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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Pfandleiher on March 18, 2012, 02:18 am

Title: Fuck you pgp, help me if you can
Post by: Pfandleiher on March 18, 2012, 02:18 am
im using Gnupg now for over a half year, but i smashed my laptop against the wall, and on the new one i keep getting an error saying that the message i want to decrypt isnt a proper encrypted message... but everything i did was correct. so what now?
Title: Re: Fuck you pgp, help me if you can
Post by: greatgreatgrandpa on March 18, 2012, 02:19 am
key is different/corrupted?
Title: Re: Fuck you pgp, help me if you can
Post by: Pfandleiher on March 18, 2012, 02:21 am
I imported it from my own vendor page, as always..
Title: Re: Fuck you pgp, help me if you can
Post by: popfiz on March 18, 2012, 02:47 am
That's your encrypt key not your decrypt key...
Title: Re: Fuck you pgp, help me if you can
Post by: cache on March 19, 2012, 08:05 am
You should have backed up your private key, the one on your vendor page is your public key. You cannot decrypt anything without your private key.
Title: Re: Fuck you pgp, help me if you can
Post by: oso on March 19, 2012, 05:01 pm
Good point.

Can anyone tell me how to export my PRIVATE key out of GPA in Windows and import it into Liberte Linux GPG?

Title: Re: Fuck you pgp, help me if you can
Post by: coptcha on March 19, 2012, 08:40 pm
I consider this to be an emergency-only temporary fix, and I can't vouch for the fact the website isn't some front for LE or something like that, BUT -

https://www.igolder.com/PGP/decryption/
https://www.igolder.com/PGP/encryption/

These two websites let you basically use PGP on the fly, browser-based, platform-independent. Use with extreme caution.
Title: Re: Fuck you pgp, help me if you can
Post by: QTC on March 19, 2012, 10:27 pm
Good point.

Can anyone tell me how to export my PRIVATE key out of GPA in Windows and import it into Liberte Linux GPG?
copy and paste your pubring.gpg, secring.gpg and trustdb.gpg. And to the OP, you are fucked. Sadly I got fucked in the same way just today. Misery loves company and all that. :-p
Title: Re: Fuck you pgp, help me if you can
Post by: Moronontherun on March 20, 2012, 12:42 am
im using Gnupg now for over a half year, but i smashed my laptop against the wall, and on the new one i keep getting an error saying that the message i want to decrypt isnt a proper encrypted message... but everything i did was correct. so what now?

LMOROTF! I'm sorry, I know it's not funny but I did the same thing with an almost brand new laptop. Lol! They don't do so well when you do that do they? Lol! When my wouldn't turn on after smashing it into the wall, I tore it to pieces with my bare hands! Felt real good! Lol!

Can anyone say, '"Anger management?"'

I on the other hand still can't encrypt a message. I did everything just like the instructions said, I have my encryption key and .................... then what? Lol! Paste the message on top of the key? Paste the key on top of the message. I don't get it.

sigh

Oz