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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: hazed on December 16, 2011, 07:03 pm
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so i lost my passphrass password for gpg4win. i uninstalled and installed it twice trying to make a new one, but everytime i reinstall it somehow finds my old information..i also cleaned my registry..ideas?
anyone know of a alternative program to encrypt and decrypt pgp??
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gpg4usb. I use it, just unzip it to a flash drive, it works with windows or linux in one simple package. it has a built in text editor for copy/paste encryption. the only thing It doesn't seem to do is sign or verify signed messages.
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so i lost my passphrass password for gpg4win. i uninstalled and installed it twice trying to make a new one, but everytime i reinstall it somehow finds my old information..i also cleaned my registry..ideas?
Do you mean you no longer have the passphrase for the keys you generated? If so, you could delete those keys from within GPG4win (highlight key, select Keys menu, select Delete Keys) and generate new ones (select Keys menu, select New Key).
Anyway, as to your question: uninstalling GPG4win does *not* remove its data directory (which is where your keys are). To find the data directory, search your system for the files "pubring.gpg" and/or "secring.gpg". Whatever directory those files live in -- for example, C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\gnupg in Windows7 -- is the directory you'll want to delete manually.
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gpg4usb. I use it, just unzip it to a flash drive, it works with windows or linux in one simple package. it has a built in text editor for copy/paste encryption. the only thing It doesn't seem to do is sign or verify signed messages.
I also use gpg4usb. Try updating to the latest version. Sign and verify functionality was added in v0.3.1.
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Has anyone tried using FireGPG? It does require GPG installed on the machine but runs entirely as a Firefox plugin. You can sign, create keys etc all within the browser (it even includes a minimal text editor) just by using a right-click.
The downside:
You have to downgrade Firefox to a v.6 series release to run. It hasn't been updated to work with FF 7 or 8
Just my two bits
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I'm going to try gpg for USB tonight and give that a try. You all are so helpful !! Thanks for being patient. I promise to teach a fellow newbie how to do this when I figure it out. And I WILL figure it out!!!
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gpg4usb seems to work for me. I was also having trouble with gpg4win.