The Encryption/Computer Security Thread!

[Ares]

I run both... windows and linux.

I was trying to create a new key on my windows machine (the only computer I had handy at the time), but was having trouble creating a 4096-bit key with any of the windows gpg programs.

With linux, gpg seems to work a little smoother... I even have a mail client on my linux machine (clawsmail) that can encrypt/sign/decrypt/verify with my keyring within the mail client itself. I'm sure I could do pretty much the same thing with windows and outlook or something like that, but I've never tried it on windows - I prefer to use linux.

That PGP client you downloaded from me yesterday has an Outlook plugin that will allow you to do that. I and a friend created 4096-bit keys but it seemed kind of useless to send practically 1MB just to say "Hi!."