How to use the Guard settings:
Click the
icon on the right side of the menu bar. Click the menu item.Select .
in the side bar. Click onChange the settings.
Usually, the key management functions are not required for sending or receiving encrypted messages. Those functions can be useful though under the following circumstances:
You want to use your Guard PGP keys in other E-Mail clients, e.g. in local E-Mail clients.
You have PGP keys from other PGP applications. You want to use those keys in Guard.
You have an external partner's public key. In order to send encrypted messages to this external partner or verify received signed messages without having to access a key server, you want to import the partner's public key into Guard.
You want to provide your public key to an external partner in order to allow the external partner to send encrypted messages to you without the need to access a key server.
The following options are available:
Opens the Your Keys dialogue window for managing your own keys.
buttonOpens the Your Keys dialogue window for managing public keys.
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Parent topic: Encrypting Data