On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 18:40 +0200, Javier Martinez wrote: > El 22/8/25 a las 18:21, zyxhere💠escribió: > > Hi I'm new to the mailing list workflow (or emails in general), right > > now I'm using evolution and have somehow been able to configure it (I > > can even encrypt emails with it!!😱😱).Two things I wanted to know are > > what should the wrap line limit be (in evolution the default is 71 but I > > don't know why is it even correct?) and how can I send someone else > > encrypted emails with evoution, I did test it and was able to send > > encrypted/signed emails to myself so now I want to know how can I do the > > same to others. > > > > Do I have to manually get everyones public key and make them trusted? Or > > can evolution somehow get those from a keyserver? I did verify my keys > > with this email address on https://keys.openpgp.org/ (Note that I'm also > > a little new to GPG too). > > > > Will appreciate any help. > > Thanks. > > I'm going to create one gpg key with the name zyxhere and publish it in > a key server. With it, I will sign one text file that indicates: I'm a > windows fan, windows rulez. > > Now someone gets this gpg key from the key server, and verify the sign, > get's in rage because the content and answers you in this email list > answering you: Go and clean your windows!!!!
They search for my email in the keyserver to get it so if I have verified my email on it then this shouldn't really be a concern? > > So, keys downloaded from keyservers are not usually trusted. I get it with your example > I usually attach my key in thunderbird. So, at least people can figure > that getting my key id is the way to download the gpg key from this > troll. If this troll has really the name that appears in the mail from, > can't be verified, but at least it's the gpg key of the troll that has > sent this email, whatever name that really has, that's for sure > > Public from receiver is used to crypt to the destination and to verify > signatures from him. Private key its used to decrypt mails sent to us > and to make the signature checked with our public key. Right
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