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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: yodapman on June 19, 2011, 09:11 pm
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Looking for an awesome MAC tutorial on how to be as anon as possible, from tor to gpg keychain access.
Is such a thing available?
I'm also willing to pay someone for their time to help me set everything up.
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I use GPG through safemail and firefox 3 using firegpg. if you are interested in learning how email me at jerry78@safe-mail.net
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Eww, why would you use Mac (or any Apple product really)?
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Eww, why would you use Mac (or any Apple product really)?
Because they're 10^6 better than MS and 10^3 easier to use than Linux
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go to system settings , then to security then go to firevault and you can encrypt all your files.
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thanks for the responses...anyone using gpg key access with firefox 4.0?
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http://www.robertsosinski.com/2008/02/18/working-with-pgp-and-mac-os-x/
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@yodapman-I am using it with 4.0 on a Mac. Works very slickly, once you understand the basics. For your purposes, GPG and PGP are the same thing. In the old days I always called it PGP (for Pretty Good Privacy) but here everyone calls it GPG (GnuPG).
There is an excellent tutorial at: http://g7pz322wcy6jnn4r.onion/opensource/II/gpgmacfield.html Written by a fellow SR user, godisbread.
Download the referenced free MACGPG2 program and go through the first two parts of the tutorial: Installation and Key Generation
Ignore the third part: Message Encryption Operations-you cannot use the "GPG Drop Thing" to encrypt/decrypt messages. It's because you have no way to associate the message with a specific persons key...that has to be done with a mail program...AFAIK
This will make sense when you get to this point.
To encrypt a message, you will need to open your mail program on Mac, type your message in a "new message" THEN (very important) select the whole message, then go MAIL-->SERVICES-->OPEN PGP:ENCRYPT If you only type the message but don't select/highlight all of it, the necessary function selections will not show up under the SERVICES menu and you will be completely flummoxed and think you are a retarded asswipe...just like I did!!! I nearly went crazy looking for a function I *fucking knew* must exist there, but didn't show up at all.
You also have to use your mail program for *importing other people's keys* as well. Just clipboard their key from the source, put it in a new message (you don't have to put a recipient or anything else, just use a blank message, like in the above example) then go to: MAIL-->SERVICES-->OPEN PGP:IMPORT KEY and it will go directly to your keychain, which will be a program in your applications file and you can open it and see whose keys you have already and whose you don't. When you finish Installation, it will be empty; when you finish Key Encryption, it will have just your own key in it.
BIG WARNING: use a totally fake name and email when it asks for your name and email during Key Generation. That name and email goes out as an identifier to everyone who imports your public key...
It's nice of you to offer to pay for help, but aren't we at least partially here to help each other out? :) I just hope this saves you the whole weekend of frustration I suffered a few weeks ago because I had used PGP in the past but had sent the emails "non-anonymously" thru my previous Win-based computer and email program, which did all of this automatically via plug-ins.
GOOD LUCK!!!
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Thanks a lot! I have been using that fucking "GPG dropthing" for 2 days now and was going around in fucking circles. I am sure a pc would be a lot easier. I really appreciate the help..
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Thanks a lot for all the help man...still going through it but I'm sure I should be good after all this.