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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: dolfan2500 on December 11, 2011, 06:04 am
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I got my PGP Key and i want to know how to send an encypted message in SR. Im a newbie with this encrypted stuff i downloaded kleopatra. If someone could help me that would be awesome. Someone before told me a i have to copy and paste but i need step by step for dummies lol. Can ya please help a bro out thanx
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...too little info m8, try searching the forum we've all contributed to threads and your solution is probably already written up.
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I'm just going to leave this here.... Hope it helps
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=131.0
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Hey thanx dark start ive been looking at that for awhile i fiinally go it
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I know you got it, but here it is if you didnt and for others who dont know - in gpg4win do exactly this, get persons public key block -> paste into a notepad and save somewhere -> go to start>programs>gpg4win>gpa and at top click "keys" and click "import key" then scroll to where the .txt (text) file is and double click. it asks you "do you really want to import this key" click yes and it asks you for your keyphrase (which you should have made one to password protect yourself). Next step - click at top "windows" go to clipboard write a message and click at top "encrypt" and it will pop up the different public keys you have on file. click the correct key that corresponds with that person. thats it youre done.
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I actually have a lot of questions and issues regarding this topic myself.
1.) http://4eiruntyxxbgfv7o.onion/imgzapr/upload/005_cleaned.JPG
I went to gpg4win.org , downloaded the client and I could never find the gpa.exe file. All I seem to able to open up is kleopatra which doesn't have any options for encrypting emails,pm's, etc... and there is no clipboard or any of that stuff I see in half of those pictures.
2.) what's the difference between pgp and gpg?
3.)http://www.pgpi.org/download/
I went to this site and downloaded a version of pgp desktop. This seems to be working fine for me, I can generate keys, I can encrypt txt files, zip files, I can also encrypt messages within emails kinda like how I see most people on here are talking about. Is this version ok to use?
thx for the help.
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pgp = pretty good privacy
GnuPG = GnuPrivacyGuard = "gpg" = opensource "release" of the pgp technology
- its a play on words..
official home of GnuPG:
http://www.gnupg.org/
official home of Gnu;
https://www.gnu.org
GPG DESCRIPTION
gpg2 is the OpenPGP part of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It is a tool
to provide digital encryption and signing services using the OpenPGP
standard. gpg2 features complete key management and all bells and whis-
tles you can expect from a decent OpenPGP implementation.
In contrast to the standalone version gpg, which is more suited for
server and embedded platforms, this version is installed under the name
gpg2 and more targeted to the desktop as it requires several other mod-
ules to be installed.
GPG INTEROPERABILITY
GnuPG tries to be a very flexible implementation of the OpenPGP stan-
dard. In particular, GnuPG implements many of the optional parts of the
standard, such as the SHA-512 hash, and the ZLIB and BZIP2 compression
algorithms. It is important to be aware that not all OpenPGP programs
implement these optional algorithms..
- windows, Mac, Linux may provide out-of-the-box (part of the CD installation say...) an app like 'Kleopatra' which has some pgp / (gpg) functionality, it may not do everything cos us Linux guys do 50/50 commandline / graphica
-but then that depends what you want to do...yes?!
@ gnupg.org there is a windows installation / build plus a gpa which is i believe a gui frontend for gpg which
other users mention they use and works for them, don't know Gtk is included in any of this which is a requirement.
- i don't think there is a 'one post' that fulfills everyones need, ie step-by-step for all the OS' (ie windows or Mac or Linux) what you need
to do to have your whole desktop setup with pgp...
- i would recommend you use where possible to opensource versions of this stuff, but also balance what that software is going to do for
you; reason why is there is a chance the particular vendor (=microsoft, or symantec...) may at some point introduce purposefully a bug
that may compromise your security; at least with the opensource builds the code is public and many techies should be checking
the code to ensure its integrity blah blah; there have been discoveries in the past where it seemed a particular vendor may have
been trying to include backdoors for the "authorities" to use ...possibly; then there are bugs which could compromise your security
at least with opensource there are going to be techies working on the bugs seeing as security is of paramount importance to them
for which security may not be of much importance to the big players....
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2.) what's the difference between pgp and gpg?
3.)http://www.pgpi.org/download/
I went to this site and downloaded a version of pgp desktop. This seems to be working fine for me, I can generate keys, I can encrypt txt files, zip files, I can also encrypt messages within emails kinda like how I see most people on here are talking about. Is this version ok to use?
thx for the help.
- people here are also using enigmail plugin for thunderbird (again an opensource email client) to integrate the pgp (=gpg) keys etc to decrypt
and encrypt email messages (not forum messages)
ok