https://www.bencode.io/categories/security/ Recent content in Security on Benny Simmonds Hugo -- 0.149.1 en-us Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:19:50 +0000 https://www.bencode.io/posts/gpg/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:16:07 +0000 https://www.bencode.io/posts/gpg/ <p>This semester I have enrolled in a <a href="http://www.canberra.edu.au/courses/index.cfm?action=detail&amp;subjectid=6697&amp;year=2008">security unit</a> at my local University. Before we get into the mechanics of modern security techniques (mathematical theory, ciphers, protocols, hashing, Kerberos), the first lecture kicked off with a gentle overview of PKI and the basics of using the <a href="http://gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a>, aka GnuPG or GPG for short. In short it is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard.</p> <p>Generate a key pair:</p>