Re: GnuPG/OpenPGP primer?

["Don Levey-7" <user=51@nabble.blu.org>]

 Gregory Boyce wrote: 
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Don Levey wrote: 
> 
>> At the risk of asking a ridiculously elementary question, does anyone 
>> have a pointer to a GPG/PGP primer, including such conceptual things 
>> as "what is the problem we're trying to solve" and "why bother", as 
>> well as the basic mechanics of it all? 
> 
> I used to have a PDF file written by Zimmerman which was an intro to PGP 
> that covered a lot of the stuff you're looking for.  I'll see if I can 
> dig it up.