PGP Manual Setup Guide

Is there any recommended guide for newbies for manually setting up PGP for different email and email aliasing services on Windows? Simplelogin says I should set up PGP but I’m new to this and couldn’t find any Privacy Guides resource to help. Searching the net wasn’t helpful either with most being blogspam or assuming prior knowledge.

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Help?

Those are two unhelpful examples that assume prior knowledge. The first says I should paste some key but explains neither where nor how to get it. The second is a brief description in technical jargon and links to a page with even more technical jargon.

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What email client do you use on Windows?

I don’t use a mail client. Just the respective web apps.

Did you read the gpg4win documentation?

This looks just perfect. Thanks.

I have a few questions.

If you use a passphrase, it will be required to encrypt messages you send using this key pair. This will ensure no one else can send messages as you, using your key, except for you.

Is there a reason to ever not use a passphrase or password in this step?

For demonstration, here is my public key.

Comment: User-ID: Kevin Olson kevinjolson@kevinsguides.com
Comment: Valid from: 1/9/2023 9:53 PM
Comment: Valid until: 1/9/2025 12:00 PM
Comment: Type: 255-bit EdDSA (secret key available)
Comment: Usage: Signing, Encryption, Certifying User-IDs
Comment: Fingerprint: 79DDCFA9BC3AB2D1C3E0A4F919C6A98D75726DB3

At least for my email use case, am I able to edit or remove all or some parts of this? Specifically the timestamps next to the dates and User-ID.

whonix.org has a great guide on this subject Encrypted Email with Thunderbird