[clue] gpg applications.

[Vishal Verma]

Signing emails (or encrypting as required) is one thing I use mine
frequently for. Evolution integrated well with it - you just provide
your key fingerprint into the mail account settings, and you can
simply choose sign/encrypt any message in the compose window (you'll
need to have downloaded public keys of all recipients).

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:11 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> Anyone have any apps they use somewhat regularly with gpg keys? Seems like I get motivated to do
> gpg, create a key, and then never use it again.
>
> If I were a Debian developer I'd sign packages to upload. But I'm not.
>
> I guess git commits can be signed. But I don't use any repositories that do that (except perhaps
> propellor in the near future, which is what brings it to mind).
>
> Oh, I might have a cert I got from StartSSL. At the moment it's good for logging into their system
> to get to some web server certs I use. I'm not sure it can be used with gpg though, just with things
> that want a CA signed cert.
>
> What else?
>
> I use SSH keys regularly, to access all my machines, and at work to access machines, do git
> push/pull, and to use SFTP.
>
> Maybe I should figure out how to use a gpg key with SSH. (It looks like that might be really easy
> with gpg 2.1. Wow it took a long time to get there.)
>
> <tangent>
> At work we have servers that can generate X.509 and PGP key pairs. The private keys get used
> entirely within the server and no one gets to see them.
>
> The PGP keys are used to decrypt files people send us, when they want the files encrypted.
>
> I don't think the X.509 certificates ever get used. But it happens that the page that shows the cert
> also shows the public key in SSH2 format. So we use that when the server needs to authenticate an
> SFTP connection. And we usually have to convert it to OpenSSH format because that's all anyone uses
> and the people who install the public keys don't know how to do it.
> </tangent>
>
> Maybe between propellor and ssh I'll get good enough at gpg to actually have a key worth sharing.
>
> Dave
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