Week 3a: GPG Introduction & Key Generation
Goal Understand the public-key cryptography revolution and generate your first GPG keypair. This is the foundation for everything else in the course. Prerequisites: Week 2 (Cryptography Fundamentals) This is Part 1 of 4 - Covers history, concepts, and key generation. Introduction: The Public Key Revolution Week 2 taught you symmetric encryption - Alice and Bob share the same secret key. But how do they exchange that key securely? The problem: ...