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Title: How do I send an Encrypted Message in SR?
Post by: dolfan2500 on December 11, 2011, 06:04 am
I got my PGP Key and i want to know how to send an encypted message in SR.  Im a newbie with this encrypted stuff i downloaded kleopatra.  If someone could help me that would be awesome.  Someone before told me a i have to copy and paste but i need step by step for dummies lol.  Can ya please help a bro out thanx
Title: Re: How do I send an Encrypted Message in SR?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on December 11, 2011, 10:56 pm
...too little info m8, try searching the forum we've all contributed to threads and your solution is probably already written up.

Title: Re: How do I send an Encrypted Message in SR?
Post by: D@rk_St@r on December 12, 2011, 04:14 am
I'm just going to leave this here.... Hope it helps

http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=131.0
Title: Re: How do I send an Encrypted Message in SR?
Post by: dolfan2500 on December 12, 2011, 04:44 am
Hey thanx dark start ive been looking at that for awhile i fiinally go it
Title: Re: How do I send an Encrypted Message in SR?
Post by: Smiletabs on December 13, 2011, 03:29 am
I know you got it, but here it is if you didnt and for others who dont know - in gpg4win do exactly this, get persons public key block -> paste into a notepad and save somewhere -> go to start>programs>gpg4win>gpa and at top click "keys" and click "import key" then scroll to where the .txt (text) file is and double click. it asks you "do you really want to import this key" click yes and it asks you for your keyphrase (which you should have made one to password protect yourself).  Next step - click at top "windows" go to clipboard write a message and click at top "encrypt" and it will pop up the different public keys you have on file. click the correct key that corresponds with that person. thats it youre done.
Title: Re: How do I send an Encrypted Message in SR?
Post by: demarcko on December 15, 2011, 08:29 pm
I actually have a lot of questions and issues regarding this topic myself.

1.) http://4eiruntyxxbgfv7o.onion/imgzapr/upload/005_cleaned.JPG
I went to gpg4win.org , downloaded the client and I could never find the gpa.exe file. All I seem to able to open up is kleopatra which doesn't  have any options for encrypting emails,pm's, etc... and there is no clipboard or any of that stuff I see in half of those pictures.

2.) what's the difference between pgp and gpg?
3.)http://www.pgpi.org/download/
I went to this site and downloaded a version of pgp desktop. This seems to be working fine for me, I can generate keys, I can encrypt txt files, zip files, I can also encrypt messages within emails kinda like how I see most people on here are talking about. Is this version ok to use?

thx for the help.
Title: Re: How do I send an Encrypted Message in SR? -gpg versus pgp
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on December 16, 2011, 05:58 pm
pgp = pretty good privacy
GnuPG = GnuPrivacyGuard = "gpg" = opensource "release" of the pgp technology

- its a play on words..

official home of GnuPG:
http://www.gnupg.org/

official home of Gnu;
https://www.gnu.org

GPG DESCRIPTION
       gpg2 is the OpenPGP part of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It is a tool
       to provide digital encryption and signing services  using  the  OpenPGP
       standard. gpg2 features complete key management and all bells and whis-
       tles you can expect from a decent OpenPGP implementation.
       In contrast to the standalone version gpg, which  is  more  suited  for
       server and embedded platforms, this version is installed under the name
       gpg2 and more targeted to the desktop as it requires several other mod-
       ules  to  be installed.


GPG INTEROPERABILITY
       GnuPG tries to be a very flexible implementation of the  OpenPGP  stan-
       dard. In particular, GnuPG implements many of the optional parts of the
       standard, such as the SHA-512 hash, and the ZLIB and BZIP2  compression
       algorithms.  It  is important to be aware that not all OpenPGP programs
       implement these optional algorithms..

- windows, Mac, Linux may provide out-of-the-box (part of the CD installation say...) an app like 'Kleopatra' which has some pgp / (gpg) functionality, it may not do everything cos us Linux guys do 50/50 commandline / graphica
                               -but then that depends what you want to do...yes?!
                               @ gnupg.org there is a windows installation / build plus a gpa which is i believe a gui frontend for gpg which
                               other users mention they use and works for them, don't know Gtk is included in any of this which is a requirement.
- i don't think there is a 'one post' that fulfills everyones need, ie step-by-step for all the OS' (ie windows or Mac or Linux) what you need
  to do to have your whole desktop setup with pgp...

- i would recommend you use where possible to opensource versions of this stuff, but also balance what that software is going to do for
  you; reason why is there is a chance the particular vendor (=microsoft, or symantec...) may at some point introduce purposefully a bug
  that may compromise your security; at least with the opensource builds the code is public and many techies should be checking
  the code to ensure its integrity blah blah; there have been discoveries in the past where it seemed a particular vendor may have
  been trying to include backdoors for the "authorities" to use ...possibly; then there are bugs which could compromise your security
  at least with opensource there are going to be techies working on the bugs seeing as security is of paramount importance to them
  for which security may not be of much importance to the big players....


Title: Re: How do I send an Encrypted Message in SR?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on December 16, 2011, 06:31 pm
2.) what's the difference between pgp and gpg?
3.)http://www.pgpi.org/download/
I went to this site and downloaded a version of pgp desktop. This seems to be working fine for me, I can generate keys, I can encrypt txt files, zip files, I can also encrypt messages within emails kinda like how I see most people on here are talking about. Is this version ok to use?

thx for the help.

- people here are also using enigmail plugin for thunderbird (again an opensource email client) to integrate the pgp (=gpg) keys etc to decrypt
  and encrypt email messages (not forum messages)

ok