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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: kusurichoudai on March 03, 2013, 06:14 am

Title: PGP as it Pertains to SR
Post by: kusurichoudai on March 03, 2013, 06:14 am
Hi there,

Yet another thread started by this newbie today.....sorry...
Is there a guide to PGP (Gpg4win in my case), that is specific to use with SR?

I ask this because I think a lot of confusion arises when people who would have otherwise never had much need for public key encryption read the docs over at gpg4win.org and are confronted with *many* options, and have zero idea which way to go with some of them, and we wonder how out decision my effect the effectiveness / ability to use with others at SR...

So, might there be docs specific to PGP config. for SR useage?

Thanks in Advance,

Title: Re: PGP as it Pertains to SR
Post by: jägermeister on March 03, 2013, 10:14 am
there is a picture tutorial that i think was done for this purpose, and was also published on the forum
you can find it here:

http://p3lr4cdm3pv4plyj.onion/guides/shepj.html  (best to just download the entire site to your computer)


@ step 5 of the tutorial
you don't really need a 50-70 character password

@ importing a public key (down at the end of the tutorial)  &  step 7: encrypting messages
i would do the whole tutorial, and create your own pgp key, what you really need though, SR wise,
is to encrypt messages to your vendor (if you want to encrypt, you'll need to import their key first, which in case of your vendor you will
find on their respective account page, or even listed along with the product description)
under normal circumstances, you are going to need this solely for the purpose of encrypting your address to the vendor, once you've made a purchase


if you have any more questions, just ask