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- <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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- <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>
+<p>Bulk surveillance violates our fundamental rights and makes free speech risky. This guide will teach you a basic surveillance self-defense skill: email encryption. 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>
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+<p>Even if you have nothing to hide, using encryption helps protect the privacy of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult for bulk surveillance systems. If you do have something important to hide, you're in good company; these are the same tools that Edward Snowden used to share his famous secrets about the NSA.</p>
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- <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>
- <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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+ <p class="notes">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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+<p>Let's get started!</p>
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<h2><em>#1</em> Get the pieces</h2>
- <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>
+ <p>All you need to start 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>
+<p>Most GNU/Linux operating systems come with GnuPG installed on them, so you don't have to donwload it. Before configuring GnuPG 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>
<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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<h2><em>#2</em> Make your keys</h2>
<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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+<p>Your public key isn't like a physical key, because it's stored in the open in an online directory called a keyserver. People download it and use it, along with GnuPG, to encrypt emails they send to you. You can think of the keyserver as phonebook, where people who want to send you an encrypted email look up your public key.</p>
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+<p>Your private key is more like a physical key, because you keep it to yourself (on your computer). You use GnuPG and your private key to decode encrypted emails other people send to you.</p>
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<p>In your email program's menu, select OpenPGP → 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>
<p>On the second screen, titled "Signing," select "No, I want to create per-recipient rules for emails that need to be signed."</p>
<p>Use the default options until you reach the screen titled "Create Key".</p>
- <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>
+ <p>On the screen titled "Create Key," pick a strong password! Your password should be at least 12 characters and include at least one lower case and upper case letter and at least one number or punctuation symbol. Don't forget the password, or all this work will be wasted!</p>
<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>
<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>
<p class="notes">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>
<dt>The wizard says that it cannot find GnuPG.</dt>
<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 → Setup Wizard.</dd>
+ <dt>What does OpenPGP mean?</dt>
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+ <dd>OpenPGP is a protocol that GnuPG uses, just like HTTP is a protocol for the Web. It's a slightly confusing name that Enigmail uses for its menus.</dd>
<dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
<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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+ <h3><em>Step 2.b</em> Upload your public key to a keyserver</h3>
+ <p>In your email program's menu, select OpenPGP → Key Management.</p>
+<p>Right click on your key and select Upload Public Keys to Keyserver. Use the default keyserver in the popup.</p>
+<p>Now anyone who wants to send you an encrypted message can download your public key from the Internet.</b>
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+ <dd>Close the upload popup, make sure you are on the Internet and try again. If that doesn't work, try again, selecting a different keyserver.</dd>
+ <dt class="feedback">Don't see a solution to your problem?</dt>
+ <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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+<dt>Enigmail can't find Adele's key</dt>
+ <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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+ <h3><em>Important:</em> Subject lines are not encrypted</h3>
+ <p>Even if you encrypted your email, the subject line is not encrypted, so don't put private information there. The sending and receiving addresses aren't encrypted either, so they could be read by a surveillance system.</p>
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<p>People who use your public key can see the number of signatures it has. Once you've used GnuPG for a long time, you may have hundreds of signatures. The Web of Trust is the constellation of GnuPG users, connected to each other by chains of trust expressed through signatures, into a giant Web. The more signatures a key has, and the more signatures it's signers' keys have, the more trustworthy that key is.</p>
+<p>People's public keys are usually identified by their key ID, which is a short string of digits like 9G6E29F7. You may also see them referred to by their key fingerprint, which is a slightly longer string of digits often prefaced with "0x," like 0x2C1008316F3E89B7.</p>
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<p class="notes">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, but it's good practice.</p>
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<h3>Make it part of your online identity</h3>
- <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.</p><p>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>
+ <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.
(At the Free Software Foundation, we put ours on our <a href="https://fsf.org/about/staff">staff page</a>.)</p><p>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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<h2><em>#6</em> Next steps</h2>
+<p>You've now completed the basics of email encryption with GnuPG, taking action against bulk surveillance. A pat on the back to you! Want to do more to secure privacy for yourself and the people you communicate with?</p>
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<h3>Go to a keysigning party</h3>
- <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>
+ <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 keysignings at tech events, hackerspaces and nerdy parties.</p>
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- <h3>Make these tools even better</h3>
- <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>
+ <h3>Work for political change</h3>
+ <p>Encrypting our email is a powerful direct action, but to change the system, we also have to go to the root. One of the key things needed is <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">reducing the amount of data collected about us in the first place</a>.</p><p>To learn more and participate in efforts for change, join the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/subscribe">Free Software Foundation's mailing list.</a></p>
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<h3>Protect more of your digital life</h3>
- <p>Learn surveillance-resistant technologies for instant messages, hard drive storage, online sharing and more at <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:P
RISM"> the Free Software Directory's PRISM Collection</a> and <a href="prism-break.org">prism-break.org</a>.</p>
+ <p>Learn surveillance-resistant technologies for instant messages, hard drive storage, online sharing and more at <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:P
rivacy_pack"> the Free Software Directory's Privacy Pack</a> and <a href="prism-break.org">prism-break.org</a>.</p>
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+ <h3>Make Email Self-Defense tools even better</h3>
+<p><a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/GPG_guide/Public_Review">Leave feedback and suggest improvements to this guide</a>, or email us at <a href="mailto:campaigns@fsf.org">campaigns@fsf.org</a> if you'd like to help maintain or translate it.</p>
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+ <p>If you like programming, you can contribute code to <a href="https://www.gnupg.org/">GnuPG</a> or <a href="https://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php">Enigmail</a>.</p>
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+<p><a href="https://u.fsf.org/7w">If you can't do any of these, you can always <a href="https://u.fsf.org/7w">donate to the Free Software Foundation</a> so we can get Email Self-Defense into the hands of as many people as possible.</a></p>
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<h3>Learn more about GnuPG</h3>
<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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