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5c207a4d 41 <h1>Email Self-Defense</h1>
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46 <p>Email Self-Defense is a project of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF works to secure freedom for computer users by promoting the development and use of free (as in freedom) software and documentation.</p><p>We have big plans to get it in the hands of people under bulk surveillance all over the world, and make more tools like it. Can you make a donation to help us achieve that goal?</p>
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63 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Guide Introduction ~~~~~~~~~ -->
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67 <a class="text-link" href="infographic.html">View &amp; share our infographic &rarr;</a>
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68 </p>
69 <p>The goal of this guide is to make it easy to set up email encryption on your computer. Once you've finished, you'll be able to send and receive emails that are coded to make sure that a surveillance agent or thief can't intercept your email and read it. </p>
70 <!--<p>You'll also be able to sign emails to show reliably that they are from you. Though the need for signing may be less obvious, you'll actually do it more often.</p>-->
71 <p>All you need is a computer with an Internet connection, an email account and about half an hour. You can use your existing email account for this without affecting it.</p>
f584fc69 72 <p>This guide relies on software which is freely licensed; it's completely transparent and anyone can copy it or make their own version. This makes it safer from surveillance than proprietary software (like Windows). Learn more about free software at <a href="https://u.fsf.org/ys">fsf.org</a>.</p>
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77 </header><!-- End #header -->
78
2cb815ae 79<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 1: Get the pieces ~~~~~~~~~ -->
6c495e2d 80 <section class="row" id="section1">
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5c207a4d 82 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ section introduction: interspersed text ~~~~~~~~~ -->
2378bdbf 83 <div class="section-intro">
2378bdbf 84 <h2><em>#1</em> Get the pieces</h2>
5bf128a4 85 <p>Most GNU/Linux operating systems come with GnuPG installed on them, so you don't have to get it. Before starting though, you'll need any one of these desktop email programs installed on your computer: <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Icedove">Icedove</a> (for Debian GNU/Linux) or Thunderbird (for other GNU/Linux flavors). Email programs are another way to access the same email accounts you can access in a browser (like GMail), but provide extra features.</p>
51e4bd25 86 <p>If you are already have one of these, you can skip to <a href="#step-1b">Step 1.b</a>.</p>
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2378bdbf 90 <div id="step-1a" class="step">
2cb815ae 91 <div class="sidebar">
ba2db35a 92 <p><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/screenshots/step1a-install-wizard.png" alt="Step 1.A: Install Wizard" /></p>
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2378bdbf 94 <div class="main">
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95 <h3><em>Step 1.a</em> Set your email program up with your email account (if it isn't already)</h3>
96 <p>Open your email program and follow the wizard that sets it up with your email account.</p>
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98 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
99 <div class="troubleshooting">
100 <h4>Troubleshooting</h4>
101 <dl>
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102 <dt>What's a wizard?</dt>
103 <dd>A wizard is a series of windows that pop up to make it easy to get something done on a computer, like installing a program. You click through it, selecting options as you go.</dd>
2cb815ae 104 <dt>My email program can't find my account or isn't downloading my mail?</dt>
51e4bd25 105 <dd>Before Googling, we recommend you start by asking other people who use your email system, to figure out the correct settings.</dd>
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106 <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
107 <dd class="feedback">Please let us know on the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback page</a>.</dd>
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f44dd62f 115 <div id="step-1b" class="step">
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f44dd62f 117 <ul class="images">
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118 <li><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/screenshots/step1b-01-tools-addons.png" alt="Step 1.B: Tools -> Add-ons" /></li>
119 <li><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/screenshots/step1b-02-search.png" alt="Step 1.B: Search Add-ons" /></li>
120 <li><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/screenshots/step1b-03-install.png" alt="Step 1.B: Install Add-ons" /></li>
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124 <div class="main">
125 <h3><em>Step 1.b</em> Install the Enigmail plugin for your email program</h3>
126 <p>In your email program's menu, select Add-ons (it may be in the Tools section). Make sure Extensions is selected on the left. Do you see Enigmail? if so, skip this step.</p>
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127 <p>If not, search "Enigmail" with the search bar in the upper right. You can take it from here. Restart your email program when you're done.</p>
128 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
129 <div class="troubleshooting">
130 <h4>Troubleshooting</h4>
131 <dl>
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132 <dt>I can't find the menu.</dt>
133 <dd>In many new email programs, the main menu is represented by an image of three stacked horizontal bars.</dd>
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135 <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
136 <dd class="feedback">Please let us know on the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback page</a>.</dd>
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137 </dl>
138 </div><!-- /.troubleshooting -->
139 </div><!-- End .main -->
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6c495e2d 142 </section><!-- End #section1 -->
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2cb815ae 144<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 2: Make your keys ~~~~~~~~~ -->
6c495e2d 145 <section class="row" id="section2">
bdf319c4 146 <div>
5c207a4d 147 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ section introduction: interspersed text ~~~~~~~~~ -->
2378bdbf 148 <div class="section-intro">
bdf319c4 149 <h2><em>#2</em> Make your keys</h2>
2378bdbf 150 <p>To use the GnuPG system, you'll need a public key and a private key (known together as a keypair). Each is a long string of randomly generated numbers that are unique to you. Your public and private keys are linked together by a special mathematical function.</p>
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154 <div id="step-2a" class="step">
155 <div class="sidebar">
1a7754f4 156 <p><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/screenshots/step2a-01-make-keypair.png" alt="Step 2.A: Make a Keypair" /></p>
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158 <div class="main">
159 <h3><em>Step 2.a</em> Make a keypair</h3>
1a7754f4 160 <p>In your email program's menu, select OpenPGP &rarr; Setup Wizard. You don't need to read the text in the window that pops up unless you'd like to, but it's good to read the text on the later screens of the wizard.</p>
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161 <p>On the second screen, titled "Signing," select "No, I want to create per-recipient rules for emails that need to be signed."</p>
162 <p>Use the default options until you reach the screen titled "Create Key".</p>
163 <p>On the screen titled "Create Key," pick a strong password! Your password should be at least 8 characters and include at least one lower case and upper case letter and at least one punctuation mark. Don't forget it, or all this work will be wasted!</p>
164 <p>The program will take a little while to finish the next step, the "Key Creation" screen. While you wait, do something else with your computer, like watching a movie or browsing the Web. The more you use the computer at this point, the faster the key creation will go.</p>
1a7754f4 165 <p>When the OpenPGP Confirm screen pops up, select Generate Certificate and choose to save it in a safe place on your computer (we recommend making a folder called "Revocation Certificate" in your home folder and keeping it there. You'll learn more about the revocation certificate in <a href="#section5">Section 5</a>. The setup wizard will ask you to move it onto an external device, but that isn't necessary at this moment.</p>
2378bdbf 166 <p class="highlight">After creating your key, the Enigmail set-up wizard automatically uploaded it to a keyserver, an online computer that makes everyone's keys available through the Internet.</p>
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168 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
169 <div class="troubleshooting">
170 <h4>Troubleshooting</h4>
171 <dl>
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172 <dt>I can't find the OpenPGP menu.</dt>
173 <dd>In many new email programs, the main menu is represented by an image of three stacked horizontal bars. OpenPGP may be inside a section called Tools.</dd>
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174 <dt>The wizard says that it cannot find GnuPG.</dt>
175
3fe46e6b 176 <dd>Open whatever program you usually use for installing software, and search for GnuPG, then install it. Then restart the Engimail setup wizard by going to OpenPGP &rarr; Setup Wizard.</dd>
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177 <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
178 <dd class="feedback">Please let us know on the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback page</a>.</dd>
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181 </div><!-- End .main -->
182 </div><!-- End #step-2a .step -->
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6c495e2d 184 </section><!-- End #section2 -->
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2cb815ae 186<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 3: Try it out ~~~~~~~~~ -->
6c495e2d 187 <section class="row" id="section3">
bdf319c4 188 <div>
5c207a4d 189 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ section introduction: interspersed text ~~~~~~~~~ -->
2378bdbf 190 <div class="section-intro">
2378bdbf 191 <h2><em>#3</em> Try it out!</h2>
2378bdbf 192 <p>Now you'll try a test correspondence with a computer program named Adele, which knows how to use encryption. You'd follow the same steps if communicating with a real person. Then you'll send your first signed email to a real person!</p>
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196 <div id="step-3a" class="step">
197 <div class="sidebar">
ba2db35a 198 <p><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/placeholders/placeholder.png" alt="Placeholder" /></p>
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200 <div class="main">
43bd32d7 201 <h3><em>Step 3.a</em> Send Adele your public key</h3>
3fe46e6b 202 <p>This is a special step that you won't have to do when corresponding with real people. In your email program's menu, go to OpenPGP &rarr; Key Management. You should see your key in the list that pops up. Right click on your key and select Send Public Keys by Email. This will create a new draft message, as if you had just hit the Write button.</p>
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204<p>Put at least one word (whatever you want) in the subject and body of the email, then hit send.</p>
205
f2e49dc1 206<p>It may take two or three minutes for Adele to respond. In the meantime, you might want to skip ahead and check out the Use it well section of this guide. Once she's responded, head to the next step. From here one, you'll be doing just the same thing as when corresponding with a real person.</p>
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212 <div class="main">
213 <h3><em>Step 3.b</em> Send a test encrypted email</h3>
214 <p>Write a new email in your email program, addressed to adele-en@gnupp.de. Make the subject "Encryption test" or something similar and write something in the body. Don't send it yet.</p>
215 <p>Click the icon of the key in the bottom right of the composition window (it should turn yellow). This tells Enigmail to encrypt the email with the key you downloaded in the last step.</p>
216 <p>Click Send. Enigmail will pop up a window that says "Recipients not valid, not trusted or not found."</p>
217
218 <p>To encrypt and email to Adele, you need her public key, and so now you'll have Enigmail download it from a keyserver. Click Download Missing Keys and use the default in the pop-up that asks you to choose a keyserver. Once it finds keys, check the first one (Key ID starting with 9), then select ok. Select ok in the next pop-up.</p>
219
220 <p>Now you are back at the "Recipients not valid, not trusted or not found" screen. Select Adele's key from the list and click Ok. If the message doesn't send automatically, you can hit send now.</p>
221 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Troubleshooting ~~~~~~~~~ -->
222 <div class="troubleshooting">
223 <h4>Troubleshooting</h4>
224 <dl>
225 <dt>Enigmail can't find Adele's key</dt>
226 <dd>Close the pop-ups that have appeared since you clicked. Make sure you are connected to the Internet and try again. If that doesn't work, repeat the process, choosing a different keyserver when it asks you to pick one.</dd>
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227 <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
228 <dd class="feedback">Please let us know on the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback page</a>.</dd>
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230 </div><!-- /.troubleshooting -->
231 </div><!-- End .main -->
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234 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ a div for each step ~~~~~~~~~ -->
235 <div id="step-3c" class="step">
236 <div class="main">
237 <h3><em>Step 3.c</em> Receive a response</h3>
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238 <p>When Adele receives your email, she will use her private key to decrypt it, then fetch your public key from a keyserver and use it to encrypt a response to you.</p>
239 <p class="highlight">Since you encrypted this email with Adele's public key, Adele's private key is required to decrypt it. Adele is the only one with her private key, so no one except her &mdash; not even you &mdash; can decrypt it.</p>
240 <p>It may take two or three minutes for Adele to respond. In the meantime, you might want to skip ahead and check out the Use it well section of this guide.</p>
241 <p>When you receive Adele's email and open it, Enigmail will automatically detect that it is encrypted with your public key, and then it will use your private key to decrypt it.</p>
242 <p class="highlight">Notice the bar that Enigmail shows you with information about the status of Adele's key.</p>
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246<!-- STEP 3D IS COMMENTED OUT UNTIL WE FIND A WAY TO VALIDATE SIGNATURES
247 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ a div for each step ~~~~~~~~~ --
43bd32d7 248 <div id="step-3d" class="step">
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43bd32d7 250 <h3><em>Step 3.d</em> Send a test signed email to a friend</h3>
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251 <p>Write a new email in your email program, addressed to a friend. If you want, tell them about this guide!</p>
252 <p>Before sending the email, click the icon of the pencil in the bottom right of the composition window (it should turn yellow). This tells Enigmail to sign the email with you private key.</p>
253 <p>After you click send, Enigmail will ask you for your password. It will do this any time it needs to use your public key.</p>
61bbfa91 254 </div><!-- End .main --
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257 </section><!-- End #section3 --
258
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2cb815ae 260<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 4: Learn the Web of Trust ~~~~~~~~~ -->
6c495e2d 261 <section class="row" id="section4">
bdf319c4 262 <div>
5c207a4d 263 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ section introduction: interspersed text ~~~~~~~~~ -->
2378bdbf 264 <div class="section-intro">
2378bdbf 265 <h2><em>#4</em> Learn the Web of Trust</h2>
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266 <p>Email encryption is a powerful technology, but it has a weakness; it requires a way to verify that a person's keypair is actually theirs. Otherwise, there would be no way to stop an attacker from making an email address with your friends name, creating a keypair to go with it and impersonating your friend. They would then be able to impersonate your friend by signing messages with the private key they'd created, and decrypt messages intended for your friend with the public key.</p>
267 <p>That's why the programmers that developed email encryption created keysigning and the Web of Trust. Keysigning allows a person to publicly state that they trust that a public key belongs to a specific person. To sign someone's public key, you need to use your private key, so the world will know that it was you.</p>
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271 <div id="step-4a" class="step">
272 <div class="sidebar">
ba2db35a 273 <p><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/placeholders/placeholder.png" alt="Placeholder" /></p>
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275 <div class="main">
276 <h3><em>Step 4.a</em> Sign a key</h3>
1a7754f4 277 <p>In your email program's menu, go to OpenPGP &rarr; Key Management.</p>
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278 <p>Right click on Adele's public key and select Sign Key from the context menu.</p>
279 <p>In the window that pops up, select "I will not answer" and click OK.</p>
1a7754f4 280 <p>In your email program's menu, go to OpenPGP &rarr; Key Management &rarr; Keyserver &rarr; Upload Public Keys and hit OK.</p>
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281 <p class="highlight">You've just effectively said "I trust that Adele's public key actually belongs to Adele." This doesn't mean much because Adele isn't a real person. Before signing a real person's key, always make sure it actually belongs to them, and answer honestly in the window that pops up and asks "How carefully have you verified that the key you are about to sign actually belongs to the person(s) named above?".</p>
282 <p class="highlight">It's important to take keysigning seriously because it will affect people beyond just you and the person who's key you are signing. If someone doubts that a key actually belongs to the person that is says it does, they can go on a keyserver and see the number of signatures that it has. The more it has, the more they are likely to trust it.</p>
283 <p class="highlight">The Web of Trust takes this concept to the next level. It is a network of key signatures that is saved in keyservers on the Internet. It builds chains of trust between individuals that do not know each other by passing through others, a bit like the famous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation">"six degrees of separation" game</a>. You don't need to understand it in detail to use email encryption, but it will become a powerful tool if you become an advanced user.</p>
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284
285 <div id="pgp-pathfinder">
286 <form enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" action="/mk_path.cgi" method="get">
287 <p><strong>From:</strong> <input type="text" name="FROM"></p>
288 <p><strong>To:</strong> <input type="text" name="TO"></p>
289 <p class="buttons"><input type="submit" value="trust paths" name="PATHS"> <input type="reset" value="reset" name=".reset"></p>
290 </form>
291 </div><!-- End #pgp-pathfinder -->
292
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6c495e2d 296 </section><!-- End #section4 -->
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2cb815ae 298<!-- ~~~~~~~~~ Section 5: Use it well ~~~~~~~~~ -->
5c207a4d 299 <section id="section5" class="row">
bdf319c4 300 <div>
5c207a4d 301 <!-- ~~~~~~~~~ section introduction: interspersed text ~~~~~~~~~ -->
2378bdbf 302 <div class="section-intro">
2378bdbf 303 <h2><em>#5</em> Use it well</h2>
19e80165 304<p>Everyone uses GnuPG a little differently, but it's important to follow some basic practices to keep your email secure. Not following them, you risk the privacy of the people you communicate with, as well as your own, and damage the Web of Trust.</p>
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310 <p><img src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/enc-dev0/img/screenshots/section5-use-it-well.png" alt="Section 5: Use it Well" /></p>
311 </div><!-- /.sidebar -->
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313 <h3>When should I encrypt?</h3>
314
315 <p>The more you can encrypt your messages, the better. This is because, if you only encrypt emails occasionally, each encrypted message could raise a red flag for surveillance systems. If all or most of your email is encrypted, people doing surveillance won't know where to start.</p>
316
317</p>That's not to say that only encrypting some of your email isn't helpful -- it's a great start and it makes bulk surveillance more difficult. And even people that encrypt as much as they can are still limited to those of their contacts that have public keys.</p>
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323 <div class="main">
19e80165 324 <h3>Be wary of invalid keys</h3>
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325 <p>GnuPG makes email safer, but it's still important to watch out for invalid keys, which which might have fallen into the wrong hands. Email encrypted with invalid keys might be readable by surveillance programs.</p>
326 <p>In your email program, go back to the second email that Adele sent you. Because it was encrypted with her key, it will have a message from OpenPGP at the top, which most likely says "OpenPGP: Part of this message encrypted."</p>
327<p><b>When using GnuPG, make a habit of glancing at that bar. The program will warn you there if you get an email encrypted with a key that can't be trusted.</b></p>
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333 <h3>Copy your revocation certificate to somewhere safe</h3>
334 <p>Remember when you created your keys and saved the revocation cerfiticate that GnuPG made? It's time to copy that cerfiticate onto the safest digital storage that you have -- the ideal thing is a flash drive, disk or hard drive stored in a safe place in your home.</p>
335<p>If your private key ever gets lost or stolen, you'll need this certificate file.</p>
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342 <h3><em>Important:</em> act swiftly if someone gets your private key</h3>
343 <p>If you lose your private key or someone else gets ahold of it (say, by stealing or cracking your computer), it's important to revoke it immediately before someone else uses it to steal your identity. This guide doesn't cover how to revoke a key, but it only takes a minute. We recommend you Google it or seek help from a skilled friend. After you're done revoking, send an email to everyone with whom you usually use your key to make sure they know.</p>
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350 <h3>Make it part of your online identity</h3>
351 <p>Start writing your key ID anywhere someone would see your email address. Add it to your email signature, so that anyone corresponding with you knows that they can donwload your public key and verify that it's the correct one. It's also good to post it on your media profile, blog, Website, or business card. We need to get our culture to the point that we feel like something is missing when we see an email address without a public key ID.</p>
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87588109 364 <h2><em>#6</em> Next steps</h2>
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370 <h3>Go to a keysigning party</h3>
371 <p>Keysigning parties are social events designed to build the Web of Trust. Participants match each others' photo IDs and Key IDs, and then get out their laptops and sign each other's public keys. They're a great way to meet likeminded people and learn about new privacy tools, as well as build up people's trust in your key. Look for keysigning at tech events, hackerspaces and nerdy parties.</p>
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378 <h3>Make these tools even better</h3>
dde05815 379 <p>Like programming? Contribute code to <a href="https://www.gnupg.org/">GnuPG</a> or <a href="https://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php">Enigmail</a>. Have an idea for improving this guide? Leave us <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">feedback</a>.</p>
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386 <h3>Protect more of your digital life</h3>
387 <p>Learn surveillance-resistant technologies for instant messages, hard drive storage, online sharing and more at <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:PRISM"> the Free Software Directory's PRISM Collection</a> and <a href="prism-break.org">prism-break.org</a>.</p>
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394 <h3>Learn more about GnuPG</h3>
395 <p>There are a lot more features of GnuPG to discover, including encrypting files on your computer. There are a variety of resources accessible via Google, but we recommend starting with the links on the <a href="https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/">GnuPG Web site</a>.</p>
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402 <h3>Contribute to this guide</h3>
403 <ul>
404 <li><a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">Leave feedback and suggest improvements</a></li>
405 <li>Email us at <a href="mailto:campaigns@fsf.org">campaigns@fsf.org</a> if you'd like to help maintain and improve this guide, or to translate it</a></li>
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429 <dt>Who can read encrypted messages? Who can read signed ones?</dt>
430 <dd>Answer coming soon.</dd>
431
432 <dt>My email program is opening at times I don't want it to open/is now my default program and I don't want it to be.</dt>
433 <dd>Answer coming soon.</dd>
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