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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Authentique Core on March 25, 2012, 11:46 am

Title: GPG Mac Problem
Post by: Authentique Core on March 25, 2012, 11:46 am
Greetings here on the board. I've got a really simple yet baffling problem that maybe someone can shed light on. I've had a long night, so forgive the simplicity from which I'll speak about technical matters. In other words, this is my best, non-technical description of a problem I do not have the time to thoroughly investigate, at the moment.

I am using Mac GPG tools. Now, I used to try my GPG Key, where I could easily encrypt a message. Thanks to a forum response, I finally figured out in order to "lock" and "unlock" my secret messages, I simply had to switch on these Services in the System Preferences, under "Keyboard". Having done that, I got the hang of Encrypting my messages easily enough.

Now there's been some time since I practiced this... I went to go encrypt my first msg on Silk Road, and now I see that there is nothing under services to choose "Encrypt". When trying to switch this back "ON" in the system preferences, Keyboard>>Services>> there is no option of checkboxes to enable GPG options like Encrypt, etc... Taking advice here, I went to GPG Preferences and tried to press "FIX". You can see I am relatively primitive in my technical wanderings, tonight. But again, there is no option to get those Services enabled. "Fix GPG" didn't work.

I'm curious if anyone here has an inkling whats going on here? How did that disappear, and how do I switch on that ability to bring back those Services in the drop down menu, or when for instance, I right-click on a text? How do I get GPG commands back in Services?

Thanx to those who are patient reading this, I had a long night and my brain is not at its most communicative, nor thorough.

"AC"
Title: Re: GPG Mac Problem
Post by: oktoy on March 25, 2012, 06:17 pm
I believe there is a bug where GPGTools creates 2 sets of Services. I think one does nothing and the other needs to be enabled manually. They should be called "OpenPGP:" Encrypt, Decrypt, etc.

Another heads up, and maybe this is just a problem on my Mac, but GPGTools doesn't seem to work properly in the Aurora browser (which is what Tor comes with). If you try encrypt something, you might find your list of public/private keys empty. So I have to write things in TextEdit, encrypt, copy, paste. Annoying.