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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: xx120oklm on July 06, 2012, 02:06 am
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I have the program, GPG4win v 2.0 downloaded on my computer. What I'm having trouble understanding is how to use a public key to encrypt a message. I understand there is a tutorial somewhere on this forum which I tried to follow but am still confused. I open up the clip board, encrypt their public key..? And then...? D: I feel so dumb.
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I read up on this lots when I first joined and I still didn't fully get it. It becomes much clearer when you start using it.Gurus guide above should get you started. If you want to practice you can try sending me an encrypted pm. :)
My public key is:
[edit ]Not here any more until I sort it out
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Many thanks Guru. +1 to you kind Sir ;)
Panicked, gutman erased anything to do with that key then re-read your message. Think I will change my SR account too.
Will stick to Tormail in future!
phew ::)
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great thread GURU. if i knew how to bestow karma i would send it your way. thanks again!
kymatt
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Simply bookmarking =]
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Thanks for starting this thread. I was so confused on how to work the GPG key. Now maybe people will message me back. Thanks!
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Ok one more thing I don't get. How do you send a message to someone on here using their key block. Do you send your message from the GPG software to their SR name or what?
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Ok one more thing I don't get. How do you send a message to someone on here using their key block. Do you send your message from the GPG software to their SR name or what?
No. You use GPG to encrypt the message to the recipient, using their key, which you should have already added to your keyring.
You then copy the encrypted message to the clipboard, and paste the encrypted message into a PM to the recipient.
Guru
OOHHH ok I got it. Thanks for that, makes sense now!
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Okay, so I understand using their public key to send them a message. Does your personal key have a purpose on SR then?
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Portable PGP
http://ppgp.sourceforge.net/
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hey guru, great help here mate.
Im stuck on one thing, how do i put my key into my signature, or send it to others?
I can copy paste keys from vendors pages, but when on a forum like this, the key is one line eg:http://aroundadozencharacters.onion/which is which?
which one is your public key? Hope this aint too stupid a question, cos i cant wrap my head around it.
Ive done my tormail, my own key using gpg4usb, but my brain is full of data man, too many drugs
have shrunk the size of my cranial harddrive. ???
thanx
matman72@tormail.org
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Dis that last request, unless, ive fucked it all up somehow ::).
loooks right, lol.
Thanx to all and the other numerous threads on this topic, i worked it out.
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thanks guru. always got the 411 on GPG!