Re: [tlug] Re: Draft: Quickie Guide to GPG

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:38:24PM +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
>Jonathan Q wrote:
>
>> Please tell me about anything you find wrong with it (or right with
>> it), bearing in mind that this is a minimalist document whose
>> sole aim is to tell you what you need to do Right Now to
>> get GPG going, even if you've never heard of it before.  It aims
>> to give you the "what" and let you go find out the "why" for yourself
>> later in the documentation. 
>
>I'd add that you might want to add
>encrypt-to <your pgp key>
>to .gnupg/options, so you can read your own message if you send it
>encrypted to someone else. Otherwise only the recipient can decrypt the
>message.


However, the point of the QND Guide to GPG is                                  
'What you need to do to get GPG going Right Now."  You'll notice                
I don't even say "What you need to know," but just "What you need to            
do."  The GPG manual is very good and very accessible, and the                  
point of the QND is to give a jump start to somebody who has                    
a pressing need to encrypt or sign something, and let them read                 
the docs on their own for the rest.                                             

If I wind up with a 10-page mini-manual, I will have failed.              

The fact that since I posted it the QND to GPG, several people have
been motivated to use it, have succeeded, and have          
gone on to have a very good debate about RFC compliance for MUAs                
using GPG, tells me that I've done a good job of achieving my goal              
on this.      

There will be tweaks to be made here and there, but the guide
is in close to final form, except for also making an HTML version.
For the finer points, I will let people go on to read the
(truly) fine manual for themselves.

But perhaps a little tips-n-tricks section can be compiled, either as
a QND GPG adjunct, or perhaps as a TLUG page.  There is a great deal
of accumulated and often specialized knowledge in TLUG, and
perhaps a series of tips-n-tricks pages might be a good way to help
catalog some of that.

Since I have my hands full right now, with both preparing
to leave Japan and with work on various things (including the
QND GPG), I won't be working on TLUG tips-n-tricks stuff, so I
don't want to volunteer anybody.  However, if anybody feels like
doing it, it could be worthwhile.  TLUG hasn't added much to
the website in a very long time.

Jonathan
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