Many people have no problems sending sensitive data via e-mail.
Most of us do not know how easy it is for anybody to read it. PGP is the de facto standard for e-mail security and file encryption on the Internet. It uses public-key cryptography to ensure secure communication between two parties who may have never even met. GnuPG implements the OpenPGP standard as outlined in RFC 2440. The purpose of this document is to demonstrate the steps necessary to set up GnuPG and use it with Pine, a popular mail and news client.