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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: trainer739 on February 05, 2012, 07:37 pm
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I know this kind of question gets asked all of the time but I think I must just be on another scale of bk-ishness when it comes to the apparently simple task of encrypting your address and any other information for that matter. I have looked an numerous other explanations of how to do this and watched youtube vids etc but I can't get my head around it! I'm basically apologising in advance for asking these questions, anyway.
When I go to the order page, all there is is a breakdown of what I'm ordering and a box to type your address. I understand it's an unsaid rule to encrypt your address but I can't understand how I'd go about doing this with only a box to use? If the seller hasn't given out any e-mail address and there's no attachment link for the message, do I simply copy + paste the sellers public PGP code into the start of the box and type my message in after and that automatically encrypts the message?
I've tried using Kleopatra to encrypt my message -> I wrote sellers PGP code into notepad, imported it, wrote my message into notepad, encrypted it with sellers imported certificate and my own private one - is that the right way to go about it?
Thanks for any replies!
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I believe you are looking for this... http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=131.0
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You are pretty much there.
1. You don't need to encrypt with your private key; just the vendor's public key.
2. On the first page of the encryption process, choose output format as "ASCII Armor". This will create an output file with a ".asc" extension. This is plain old ASCII file, which you can open with any editor, and cut and paste the contents into the web form that asks for address.
3. You usually put your PUBLIC key (NOT PRIVATE) into the same file as the address, before encrypting it. This is so the vendor can use it to encrypt messages to you (if he has to). You can cut and paste this after exporting your PUBLIC key in the "ASCII Armor" format (plain ASCII).
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Woo thanks for your help wxevkexi