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      type="topic" id="mail-encryption-gpg-create-key">

  <info>
    <desc>Signing or encrypting messages that you send via GPG/OpenPGP.</desc>

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    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
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  <title>Creating a GPG key</title>

<!-- TODO:POST-3-13: Needs a complete rewrite now that https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508744 is fixed. -->

<p>Before you can get or send GPG encrypted mail, you need to <link xref="help:seahorse/pgp-create" href="https://help.gnome.org/users/seahorse/stable/pgp-create">generate your public and private keys with GPG</link>. After doing so and <link xref="mail-encryption-gpg-set-up">setting up <app>Evolution</app> to use the key</link>, you need to <link xref="help:seahorse/pgp-publish" href="https://help.gnome.org/users/seahorse/stable/pgp-publish">share your public key with your friends to allow them sending you encrypted messages</link>.</p>

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