Alright I'll make this fast. Sorry to bother y'all, but I've run up against a brick wall and I'm not sure how to go any further. I've been using the DNMs for years, but this is the first time I've encountered something like this.
One of the sites I am trying to sign up for asks me to "sign the following string with your PGP private key", and then gives an encrypted (I think) string of numbers/letters/etc. I'm usually pretty savvy with things like this but I've tried every possible way I could think of and did a hell of a lot of googling and got squat, so here I am.
Anyone know how to do this? I use GPG4win/Kleopatra as my PGP program on my (windows) computer. Thanks in advance!
Stop using windows and life will miraculously become far easier. Using a linux distro, of course for tor I suggest tails.
If using tails its super easy, highlight the string with your mouse in the top right corner will be a clipboard click it and pick "sign clipboard contents" and now when you paste it'll be the signed string.
OF course make sure you have persistance setup with your gpg data so you don't loose it boot to boot.
Generic instructions for gpg:
make a key in a shell type
gpg --gen-key
complete this interactive key generator
gpg -a -s
It'll now wait for you to type the string to be signed
then press CTRL and d to send a end of file
and gpg will output the signature.
example
a@laptop$ gpg -as
this is the string <here I pressed control and d as in CTRL+D>
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1
owEBSQG2/pANAwACAWGzdSrDWpC5AcsZYgBWX3LXdGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgc3RyaW5n CokBHAQAAQIABgUCVl9y1wAKCRBhs3Uqw1qQuUQhB/9dbZkLSYDSvQYPlX5RxUlz EZIDwCaHOyZ/PSa/L1gEAue3L9lKK6c6xiGdmqkHxb1htbKgzYeB9nj4Y6ZpEcWr geH1GkZlOubQdv0M0JGkYJkNzQ1upS0wMWlQfOYNYNXgDBvRS77OIsEuofHW+zL5 ASRfONGPanBkVmhy3b99g84Fx/vrHwbQsSLXrhxoTocBkGCNtyx10LQ/2PO0EKwN xidysvubN+I/ijlXpwWt42sDO18ImHra+Zn6Ak/q0KPTLrGIsdkGa7LlxCiCbQN9 SnvE1zjEJc7hj5CzjVypV+MbiObpl5b+2MOHNQtTVYivPNk05uppN/PVQz7mgRMw =AGcZ -----END PGP MESSAGE-----