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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: oldcactushand on April 25, 2013, 02:59 pm

Title: GPG not working properly - please help
Post by: oldcactushand on April 25, 2013, 02:59 pm
I'm using GPG Keychain Access on Mac OS X 10.6.8.

Short version: I can import new keys and they show up on the list, but when I try to encrypt something the new keys don't show up, only the ones I've used in the past.

Long version:

I went to import the vendor key like normal, but the right click menu did not have a 'Services' section. I deleted a bunch of stuff in a downloads folder recently, including what I thought to be the GPG installer. Assuming I'd messed it up somehow, I uninstalled GPG using AppCleaner and then installed GPG Keychain Access again.

All my keys were still there. The 'Services' section returned to right click menu and I was able to import the new vendor key. It confirmed who it was and this showed up on the list under the correct name. But now, when I go to encrypt my address, only the keys that were there before show up and the new ones do not, meaning I cannot encrypt anything to them. Something interesting that might help someone work it out: the Silk Road staff key does also not let me import to it.

The only difference between the keys that work and the keys that don't, from what I can tell, is that when you click the little arrow to the left of the vendor key - the ones that work have the sections 'pub', 'uid' and 'sub'. The ones that don't work only have 'pub' and 'uid' (one vendor has 2 'uid').

Any help appreciated. Really really want to buy drugs :)
Title: Re: GPG not working properly - please help
Post by: princeblack49 on April 25, 2013, 03:57 pm
Try this link: https://nightly.gpgtools.org/
I had the same prob once and it fixed it. Let me know if this helps at all.
Title: Re: GPG not working properly - please help
Post by: oldcactushand on April 25, 2013, 04:16 pm
Thanks. I uninstalled GPG and then download and installed the top link 'GPGKeychainAccess-205n.dmg'. Is this what you meant for me to do? Unfortunately there's no difference. Sorry if I'm noobing out, it took me hours to work out this stuff in the first place.
Title: Re: GPG not working properly - please help
Post by: princeblack49 on April 25, 2013, 06:14 pm
This is the copy of the instructions with a more concise link I received when it happened to me. Sorry, I should have gone back to this post and copied it originally. Good luck!

"Try installing/re-installing the nightly build of GPGTools.  This has solved this issue for people in the past. https://nightly.gpgtools.org/GPGTools_Installer-latest.dmg"
Title: Re: GPG not working properly - please help
Post by: fatoldsun on April 25, 2013, 11:04 pm
Remember how I linked you to that site that can do online PGP encryption?

Here's a different site, which does it all in client-side JS, no server calls. It doesn't even offer decryption, so you're not even given an opportunity to think about fucking up.
Note that you'll need to first use the "OpenPGP Key Extraction" link, and then the actual encryption. You can (and should) use Tor with this site.

!!!CLEARNET: http://www.hanewin.net/encrypt/PGencode.htm :CLEARNET!!!

Of course, it's infinitely better to set up a PGP program on your devices, but this is a shortcut for people just wanting to encrypt information to a single vendor's public key.
Title: Re: GPG not working properly - please help
Post by: oldcactushand on April 26, 2013, 07:41 am
Thanks for the help, +1 both of you. Thankfully another user has helped me get started using PortablePGP, so I think I'll stick with that in the meantime.
Title: Re: GPG not working properly - please help
Post by: blackflash8686 on April 26, 2013, 07:58 am
I have Mac using GPG. Read this post i believe your answer is there


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