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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: enderseven on March 29, 2013, 05:58 pm

Title: Regarding Liberte and Gnu PGP
Post by: enderseven on March 29, 2013, 05:58 pm
I'm having some trouble using GNU privacy assistant that comes with Liberte and was hoping someone would be able to help! After encrypting a message, a new .txt file appears with a .gpg extension "example.txt.gpg" This must be the encrypted message? What exactly do I do next to get it to the recipient? When I try and open it I get an error from gedit (text editor in Liberte) stating that it cannot detect the character encoding.

I'm wondering if I missed something while reading the guides here and elsewhere or if ts a technical problem. Any other Liberte users out there with advice? What I understand so far:
Create a text file with the info you want to send.
Encrypt that file with the recipients public key.
Copy and paste contents of the .gpg file in the email/message/etc.
And that should be it right??
Title: Re: Regarding Liberte and Gnu PGP
Post by: jdtd123456789 on March 29, 2013, 11:00 pm
If you are encrypting a message to someone else and use their key to encrypt it, you will not be able to open it. Only THEIR key will be able to open it.
Title: Re: Regarding Liberte and Gnu PGP
Post by: hojasanta on March 29, 2013, 11:39 pm
The way I do it is as follows:

Copy the vendor's public key
Paste public key in a text file
Import that text file to gpa
In gpa, click "clipboard"
Write message in clipboard
Encrypt message using vendor's key
Copy encrypted text
Paste encrypted text in message
Title: Re: Regarding Liberte and Gnu PGP
Post by: enderseven on March 30, 2013, 02:46 am
Awesome, thanks! Didn't know about the clipboard in gnu. It works now :)
Title: Re: Regarding Liberte and Gnu PGP
Post by: hojasanta on April 03, 2013, 12:00 am
sure thing, glad to help! there's a newbie sticky thread where you can post your public key and practice encrypting/decrypting too:

http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=107219.0