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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Leroy the bad boy on April 20, 2012, 12:53 am
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Hi friends, I was completely clueless about GPG and encryption. I think I finally have it and am happy to help out anyone out. As my mentor said..."once you get it, you get it!"
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You can try this. It's cheaper then 2 BTC too.
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I'm giving out free advice today. :P
At least I can help you out on the mac encryption portion of your request.
What you want to do is ensure you're running osx 10.6 (snow leopard) or higher (lion)
Download and install a bundle called GPGTools on the Internet. Install it. Then you may have to restart.
Open textedit and click on preferences. Ensure that the "always use plaintext" option is selected.
You can generate a Public PGP key using "GPG Keychain Access" which comes with GPGTools.
Open GPG Keychain Access and click new. Enter your SR username and a fake email address. Uncheck the "upload" box.
Don't worry about the advanced options here. Now what you do is find the key you generated and click "export"
Just export the file to your desktop with a .txt extension and then open it and there's you key to be copied and sent to whoever you want to send you encrypted messages.
To Decrypt communications to you
Highlight the entire encrypted message and paste it into textedit. Then highlight it and click on the "textedit" menu, right next to the apple menu.
So the menu's are TEXTEDIT>SERVICES>OPENPGP:DECRYPT
then it should prompt you for your pass and you're good.
In order to send encrypted messages you'll need the recipients public key imported in GPG Keychain Access.
1. Copy their Public Key into textedit
2. Highlight it
3. TEXTEDIT>SERVICES>OPENPGP:IMPORT
then delete the key text in textedit and type your message in textedit. highlight it.
Then TEXTEDIT>SERVICES>OPENPGP:ENCRYPT.
then choose the recipient and you're ready to go!
Rocker
Edit for clarity
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I'm giving out free advice today. :P
At least I can help you out on the mac encryption portion of your request.
What you want to do is ensure you're running osx 10.6 (snow leopard) or higher (lion)
Download and install a bundle called GPGTools on the Internet. Install it. Then you may have to restart.
Open textedit and click on preferences. Ensure that the "always use plaintext" option is selected.
You can generate a Public PGP key using "GPG Keychain Access" which comes with GPGTools.
Open GPG Keychain Access and click new. Enter your SR username and a fake email address. Uncheck the "upload" box.
Don't worry about the advanced options here. Now what you do is find the key you generated and click "export"
Just export the file to your desktop with a .txt extension and then open it and there's you key to be copied and sent to whoever you want to send you encrypted messages.
To Decrypt communications to you
Highlight the entire encrypted message and paste it into textedit. Then highlight it and click on the "textedit" menu, right next to the apple menu.
So the menu's are TEXTEDIT>SERVICES>OPENPGP:DECRYPT
then it should prompt you for your pass and you're good.
In order to send encrypted messages you'll need the recipients public key imported in GPG Keychain Access.
1. Copy their Public Key into textedit
2. Highlight it
3. TEXTEDIT>SERVICES>OPENPGP:IMPORT
then delete the key text in textedit and type your message in textedit. highlight it.
Then TEXTEDIT>SERVICES>OPENPGP:ENCRYPT.
then choose the recipient and you're ready to go!
Rocker
Edit for clarity
Thank you for the response, sorry it's taken so long.
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Thanks for this post, very helpful, but I cant replicate the instructions when I am trying to encrypt my address to send to a vendor,
when I go to Textedit>preferences>services> there is no 'OPENPGP>ENCRYPT option, I have GPG Keychain access and GPG Tools installed, and I have created a key
My only options are New Email With Selection or New Note with Selection?
also, why use a fake email address in creating a key and why uncheck the upload button
Sorry if this is a silly question
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how do i test my gpg to make sure i can unencrypt and my vendor can too?
Thanks in advance for the help