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<h2><em>#6</em> Next steps</h2>

<p>You've now completed the basics of email encryption with GnuPG, taking action against
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<p>You've just taken a huge step towards protecting your privacy online. But each of us
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<h3>Get your friends involved</h3>

<p><strong>This is the single biggest thing you can do

<h3>Bring Email Self-Defense to promote new people</h3>

<p>Understanding and setting up email
encryption.</strong></p>

<p>Before you close this guide, use encryption is a daunting task for many. To welcome
them, make it easy to find your public key and offer to help with encryption. Here are
some suggestions:</p>

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<li>Lead an Email Self-Defense workshop for your friends and community, using our <a
href="workshops.html">teaching guide</a>.</li>
<li>Use <a href="https://fsf.org/share?u=https://u.fsf.org/zb&t=Encrypt with me using
Email Self-Defense %40fsf">our sharing page</a> to compose a message to a few friends and
ask them to join you in using encrypted email. Remember to include your <a
href="index.html#section4">GnuPG GnuPG public key ID</a>
fingerprint so they can easily download your key.</p>

<p>It's also great to add key.</li>
<li>Add your public key fingerprint to your email signature so anywhere that
people you are corresponding with know you accept encrypted email.</p>

<p class="notes">We recommend you even go a step further and add it to normally display your email
address. Some good places are: your email signature (the text kind, not the cryptographic
kind), social media profiles, blog, Website, blogs, Websites, or business card. (At cards. At the Free Software
Foundation, we put ours on our <a href="https://fsf.org/about/staff">staff page</a>.) We need to get our culture
to the point that we feel like something is missing when we see an email address without
a public key fingerprint.</p> page</a>.</li>
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<h3>Protect more of your digital life</h3>

<p>Learn surveillance-resistant technologies for instant messages, hard drive storage, online
sharing, and more at <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Privacy_pack">
the Free Software Directory's Privacy Pack</a> and <a
href="https://prism-break.org">prism-break.org</a>.</p>



<p>If you are using Windows, Mac OS or any other proprietary operating system, we recommend
you switch to a free software operating system like GNU/Linux. This will make it much
harder for attackers to enter your computer through hidden back doors. Check out the Free
Software Foundation's <a href="http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html">endorsed
versions of GNU/Linux.</a></p>

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<h3>Optional: Add more email protection with Tor</h3>

<p><a href=https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en>The Onion Router (Tor)
network</a> wraps Internet communication in multiple layers of encryption and bounces
it around the world several times. When used properly, Tor confuses surveillance field
agents and the global surveillance apparatus alike. Using it simultaneously with GnuPG's
encryption will give you the best results.</p>

<p>To have your email program send and receive email over Tor, install the <a
href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/">Torbirdy plugin</a>
the same way you installed Enigmail, by searching for it through Add-ons.</p>

<p>Before beginning to check your email over Tor, make sure you understand <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhatProtectionsDoesTorProvide">the security
tradeoffs involved</a>. This <a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https">infographic</a>
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<h3>Learn more about GnuPG</h3>

<p>There are a lot more features of GnuPG to discover, including encrypting files on your
computer. There are a variety of resources accessible via Google, but we recommend starting
with the links on the <a href="https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/">GnuPG Web site</a>.</p>

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<dt>My key expired</dt>

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<dt>Who can read encrypted messages? Who can read signed ones?</dt>

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<dt>My email program is opening at times I don't want it to open/is now my default program
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