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 PGP/GPG keys have the advantage of being completely free to create but the disadvantage of being somewhat cumbersome to set up and use in comparison to S/MIME.
-You can read a [http://www.madboa.com/geek/gpg-quickstart/ Quickstart for GPG] or the [http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/gpgsetup.php.html one written by the Enigmail team].
+You can read a [http://www.madboa.com/geek/gpg-quickstart/ Quickstart for GPG] or the [http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/gpgsetup.php.html one written by the Enigmail team]. (There is an older [http://straightedgelinux.com/blog/howto/setupgnupg.html Linux-oriented article] as well.)
 You can obtain an S/MIME certificate from a number of providers. You can [https://www.startssl.com/?app=12 get a free one from StartCom] or [https://www.verisign.com/digital-id/index.html?tid=gnps pay Verisign] for one. Once you have it, [https://www.startssl.com/?app=25#52 export it from your browser] as a .p12 file and import it into your mail client. S/MIME Keys must be in PEM format - i.e. Base64-encoded text, with the first line containing BEGIN CERTIFICATE. In order to upload it to Bugzilla, you will need to convert the certificate to a .pem file.