#PGP EFnet

This site is dedicated to the workings of the IRC channel #PGP on EFnet. #PGP is a relaxed forum for discussion topics related to PGP, GnuPG, and other OpenPGP implementations. Other topics include general cryptography and security.

The Cast

Character	Email	URL	Short OpenPGP KeyID
Dekan	ftobin at neverending.org	http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/	0x260C4FA3
Delta	telde at elde.net		0x81FFA954
kg5rg	perry at jpunix.com		0x164BDBAE
Len	rabbi at quickie.net		0x09AC0A6A
Mentor	gschoell at pobox.com		0x6A9F0BFB
subsist	www at home.net		0x6AC34C49
whgiii	whgiii at openpgp.net	http://www.openpgp.net/	0xA035CA9B
Yashy	yashy at yashy.com	http://www.yashy.com/	0xBDA04D07

Our Resources

non-unix users (Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, etc)

Those of us on non-unix operating systems such as Windows, OS/2 tend to use a recent PGP version.

unix users

Those of us that use unix-like operating systems such as Linux and the BSD family tend to use GnuPG, an offical GNU imlementation of the OpenPGP standard (RFC 2440).

integration with mailers

Pine: pgpenvelope is popular among the #PGP cast for incorporating GnuPG with Pine, possibly because Dekan develops it.
Mutt: Mutt internally supports GnuPG and several versions of PGP.

Libraries

Perl: GnuPG::Interface is developed by Dekan. This is how pgpenvelope communicates with GnuPG.

Suggestions

Read the OpenPGP-related documentation that is available. This will help you get started learning how OpenPGP works.

FAQ

Many FAQ's concerning PGP and related programs are available. We won't try to reiterate many of those questions here.