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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: Repulse64 on August 05, 2011, 12:33 am

Title: Need help with PGP sending a message
Post by: Repulse64 on August 05, 2011, 12:33 am
Hey
I understand how to use the program from the tutorials. I'm really confused on how to send a message using there PGP code and yours. You encrypt your message with your own PGP code right ? Then how do you send that so they can read it if its your code? Bitcoin was frustrating enough and I think I met another frustrating thing. Help is much appreciated
Thanks in advance
Title: Re: Need help with PGP sending a message
Post by: captainjojo on August 05, 2011, 12:58 am
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I understand how to use the program from the tutorials. I'm really confused on how to send a message using there PGP code and yours. You encrypt your message with your own PGP code right ? Then how do you send that so they can read it if its your code? Bitcoin was frustrating enough and I think I met another frustrating thing. Help is much appreciated
Thanks in advance

No, you need to encrypt the message using the recipients public PGP key.  For most sellers on SR, you will find the key on their profile page (click on their userid/name when looking at an item or on the main list page).  Copy the key and place it in a text file with an extension of .asc or .pgp

You use the recipients public key to encrypt messages to them and they use your public PGP key to encrypt messages back to you.

The rest of the steps are dependent on what PGP program you are using.  With PGP Desktop, you would double click the '.asc' file you have saved and PGP Desktop would import it (you would see the person email address at that point).  Then whenever you send to that recipient and you indicate 'encrypt' it would look up the public key for that email address.

If you are using Hushmail you can use their hushtools to encrypt the text and then paste the encrypted text into an email.

I am unfamiliar with other programs like GNU PGP but there are probably some threads on the board talking about it.
Title: Re: Need help with PGP sending a message
Post by: Kind Bud on August 07, 2011, 02:18 am
Try this link
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=1048.0

The last post talks about exactly this.