
When you start writing a mail, you will now notice a new OpenPGP button in the
toolbar of the Compose window. This button allows you to sign and/or encrypt
the message. In the bottom right corner, a pen and/or a key icon will be green
lit to signal that, respectively, signing and/or encryption is enabled.
You can immediately send signed mail to anyone. However, in order to allow
someone to verify your signature or to send you an encrypted message, you
must provide him with your public key. You can send your public key as an
attachment by choosing OpenPGP → Attach Public key... in the Compose
window, and then by selecting your key in the Key Selection window that will
appear.
All your stored keys (your own key pair, and other people's public keys you
have acquired) can be seen in the Key Management, via the menu command
OpenPGP → Key Management.
To send encrypted mail, you need to have the public key of the recipient. You
can acquire it in one of the following ways:
• ask him to email you his public key as an attachment; then right-click on
the attachment and choose Import OpenPGP Key;
• download his public key from his web site as an ASC file, then import it
via File → Import Keys From File from Key Management;
• retrieve his public key from a keyserver via Keyserver → Search for keys
from Key Management.
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