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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: cardcrash on August 04, 2013, 11:02 am

Title: PGP problems
Post by: cardcrash on August 04, 2013, 11:02 am
Hi, I've been a member of Silk Road for a year now and have spent a fair bit of cash, on thing that I can't get my head round though is the PGP encryption, I downloaded the GPA/GNU Privacy Assistant app and tried to find info on these forums as to how to implement it, most leads came to a dead end but one seemed more helpful than the others: http://p3lr4cdm3pv4plyj.onion/test.php, however when I wrote a message and and entered  my Key I was presented with a long list of alphanumeric characters but my message was still there underneath unencrypted. What am I doing wrong???

Any help greatly appreciated,

regards,

C
Title: Re: PGP problems
Post by: DaveDoe on August 04, 2013, 11:35 am
Creating a key in GPA

1) Open GPA

2) On the top tool bar click keys then select a new key

3) Enter a name (must be fake or your username) and click forward

4) Enter an email address (can be fake) and click forward

5) Don't bother making a back up copy if you are just buying as you will only really be encrypting and not signing (even if you do sign though it will likely be on a case by case basis)

6) Enter a passphrase (longer the better as long as you can remember it)

7) Enter it again

8) Congrats you made a key pair(public and private key)!



Adding a public key from a vendor or anyone else in GPA

1) Highlight public key block from the start of "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----" to the end of "-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----" and hit copy

2) Right mouse click in GPA where your key is listed and click paste

3) Congrats you have added a public key!



Encrypting a message to the public key of someone on your GPA keyring

1) On the key manager window of GPA click windows on the top tool bar then select clipboard

2) type message you want to encrypt in new text box window

3) Hit the encrypt button below the tool bar

4) Select the public key(s) you want to encrypt the message too and click ok

5) Congrats! In the clipboard your newly encrypted text will be displayed and can only be decrypted by the holder of the private key(s) matching the public key(s) you selected

Title: Re: PGP problems
Post by: cardcrash on August 04, 2013, 05:08 pm
Thanks dude, that's a great help!!
Title: Re: PGP problems
Post by: DaveDoe on August 04, 2013, 10:32 pm
NP be careful, stay safe and never trust anyone but yourself with your own security.