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Easy Email Encryption Guide

I have repeatedly told my friends and family that securing their email is the second step in securing your electronic communications, the first being to start using a privacy-aware search engine. This usually falls on concerned but overwhelmed ears. It seems hard to encrypt email. In reality, it is easy,

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Updated GPG/PGP Keys

If you aren't using PGP encrypted email, then you're a bad, bad person. :-) I've recently issued out new PGP keys to replace my expired ones. You can find them at the following link, as well as on public keyservers that tend to get traffic: http://files.sacrideo.us/arcfide-pgp.

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Kmail and GnuPG

There seems to be a bit of a problem with the way that Kmail and GnuPG interact that is somewhat confusing. If you do not have gpg-agent running by default, then Kmail will just tell you that it could not do anything when you try to sign or encrypt a