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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Arcane on January 09, 2013, 04:45 pm
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I have gpg4win (Kleopatra) on my system. But cant properly figure out how to use it. Could someone guide me through the process of creating my own PGP key & sending my address encrypted to vendors.
Sorry for this most basic of questions, but i cant for the life of me figure out what to do ::)
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I'd recommend using GPG4USB, you can find a tutorial written by Astor here: http://32yehzkk7jflf6r2.onion/gpg4usb/
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Thanks man thats helped greatly & i'm already getting the grips of using it. I've got my own PGP key, i've learnt how to encrypt messages. But when you're encrypting something and on the right it has the list of who to encrypt for. I take it i need to add each vendors pgp key & "encrypt for: (whichever vendor)". And that will be the job done for encrypting name and address right? Sorry to be so slow getting the hang, just want to make sure i'm doing it right.
And with only my PGP key people will be able to send me their name and address encrypted? ( I only ask as its the main reason im interested in pgp is because i'm opening a vendor account soon). Also, do all pgp encryption softwares work with eachother? Like someone using a different program to me will still work fine?
cheers :-)
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Dont worry, got it :) thanks for the help
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Thanks man thats helped greatly & i'm already getting the grips of using it. I've got my own PGP key, i've learnt how to encrypt messages. But when you're encrypting something and on the right it has the list of who to encrypt for. I take it i need to add each vendors pgp key & "encrypt for: (whichever vendor)". And that will be the job done for encrypting name and address right? Sorry to be so slow getting the hang, just want to make sure i'm doing it right.
And with only my PGP key people will be able to send me their name and address encrypted? ( I only ask as its the main reason im interested in pgp is because i'm opening a vendor account soon). Also, do all pgp encryption softwares work with eachother? Like someone using a different program to me will still work fine?
cheers :-)
That's right, you give people your _public_ key, and they use that to encrypt messages to you which only you will be able to decrpyt, being the only owner of the matching private key. Yep, all PGP software use the same algorithms so the program that people use won't matter, you just need a copy of each other's public keys :)