[Nottingham] nonplussed

[david at gbenet.com]

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On 21/03/12 10:39, Jason Irwin wrote:
> On 21/03/12 10:28, david at gbenet.com wrote:
>> Question: How do I sign an open document in OpenOffice?
> 
> Looking at the LibreOffice docs, it seems to be a bit of a faff.
> http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Applying_Digital_Signatures
> 
> But then I am the bloke who can't get signing in Thunderbird to work in
> any sensible manner (hence why none of my emails are signed!)
> 
Ha! Jason!

Well it seems that it OpenOffice does not offer any support for gnupg - so I will give that up.

As you have Linux and Thunderbird installed I will give you a guide what to do.

(1) open a terminal on your desktop and type the following gpg --version - this will create
all  the defaults within the hidden ./gnupg folder.

(2) Install GPA Gnome's Privacy Assistant Kgpg does not seem to work on 64 bit Mint Linux

(3) Run GPA and create a private and public key set. In the passphrase some say an all
numericaal key is easy to but whereas "Mary had a little doggy" is way too  hard to
crack.Create 2048 bit set of keys.

(4) You canset the trust of this key to ultimate and then create a revocation certificate
and then publish your key to a key server - all within GPA.

(5) Next you want to install Enigmail - this addon should be listed in your local
repositories. Add it install it.

(6) Start Thunderbird and set to sign outgoing emails and to write all emails as plain text.

Be Happy - questions feel free to ask

David

“See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. Nothing of the kind.
Stern, sane,every brain-cell perfect and complete even at the moment of death. No delusion.”
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