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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: buckaroo0987 on August 28, 2013, 07:01 pm
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Or should I say a GPG question?
I'm using PGP4WIN (which I got from GPG) with Kleopatra.
I'm been going through the manual, learning how to use it, but when it comes to decrypting a message the only thing the manual explains how to do is use a plugin for Outlook.
Naturally I don't want to use outlook... so how do I go about decrypting an email or message (using this program)?
Thanks
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I can't really speak on behalf of Kleo - I tried it and just got impatient and looked for an alternative. I know this doesn't answer your question, but if you're up for following a super simple tutorial that got me up and running in a solid 20 minutes, check out the guide I found that's in my sig.
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1) Create your master certificate
a) Open Kleopatra and then Click File => New Certificate
b) Create a Personal OpenPGP Pair
c) Name: use your username for the site
email: use anonymous email, or fake@email.addy
d) Click Advanced
Select DSA
Check Elgamal
Use highest bits available for encryption
e) Click OK
f) Click Next
g) Use a passphrase you can remember (80+ characters is not unheard of the longer the passphrase the more secure your message will be)
This will take a bit of time....
h) You can make a backup of your keypair if you want to, so you can import later....
2) Export your public key
a) Under 'My certificates' you should now see a listed name (should be your username, if you followed example)
b) Hilight your certificate, and click export cert at the top, and save this file somewhere (it'll be a .asc file)
(This file is your public certificate, open it up in notepad or something,
and you can copy/paste this to your profile, or to your customers in a public message.)
3) Adding Other Peoples Keys:
a) People will post their public keys so that you can copy/import them into your key manager (kleopatra in this case)
keys start with: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
keys end with: -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
b) To get these keys into kleopatra, select the entire key (including the begin and end line), and copy them to your clipboard (crtl+c or edit=>copy)
c) Right click your red kleopatra icon in your task bar
d) select Clipboard and then certificate import
4) Decrypt a message sent from someone
a) Again, like the public keys, people will post encrypted messages to you that you'll need to decrypt
messages start with: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
messages end with: -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
b) Again, hilight and copy the entire message block, with the begin and end line
c) Right Click the red Kleopatra icon
d) Select Clipboard, then click decrypt
e) Enter the passphrase you used to create your key
The decrypted data is now in your clipboard
f) Open notepad or another text editor, and paste the contents of your clipboard (crtl+v , edit=>paste)
5) Encrypt a message to someone else
a) First you need to make sure you have the public key saved for the person you want to communicate with, in section 3
b) Open notepad, or a text editor, and type the message you want encrypted
c) hilight the entire message, and copy it to your clipboard
d) Right Click Kleopatra , Goto Clipboard , Click on Encrypt
e) Click Add Recipient
f) Goto Other Certificates, and add the individual you would like.
g) Click Okay/next and it'll tell you its complete
h) The encrypted message is now in your clipboard
You can now paste that encrypted content into a private message to the person with crtl+v/edit=>paste.
This is from a clearnet site called shroomery or something but it's very useful. I am a noob myself but I think it's pretty easy to use PGP with these instructions, I learned it by this way.
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4) Decrypt a message sent from someone
a) Again, like the public keys, people will post encrypted messages to you that you'll need to decrypt
messages start with: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
messages end with: -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
b) Again, hilight and copy the entire message block, with the begin and end line
c) Right Click the red Kleopatra icon
d) Select Clipboard, then click decrypt
e) Enter the passphrase you used to create your key
The decrypted data is now in your clipboard
f) Open notepad or another text editor, and paste the contents of your clipboard (crtl+v , edit=>paste)
Here he says "Right click the red Kleopatra icon... Which one is he referring too? I right clicked the one in "start" and there was no clipboard or decrypt option.
I tried highlighting my whole encrypted message and right clicking that... there was no Kleopatra icon.
I'm using the most up to date version of Kleopatra, it came right from the site today... so I'm surprised it's this confusing of a process to get working.
Any more help J would be great.
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OK, I think I got it figured out.
All these guides leave out that you have to put the message into another program .. some kind of text editor, then save the file and THEN it will let you decrypt it.
That worked, but I am definitely not liking the idea that I have to save a file with this information in it. Seams like one more trail to me...
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Yes, it means the little icon next to you date/time, not on the program itself. I don't know what it's called in English but you said you figured it out.
OK, I think I got it figured out.
All these guides leave out that you have to put the message into another program .. some kind of text editor, then save the file and THEN it will let you decrypt it.
That worked, but I am definitely not liking the idea that I have to save a file with this information in it. Seams like one more trail to me...
You just have to copy the message you want to encrypt or decrypt, the text editor is just an example. You don't need to save the document obviously, it's just there so that you can copy and paste it. You could even write your message in an email without sending it, it would work too.
Just write your adress into a text file, copy it, encrypt it and that's it. No need to save anything mate :)