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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: foxymeow on December 08, 2011, 04:35 am

Title: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: foxymeow on December 08, 2011, 04:35 am
Hey,

I have a Mac and I have installed GPG Keychain Access and I have created my public key. However, it only manages keys and does not decrypt messages. How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: TheAmish on December 09, 2011, 04:40 am
Hey Foxy
here is a link to a pretty good tutorial. http://www.robertsosinski.com/2008/02/18/working-with-pgp-and-mac-os-x/

can I ask what version of OS X you are using? (10.5.8 etc?)

also there was a pretty good thread about this already if you just keep clicking through the security forum :)
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: Chopperos on December 09, 2011, 07:17 am
Hi Foxy,

I tried the link above and couldnt really get my head round it.

So I installed Thunderbird, linked my email accounts and downloaded the add in called Enigmail.

Really easy to use.
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on December 09, 2011, 10:55 am
pgp is the technology, either:-

"primarily" email
1. if you specifically want to encrypt / decrypt emails in a mailbox then aside from cut & paste to decrypt messages yourself a program could do that for you, and yes in this
case it would have to be able to auto integrate into thunderbird if thats what your email prog is..{since the user wants automation and why should the user have to manually decrypt every single poxy msg ...yes]
            - trying to email a pgp signed email to the forum users as if it were sent from the forum is not going to be of much use with thunderbird cos you'd  need to
              know their email address hypothetically...; the only way to send an encrypted message from the "send pm" functionality on this forum would be to encrypt
              the text yourself and manually cut & paste the signed pgp resulting text into a forum 'send message' window and send....

encrypt files/text
2. now pgp or the other incarnations like GnuPGP {=GPG}  {pgp being the technology...yes?!} allow us to encrypt & decrypt messages typed up in notepad / gedit / wordpad etc etc, but in some cases it has to be done from the commandline if for example symantec's pgp GUI doesn't provide that functionality...

ok
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on December 09, 2011, 11:14 am
Hey,

I have a Mac and I have installed GPG Keychain Access and I have created my public key. However, it only manages keys and does not decrypt messages. How do I decrypt messages in Mac?

...not using a mac for SR, but this seems to be one of the GnuPG tools for mac:
http://www.gpgtools.org/screencast.htm

ok
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: White Light on December 09, 2011, 12:13 pm
Hey,

I have a Mac and I have installed GPG Keychain Access and I have created my public key. However, it only manages keys and does not decrypt messages. How do I decrypt messages in Mac?

Hi,
There a very helpful thread about GPG for mac. You have to configure "Services" to add functions " Open PGP Encrypt" and "Open PGP decrypt" in this menu, then you have to highlight the message you to decrypt an select the service "Open PGP decrypt".

WL
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: Queus on December 10, 2011, 04:25 am
You do all the encrypting and decrypting inside the textedit app. The screencast link above explains this very well. :)
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: foxymeow on December 10, 2011, 05:50 pm
I honestly just gave up and I am doing it on my windoze desktop.

I'll try those things though.
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on December 10, 2011, 08:33 pm
I honestly just gave up and I am doing it on my windoze desktop.

I'll try those things though.

tut tut tut  ...and i thought a mac was easy to use...
if you don't learn anything gal, gates' satanic organisation will continue to make money...
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on January 07, 2012, 07:34 am
..is gpg working on Mac yet?

  ???
Title: Re: How do I decrypt messages in Mac?
Post by: jochem on January 07, 2012, 04:45 pm
It works.

- Install GPGTools for Mac: http://www.gpgtools.org/

- Open up GPG Keychain Access and generate a key for yourself.

- Export your public key, so you can give it to others (others will use it to encrypt messages for you, which you can ONLY decrypt with your private key. So keep your private key very VERY secure!!).

- Import any public keys of people you want to communicate securely with.

- Open System Preferences, go to Keyboard and click Services in the left pane. In the right pane, enable all 'OpenPGP' options under 'Text'.

- Start TextEdit, type something, select the text and you'll get the options to encrypt (or decrypt) it. Information you want to send to someone, you encrypt it with their public key. Information you receive which is encrypted by your public key, can be decrypted using your private key.

If you want you can also configure it to use Mail.app or Thunderbird, this means you don't have to manually encrypt and decrypt e-mail messages (the mail program will do it for you, automatically selecting the right key, etc). I believe Mail.app works out of the box, Thunderbird requires an extension like Enigmail.