Very Confusing was Re: Get version of PGP

[John Clizbe]

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Bob wrote:
> 	This all very confusing to me and I would appreciate someone explaining 
> where to begin. I use Mozilla's Thunderbird and
> suppose that Enigimail is what I need? A version is installed which has 
> done nothing but subtract from my available disk
> space (some sort of complaint about my lack of certificate and would I 
> like to learn how(?) now, which does not do a thing after I
> select yes). This shouldn't be difficult, however all the discussion 
> concerning PGP, Gnupg, enigimail, along with the technical
> aspects of PGP have left me in the dust.  I suppose I should mention 
> that my computer is a windows XP (Pro).
> 
> Someones guidance and patience would be most appreciated.
> 
Hello Bob,

It was confusing to most of us in the beginning. Fear not.

The complaint sounds more like a lack of a X.509 certificate which
Thunderbird (or Mozilla / Netscape mail) would use for S/MIME. They are
available free of charge from Thawte (http://www.thawte.com), CAcert
(http://www.cacert.org), and TC Trustcenter (http://www.trustcenter.de).
S/MIME and OpenPGP operate in similar manners, but don't interoperate very
well.

If you would like to use OpenPGP keys with Thunderbird, then Enigmail is
certainly what you need. It requires that you also have a working copy of
GnuPG installed. We've put together a step-by-step How-To specifically for
Windows users (written by Windows users/admins) which is at
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/gpgconf.html. We've also simplified the
installation of Enigmail to only one XPI to install as of 0.89.0.

There is a responsive mailing list for your Enigmail-related queries
(We'll also handle the GnuPG part) at mailto://enigmail@mozdev.org. You
can subscribe at http://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/enigmail/ -
subscription is not mandatory, but it will avoid the delay of waiting for
the moderators.
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