Documentation Sources
- HOWTOs
- Includes links to some HOWTOs available in several languages to get out the best from GnuPG.
- Manuals
- A list of online available manuals which are also provided with the software.
- User Guides
- Draft versions of the user manual are available, and there is also documentation covering interoperation with PGP 2.x. In addition we have a man page online and John Michael Ashley's The GNU Privacy Handbook (GPH).
- FAQs
- Online version of the FAQs is now available. Please consult these FAQs before you ask on one of the mailing lists or report a bug.
- Mailing lists
- Describes the purposes of each mailing list hosted on this server and gives instruction on how to subscribe. Links to other GnuPG-related discussion groups are also available.
- Wiki
- The official GnuPG Wiki contains community-maintained documentation for GnuPG and related software.
- BTS
- Before you report a bug, please consult the list of bugs.
- @gnupg
- We sometimes post short messages to Twitter.
You may also notice that OpenPGP is a proposed Internet standard, described by RFC4880 (found at RFC Editor).


