Musing of a chubby Ginger kid.

Here is a tip to people out there who rely on email for everything. Your email travels through the Internet in the clear. When you send an email anyone can read it if they intercept it. And you would be surprised how easy that is to do sometimes. Treat your email like a postcard, anyone who handles it can read it.
But what if you ever want to send someone information that you only wanted them to be able to read? Bank account information, social security number, password to an account? There are all kinds of important stuff that would be really handy to be able to send to someone secretly That is where comes in.
GnuPG is a free (as in speech). and meets all the requirements of RFC2440. It is a command line client, but there are tons of front ends for various clients and platforms.