COMP30211 Security Technologies

Lab Session 7
GNU Privacy Guard (2)
1. Continue to nish last weeks tasks, if you havent done so.
2. Download the tutors (Xiaoqis) public key le (xiaoqi-pub.asc) from NOW.
3. Import the tutors public key into your keyring.
4. Check the ngerprint of the newly imported key, and verify its ngerprint with the infor-
mation in NOW.
5. After verifying the tutors public key, sign it.
6. Create a le (e.g. a txt, doc or pdf le) containing some human readable messages.
7. Encrypt the message le using the tutors public key, and send the encrypted le to the
tutor (xiaoqi.ma@ntu.ac.uk). You should also tell the tutor in your email the type of
your le (txt, doc or pdf).
8. Send your exported public key le (yoursurname.asc) to the tutor.
9. The tutor will send your a PDF le encrypted using your public key. Decrypt the le and
read it.
10. Download a PDF document signed by the tutor (cryptography.sig) from NOW, and
verify its signature using the tutors public key.
11. Sign the message le you created in step 6 and verify its signature.
12. (Optional) Working in pairs, send your public keys and encrypted documents to each
other. Decrypt received documents.
13. (Optional) Working in pairs, send signed documents to each other. Verify the signatures.
14. Read chapters 3 and 4 of the GNU Privacy Handbook. If you dont have enough time to
nish it in lab sessions, do it at your spare time.