Encryption with gpg GPG is a secure and robust encryption system
used for documents and emails. It's very configurable and it's
free. Use to encrypt and decrypt data including email. It comes
as standard package with all of the Blag ditros. Here follows a
brief guide to setting up gnupg on your box and configuring
Thunderbird to work with it. BACKGROUND AND PREPARATION Gnugpg
should be installed on your machine as it's comes with BLAG. It
is recommended to update all packages and the system. Go gui
with synaptic or go command line. step 1. Update all packages on
the system step 2. Check the package version step 3. Create a
directory for gpg sometimes the package does not create it's own
dir for its's files. This bug has been hightlighted by others,
(google on this if you need to, but this step overcomes the
bug). In the meantime create a directory. cd ~/ && mkdir .gnupg
Switch to user root and give your regular user ownership and
directory of the new dir. sudo su chowm [regular user] -vR
.gnugp && chgrp -vR [