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Title: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: xx120oklm on July 06, 2012, 02:06 am
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.
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: BanWork on July 06, 2012, 12:50 pm
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
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: BanWork on July 06, 2012, 04:26 pm
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   ::)
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: KYmatt on July 11, 2012, 03:24 pm
great thread GURU. if i knew how to bestow karma i would send it your way. thanks again!

kymatt
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: KatEverdeen209 on July 11, 2012, 03:34 pm
Simply bookmarking =]
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: turqiun on July 12, 2012, 04:19 pm
Thanks for starting this thread. I was so confused on how to work the GPG key. Now maybe people will message me back. Thanks!
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: turqiun on July 12, 2012, 04:49 pm
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?
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: turqiun on July 12, 2012, 09:56 pm
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!
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: LuckyLarms on July 14, 2012, 12:04 am
Okay, so I understand using their public key to send them a message. Does your personal key have a purpose on SR then?
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: UK107 on July 14, 2012, 02:57 am
Portable PGP
http://ppgp.sourceforge.net/
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: hashmat on July 19, 2012, 12:50 pm
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
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: hashmat on July 19, 2012, 01:24 pm
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.
Title: Re: Someone please explain GPG like I'm 5
Post by: KYmatt on July 20, 2012, 07:09 pm
thanks guru. always got the 411 on GPG!