[ Thanks to Marcel
Gagné for this link. ]
Please sit, mes amis. We have an almost perfect menu
for you today, but sadly it’s missing one item. Still, the
Côte-Rôtie Rhône, red that is both sexy and
mysterious, should help take away from its absence. I had so wanted
to prepare my famous Crème Linuxaise for you today, but
there were problems. You see, the Linuxaise is an old and secret
family recipe, and I could not risk it falling into the wrong
hands. Nor could I risk sending it by e-mail for fear of it being
intercepted or read by a network sniffer; otherwise,
François could have prepared it in advance. It is that
secret!“Next time, however, will not be a problem. I am setting up all
users at the restaurant with GnuPG and public key encryption so
that sensitive communications can be sent without fear. GnuPG is
the GNU Privacy Guard, a program that makes it possible to encrypt
messages and data in general. It is a patent-free, open-source
replacement for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). A number of Linux e-mail
packages allow you to send and receive encrypted e-mails using
GnuPG, and this is what I’d like to show you today. Most modern
distributions have GnuPG included, so if you don’t have it on the
system, check your CD first. You also can find the latest version
at www.gnupg.org, but first, a little background…”