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What does *this* mean?

Question: What's PGP and GPG mean? It's a way to write secure emails?

Answer: Yes, PGP (or GPG) is often used to write encrypted emails. The idea is you have a public "key" that is shared with the world, and everyone has their own private password protected key. After having it setup writing encrypted emails becomes as easy as writing normal emails but as the emails bounce from server to server, snoops won't be able to read the messages. Works on any operating system: Linux, Mac, Windows, etc. Of course both parties (sender and receiver) must have PGP enabled for it to work.

More on this later.

I'm starting to use it but it's difficult because nobody really does. So I don't either. Shouldn't it be default behavior requiring little thought to use? I don't know.

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