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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: BohemianGhost on May 15, 2013, 02:08 pm

Title: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: BohemianGhost on May 15, 2013, 02:08 pm
Ok so i have been looking for the DL for the pgp for sr and i cant find it and what i do download only comes up in a text file ,
any help will be appreciated thanks allot ,

Ghost.....
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: dirtybiscuitzz718 on May 15, 2013, 02:10 pm
Not quite sure what the question is here?
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: BohemianGhost on May 15, 2013, 02:14 pm
sorry i should have made it more clear, im looking for a link or some help to download PGP
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: dirtybiscuitzz718 on May 15, 2013, 02:14 pm
http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: BohemianGhost on May 15, 2013, 02:27 pm
i have no idea what i am doing wrong but once i DL the file it is just a text file is this correct?
i am getting no option to install anything, or is there another file to be downloaded for the mac?
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: dirtybiscuitzz718 on May 15, 2013, 02:32 pm
i have no idea what i am doing wrong but once i DL the file it is just a text file is this correct?
i am getting no option to install anything, or is there another file to be downloaded for the mac?

SOrry dude , i know nothing about macs.. maybe try extracting the file? is it zipped or something? Wish i could help more.. you will find better help in the pgp club thread.
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: WishfulThinking on May 15, 2013, 02:40 pm
For a Mac, you want GnuPGP. But be prepared to possibly encounter difficulties. Another option is:
www.igolder.com/PGP and use the online encryption tool.
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: Thekla1 on May 15, 2013, 06:23 pm
gpgtools.org is the place.

Take care.
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: badmanselecta on May 15, 2013, 06:38 pm
It's a bit more complicated getting it set up on mac
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: DoctorFate on May 15, 2013, 06:49 pm
Yeah I would try looking up tutorials for "using PGP on a MAC" 

I found a few but I'm not sure if there are free pgp programs for the mac...

You know how pgp works?  You get a public key, put it in your pgp program, then use your pgp program to encrypt some sensitive information, like your name, with the public key you got.  Then you send that encrypted block of information to the owner of the public key to decrypt and get the information.

Another option could be to use a virtual machine like virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) and run tails (https://tails.boum.org/), which has all the pgp and tor stuff you need.

Or you can just use the virtualbox  to run ubuntu or windows...

Of course it's better to actually setup a dual boot on your computer to run one of these OS's but if you don't know how to do that a virtual machine is a less secure option.

The new pgp club thread is a good place to practice if you want to be sure your can encrypt your personal info:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=107219.0
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: goldenrod on May 15, 2013, 07:44 pm
@DrF

I've downloaded Tails and it's a zipped file. Do I unzip it first and then transfer it to a USB stick or do I transfer the zipped file to the USB stick and then unzip it?
Title: Re: Need help Getting Hold of PGP , please help
Post by: 5 on May 15, 2013, 07:56 pm

Posted by: Thekla1
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gpgtools.org is the place.


I agree!!

happy roading,
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