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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: DopeBoyAus on April 10, 2012, 02:52 am

Title: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: DopeBoyAus on April 10, 2012, 02:52 am
Hey would like to know what the best pgp program is for Mac, I've not been able to run anything that makes any sense to me at all. All I really need is a public key that i can send and retrieve messages on. I couldn't even find the clipboard let alone figure out what the actual key I need to post on to my profile...Had it all worked out with my PC but yeah, any experienced mac users please help, any videos/links appreciated, I don't want to spend a lot of time on this so the easier the better. Thanks.
Title: Re: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: Afterlife on April 10, 2012, 05:08 am
Please notify me as well when you have this problem resolved. I am having difficulty using PGP with a MacOS whilst all of my PC friends are basking in PGP glory.
Title: Re: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: Caparino on April 10, 2012, 07:45 am
I'm sitting here laughing because I thought your name was DopeBoyAnus.
Title: Re: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: DopeBoyAus on April 10, 2012, 07:51 am
https://www.igolder.com/PGP/

If you don't mind using an online utility..

Would that be okay? Like would I have the same amount of privacy etc? Should I use tor?

I'm sitting here laughing because I thought your name was DopeBoyAnus.

Lol'd
Title: Re: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: Hempfiles2012 on May 02, 2012, 06:28 am
 >:(This dose not help ???
I spent allot of time getting the GPG system installed on my computer, and getting my favorite vendors saved on the the GPA system.   I do not want to use the igolder because I want to be able to do it on my OS system.  I can not find any where to type a message and have it be encrypted, i.e. clipboard or TextEdit. If anyone has got the GPG to work on the MacOS system could they please help us noobs out :-\
Title: Re: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: Hempfiles2012 on May 02, 2012, 07:03 am
After more searching I have found it
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=7753.0
This will tell you what you need. 8)
Title: Re: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: danknugsdun on May 02, 2012, 01:51 pm
I wouldn't really bother with MAC and PGP.

I tried to get them working together but to no avail. I just installed parallels and installed a Windows operating system and ran PGP from there.

It's a lot more secure through a virtual machine which is what I use day to day when visiting sites like SR and communicating via PGP.
Title: Re: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: randomname on May 02, 2012, 07:34 pm
What is a good VM that you would recommend?
Title: Re: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: CrankedToEleven on May 02, 2012, 09:41 pm
I wouldn't really bother with MAC and PGP.

I tried to get them working together but to no avail. I just installed parallels and installed a Windows operating system and ran PGP from there.

It's a lot more secure through a virtual machine which is what I use day to day when visiting sites like SR and communicating via PGP.

WTF are you talking about? I use PGP with my Mac and it works beautifully. Download the GPG Tools at www.gpgtools.org. There's an installer. Has a great UI for managing your keys. Integrates well with Thunderbird and Mail.app. Easy to encrypt and decrypt messages.
Title: Re: Need help with Mac OS and PGP
Post by: Hempfiles2012 on May 03, 2012, 01:08 am
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WTF are you talking about? I use PGP with my Mac and it works beautifully. Download the GPG Tools at www.gpgtools.org. There's an installer. Has a great UI for managing your keys. Integrates well with Thunderbird and Mail.app. Easy to encrypt and decrypt messages.

Would have to agree ever since I turned on the hot keys for the GPG system it has been working great.  I can use the GPG on almost any text based software i.e. word, text edit.  All I have to to is press: Command, Shift, E,  and the encryption menu come up. Then to decrypt: Command, Shift, D, and the Decryption menu comes up.
I must say that once I figured out how to use the GPG system on the mac I would pick it over the Windows based GPG software.