a slim one to start with). As a result, this book should be considered as a basic introduction only, to be read once and never looked at again.
 An excellent way to protect your information. February 19, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent reference of cryptography. It combines PGP and GPG, two very interesting software to information security.
The essential guide to Open PGP for email October 16, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Pretty Good Privacy and Phil Zimmerman are computer counterculture legends. By putting secure communication into the hands of anyone with a computer, Zimmerman both launched a revolution and stirred the ire of the U.S. government. After suffering under -- and prevailing over -- severe FBI harassment and malicious prosecution, Zimmerman and his open PGP encryption tool have demolished government attempts to control cryptography. After sixteen years, PGP still has no equal as an enabler of private communication.
This book focuses on the use of PGP as an email encryption tool, although PGP can be used as a general purpose file encryption utility as well. After summarizing the history of PGP and the Open PGP standard, author Michael Lucas clearly and concisely describes how public key encryption with Open PGP can secure routine email messages. This is a how-to guide that gives you the essential understanding you need to quickly make practical use of PGP and its non-commercial cousin Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG).
Lucas' exposition explains PGP better than any previously published treatment -- either in print or online -- I've read. If you need to encrypt, you need to encrypt with PGP. Which means you need this book.
Great book for intro to PGP and related crypto October 15, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent beginning tutorial on PGP and related technologies. Author writes well, clearly, and with just enough humor (not over done). I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in PGP, GnuPGP, or any of the related technologies.
I'm a 10-year crypto hobbyist, and although I didn't learn much new, I wish I had this book when I started out. And it will be the book I recommend to friends and family interested in email and file crypto.
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