[seahorse/wip/userdocs: 45/244] help: Create what-is-pgp-key.page
- From: Ekaterina Gerasimova <egerasimov src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [seahorse/wip/userdocs: 45/244] help: Create what-is-pgp-key.page
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:57:57 +0000 (UTC)
commit 1926b5ca5c7d2e0d406c6dd4b7ede9585ab5c179
Author: Aruna Sankaranarayanan <arunasank src gnome org>
Date: Wed Jul 3 19:36:06 2013 +0530
help: Create what-is-pgp-key.page
help/C/what-is-pgp-key.page | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/what-is-pgp-key.page b/help/C/what-is-pgp-key.page
index 8932557..1137e1f 100644
--- a/help/C/what-is-pgp-key.page
+++ b/help/C/what-is-pgp-key.page
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@
<link type="guide" xref="learn-about-keys" group="first"/>
<revision version="0.1" date="2011-10-23" status="stub"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.9" version="0.1" date="2013-07-03" status="draft"/>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
- <credit type="author">
- <name>Jim Campbell</name>
- <email>jwcampbell gmail com</email>
- <years>2011</years>
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Aruna Sankaranarayanan</name>
+ <email>aruna evam gmail com</email>
+ <years>2013</years>
</credit>
<desc></desc>
@@ -19,18 +20,26 @@
<title>What is a PGP key?</title>
- <comment>
- <cite date="2011-10-23" href="mailto:jwcampbell gmail com">Jim Campbell</cite>
- <p>This assumes the reader knows how to.... By the end of this page,
- the reader will be able to....</p>
- </comment>
+ <p>A PGP key is a public encryption key.</p>
- <p>Short introductory text...</p>
+ <p>A PGP key can be used to sign and encrypt emails and files. When you
+ create a PGP key, a keypair having a public key and a private key is
+ generated. You can share the public key with anyone who wishes to send you
+ encrypted messages or files, but the private key must be known only to you
+ and used to decrypt received messages.</p>
- <steps>
- <item><p>First step...</p></item>
- <item><p>Second step...</p></item>
- <item><p>Third step...</p></item>
- </steps>
+<section id="encryption-signing">
+ <title>Encrypt and sign data using PGP keys</title>
+
+ <p><app>Passwords and Keys</app> is a key management application. Though it
+ cannot be used to encrypt and sign files and messages, you can use it to
+ <link xref="key-signing">sign</link> trustworthy keys.</p>
+
+ <p>To secure your communication, you can use email clients like
+ <app>Evolution</app> that provide
+ <link xref="help:evolution/mail-encryption-gpg-signing-encrypting">encryption
+ and signing</link> services.</p>
+
+</section>
</page>
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