Intro To Beginner's Guide To PGP

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Some notes before you continue:

[Notes? We don' need no steenking notes. Take me to the Guide.]

The following is the HTML version of Father Bill Morton's Beginner's Guide To Pretty Good Privacy for Version 2.6.X. If you have a later version, this is still an excellent guide to explain what the program is doing.
If you are a brand new PGP user, I strongly recommend you get the ASCII version and print it in hard-copy so that you can go through the lesson plan with the handbook sitting in front of you. To get it, "Right Click" on the following link, then select "Save Target As". Save the file wherever you'd like on your disk, and use any standard text editor or word processor to read and print the file. Click Here With RIGHT Mouse Button To Get The Original ASCII File (For Printing).
This HTML version is intended for users who occasionally use PGP, or who are fairly new and still "getting their feet under them". If you are like me, the printed version is long gone, and I need somewhere that I can just look something up pretty quick and return to my project. This version of the Guide is for you. It has a fully linked Table of Contents so you can jump straight to the subject in which you need a little refreshing.
This guide is uploaded with the permission of the author, Bill Morton. Due to the HTML coding, his signature no longer works (the text formatting has changed), and has therefore been removed. The remaining text herein is 100% Bill Morton, completely unedited, although I take full responsibility for any errors in formatting or linking within the document. If you run across any such, please e-mail me and let me know so I can get it fixed.
To find out more about one priest's use of PGP, check out:

"God and PGP vs. the Snoopy Grey People:
How Secure E-Mail Helps Me Keep My Vows"

Father Morton's PGP Public Key is:

Click Here To Go To The Guide