How PGP Help To Secure Your Communication?

PGP was quite in buzz, when the Facebook announced the communication over social networking sites can also be encrypted and kept secure. But, hardly anyone knows that what is PGP and how one can use it to secure its communication over text, mails, files, etc. So, understanding the thirst about the PGP and PGP software, here is a guide to tell you what it is and what it actually does?

An introduction to PGP

PGP is the acronym used for the Pretty Good Privacy, which is a data encryption technology that helps to keep your information secure via the communication through the text, emails, etc. It provides a cryptographic privacy and authenticates the data for the communication.

Now the question arises that how it works and if it actually works, then how it is so fast because encryption is a time consuming job!!!

Well, all the answer to your questions is right below.

How PGP works?

PGP (pretty good privacy) works end-to-end to encrypt and decrypt the data using the private and public key. Now, private and public keys are the encryption keys that are with both the recipient the end. Here, if you are the one out of the two communicating bodies and other is your friend, then both of you will have the private and public keys.

While you, typing the messages will use the public keys and on the other hand, the recipient will decrypt the message using the private keys. In the whole process, both the short key and encrypted message are sent to the recipient who then use the private to depict the short keys and then uses the keys to decrypt the actual encrypted message.

So, all in all, it will look way technical to layman who just have a business and want this privacy over his communication, but not to worry much as he himself do not need to sit down and encrypt and decrypt the messages as the whole process is carried out with the software installed in your desktop, laptops and mobile, whichever you use. Hence, what you just require is to get the PGP software in your device be stress free from the privacy and data theft.

Getting your device fool proof with the PGP software

Now, getting the software installed in your devices is not a big deal and you can simply get it done with a minimal research on the internet. However, you do not have so much of free time to do the research and collect the data, then continue reading the following; you will be benefited.

1. Download the software, which is available for PCs and Macs. Also, there are extensions which one can add on in their browser to activate the security for their emails.

1. Generate the keys by filling up information, like the name, emails, password, etc.
2. Export your keys to all your contact with whom you want to share the encrypted messages.
3. Import your keys from your contacts as you will need them by decrypting he received messages.
4. Send the encrypted messages using the keys to your contacts.
5. Decrypt the received message from your contacts using the keys.

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