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OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography

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How do I make a PGP key?

How do I make a PGP key? I'd like to have it for signing PPA uploads and such.
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How to share one pgp-key on multiple machines?

How can I export a pgp-key from one machine and import it to another? The only way I figured out (in seahorse) was to import it to the section other keys. But I want to use one single pgp-key from ...
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Lost PGP private key and want to remove it from keyserver.ubuntu.com

Because of an accidental formatting I've lost two private keys(no backup). I've generated a new one but I want to remove the lost ones from the keyserver.
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How to obtain a S/MIME certificate for e-mail encryption?

There are parties, e.g. enterprises, that uses S/MIME certificates for e-mail encryption. To my understanding Thunderbird has support by default for S/MIME. But I have not found a way to obtain a ...
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Are all OpenPGP public key server equal?

An error info occur when to execute apt-get update . W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http:/...
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Fetching Ubuntu's OpenPGP keys for verification fails with "not a key ID: skipping"

I have entered this request into the "Terminal" program, per this documentation gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "8439 38DF 228D 22F7 B374 2BC0 D94A A3F0 EFE2 1092" "C598 6B4F ...
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How do I create a PGP Key Revocation Certificate in Seahorse

I created a PGP Key using Seahorse in Ubuntu's Passwords and Keys (13.04). To my understanding, creating a revocation certificate for the PGP key is important for a couple of reasons. I don't see any ...
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