The PGP "How'd You Do That?" Page
I have put up several PGP-signed pages (including the one that you came here from). I've already started getting email asking "How'd you do that?" so I thought I'd crank out a little PGP-signing tutorial (a) for those who've never signed ANYTHING with PGP, and (b) for those who can't figure out how to sign a web page and make it work.
Remember that from here on out, you're in a new window - to go back to my main pages, just close the window.....
This will be a three-part thingie:
- Part I will be a summary of what "signing" something means in the electronic document age, and what a "timestamp" is. You don't need PGP (or anything else) to get something out of it.
- Part II will be a short section on how to check the validity of a document (or, in this case, a web page) using a PGP signature. You need a Windows or Mac version of PGP (version 6X) installed and running to make any sense of this part. The same principle will work with DOS PGP (ver 2.6.X), and I use it a lot, but I really don't want to get into a whole "Command Line And Flags" thing. If you are using and are comfortable with PGP 2.6.X, you WILL be able to use this, but there will be no command line tutorial included here.
- Part III is a "how to make a signed web page" tutorial. You need PGP installed and be reasonably comfortable with it, an HTML editor that allows you to edit the raw HTML code and at least some experience in writing HTML.
For all of this stuff, I'm using Microsoft Internet Explorer v.5X. It ought to work with Netscape. If not....(shrug)....what're ya gonna do?
Go To Part I (What Does "Signing" Something Mean?)
Go To Part II (How Do I Check A Web-Page Signature?)
Go To Part III (How Do I Sign A Web-Page?)
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