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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: DocNice on February 08, 2012, 08:14 am
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Im new and was hoping someone would help me test gpg im running Liberte Linux on external drive!
Thanx:)
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What i did was just make a dummy key and tested by sending a message from my real key to my dummy key. But yea I feel ya its hard to figure out on your own, took me forever. I would let you test on me but I run my gpg on Linux from a flash drive and I'm in windows right now and don't wanna reboot.
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Thanx anyway bobby:) I am sure someone will be along to give a helping hand soon:)
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Hi,
I am using gpg on linux.
1. create your own key-pair:
gpg --gen-key
2. create an ASCII dump of your public key, to give away to anyone who wants to send encrypted messages to you:
gpg -a --export [key-id] > mypublickkey.txt
key-id is the ID you entered when creating the account, mypublickkey will contain your public key in a format that can
be used in the forum, in emails, etc.
3. open a file with your favorite text-editor and paste some public-key into it (you can use mine, see below). If the file is named "X.txt", do:
gpg --import X.txt
4. to decrypt a file sent to you:
gpg --decrypt [encrypted_file] > [decrypted_file]
5. to encrypt a file for copy-paste:
gpg -a --encrypt [cleartext_file]
You will then be asked for the key-ID(s) to encrypt the file for. The encrypted file will be named like the cleartext file, with ".asc" at the end.
There are of course a lot of other things you can do with gpg, like signing documents, etc., but the above is what you will need to start with.
Here is my public-key, if you want to test it:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux)
mQENBE8DIQYBCAC+5jjxxqQe385qHsfT3A1SxP5dqOB2XQNu/aLp4nbqGan6whQd
cT7V52tfR2oY4ALGewRHedqjzdhIgg4Z8cXEoY8ur/Fsj1HMIKaIvYfQobp/K0Ne
DiNQITTFCKntbjf6z2x2vUQ8z0BVkEmzdACRkMRB3HI2+tkCQfEoRKkJvll2URU6
zz3zpsGUXp5q2g6prkDUGfP7jqMtt0/NaXwGHqcvuf5fI29Lb+pqZ6F+mrdrpE8J
T0DcH6qCLtKymE0udwreY9v5rldXHf8fN9Cx6SIlxOojjRA0lr+OxlV2kUEp0avR
H5jIGNpBmwCuezMUYq6PztYjLVCOcrREAZAJABEBAAG0IE5vcnRoIE1hbiA8bm9y
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H97bDj1rZ1K0KeuImxmNh0w2pVTGbwflY2QVoB13tz4f09mnYAq80PPXsYatyxrV
zKU+DDCbgo0r2ehH/l3aly9jZmyhCpnQlOAx4+A=
=auRB
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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Thank you I will give it a try:)