Key Management


Key Management is anything that deals with managing the public and private keys for your encryption program(s). Usually, you have at least one private key pair, and the public keys of people/groups which you correspond with.

Keys are simple to remember:

Names are mostly the same, you see little "heads" instead of keys. Signatures are from other people who have signed that key, in effect saying, "I trust that this key I'm signing is valid." Signatures can be different colors from the keys they sign, because they may be known and valid, but the key they've signed for may not be.

You can generate your own private key pairs with Generate Key Pairs. You can also add new names (for new email addresses, name changes, etc..), you can sign others keys, revoke your signatures, revoke your keys, and update keys with a keyserver (if the encryption program supports that).