Operational PGP

A practical guide about doing secure email the right way with PGP. I did not write this guide. Credits to the author grugq. Original source. In case this guide goes missing in the future, wanted to preserve it for my own future reference. Operational PGP This is a guide on how to email securely. There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level. ...

February 20, 2017 · 8 min

NeoMutt setup (2022 edition)

Intro Getting started with mutt 2022 setup cron GPG crypto Address book integration pam-gnupg Intro If you haven’t heard of mutt you’re missing out. Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for UNIX operating systems It’s a command line based mail reader (MUA). The neomutt project is a contemporary fork of the original mutt with added features, patch sets and fixes. I started seriously using mutt as my full-time mail client in 2012. I found its simplicity refreshing. It quickly became apparent how much useless baggage modern graphical mail clients (e.g., thunderbird, outlook, etc) actually bog you down with, not to mention the harrowing way they actually encode mail. Its taken me a long time to appreciate this: ...

August 18, 2012 · 6 min