Random Notes

Really think about ways that this will be about making the fact that you use GPG part of your online identity, and make this a vector for driving people to the guide. For example, have people put their GPG key up on their blogs and social media sites, with a link (perhaps with logo, graphic, embed code, something cool) to our guide. Is there a good standard way to list this on your FB? Twitter? We can get people to do this even if they are already using GPG.
Audience: People who are excited about technology and involved in movements like ours, but don't already know how to use GPG.
Think about licensing
How do we visually do the troubleshooting? The different operating systems?
Name ideas
- Safe email 101
- Encryption 101
- Encrypt your email
- Safe email

Page elements

Infographic
Intro paragraph
- Says it's great to do this with a friend, but we designed it so that it also works fine for one person.
Step-by-step guide
Next steps section

_The idea is for the guide to be broken down into concise steps, with a focus on the actual steps, rather than in-depth explanations of why or how things work. The guide will have a series of steps, each with a number and concise but descriptive name, to make it easy to refer to different parts of it. Each step will have an FAQ-style troubleshooting section, and each entry in the troubleshooting will have a name and a body, which consists of help text. We need to think about the visual presentation of the versions for different operating systems and of the troubleshooting. One possibility is tabs for the operating system and expanding boxes that start collapsed for troubleshooting. Troubleshooting could also be in a separate section at the bottom of the page that looks like an FAQ._

Section 1: Installation (for GNU/Linux users, assume they have GnuPG and Thunderbird, but tell them how to get them if they don't have them)
- Get GnuPG if you don't already have it
- Get Thunderbird
  - Configure Thunderbird for your email account
- Get Enigmail
Section 2: Set-up
- Make a keypair
- Test signing and encrypting with Adele the keybot, or with a friend
- Publish your key, with explanation of GPG ID
Section 3: Use

_Somehow work in doing this with your friends_

- How to send encrypted messages and decrypt people's messages
- How to send signed messages and verify signatures
- Last step add your key ID to your email signature, along with a link to this guide for getting started. Start signing all your messages and publish your key ID wherever you publish your email address (business cards, Web site, bios, other examples), since this is the best way to advertise that you are using encryption.
- Point to external resource about Web of Trust, or include our own? Perhaps a sidebox?
- For users of OSs other than GNU/Linux, a note or sidebox encouraging them to switch to a free operating system if they want to protect their privacy as much as possible.

- Attend or host a keysigning party (is there a good way to find them?)
- An encrypted email group where people talk about encryption: <http://groups.yahoo.com/neo>/groups/PGPNET/info
- Try other encryption technologies: OTR, encrypting your hard drive, Tor
- Link to surveillance collection in directory, or prism-break with free software filter, if that has been set up
- Donate to the FSF or GnuPG, Thunderbird or Enigmail!

RSA versus DSA
Saving unencrypted drafts to servers, as per Micah Lee's email to liberationtech
Link to dedicated keyserver for people to use, run by us, so that we can track who is getting started through our campaign.