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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: peta456 on April 24, 2013, 02:59 am
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So I have been having issues setting this up, I cannot seem to find a good program that works. Can anyone recommended one?
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I use GPG tools: https://gpgtools.org/
It's a bit confusing at first because it wants to hook up to your Mail app, but there are ways to get around this. Once it's installed, go to system preferences -> keyboard -> services and check off all of the OpenPGP keyboard shortcut options (eg OpenPGP encrypt selection = command+shift+E, etc). Now you're almost ready to encrypt a message. In the GPG app you downloaded you will have the option to import a public key. Take mine for example:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin)
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=S1Dh
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Copy that, and paste it in a TextEdit file. Make sure that the file type is plain text (format -> make plain text; it will be in typewriter font). Save it (i call the file "import"), go to the GPG program (GPG Keychain Access) and import the file. Now you can write me a little love letter in text edit. Highlight it, press command+shift+E. check off the PGP key you imported and in the drop down menu "secret key", select yourself. Hit OK, and congratulations, you just encrypted your very first message! Paste it here and i'll verify you did it right. I can then show you how to decrypt a message.
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having the same issue ... would love a tutorial for MAC
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Same goes to you, then, hackthegibson, give the above a try and post your results here.
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-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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ujui2r4KT2/g
=gSgK
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
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It also gives me options to sign and encrypt with password. Do I want to do these things?
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Well jeez, I feel like a jerk- I forgot my decryption password for the public key, so I can't decrypt your message. Since you generated an encrypted message in the first place, I'll bet that you got it right, but in case you want to try again, I'll post my new public key below. To answer your questions, signing is not necessary for us, especially as buyers. As for the latter, I'm not sure what you mean, so I can't quite give a satisfactory answer. I am a functional GPG user and should spend more time learning about its other features.
Regardless, this is how you decrypt a message:
Right click on your own line in GPG Keychain Access (it's bold and says: sec [your name] [your email] [date created] etc..) -> export. Save it as whatever you like and open the file in TextEdit. That's your public key. Post it here and I'll use it to send you an encrypted message. You will decrypt it by pasting the message in TextEdit -> highlighting it beginning to end -> command+shift+D -> the passphrase you made the key with. Voila!
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-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin)
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=oHBu
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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Sweet it worked!
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On Mac, If you just want to encrypt, you can use simplegpgencrypt, a frontend for gpgtools, that makes it all very easy:
- copy public key (e.g. from vendor page) in the top first field
- type (or copy) your text (e.g. your address) in the second text field
- press the button
- copy the encrypted text from the third text field (and paste it e.g. in your order address on SR)
Easy does it, saves you the trouble of remembering command line stuff and is more user friendly than gpg keychain access.
It's open source and on google code. I checked the code and built it myself, but the provided binary looks good too.
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Well done Peta! If you have any other questions that may be more technical in nature I can direct you to the newbie PGP club: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=107219.0