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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: DMTelf on July 16, 2013, 04:22 pm

Title: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DMTelf on July 16, 2013, 04:22 pm
I've been given a series of address, which I presume have been encrypted by using my public key. I'm not sure how I go about decrypting them however? I'm using thunderbird and enigmail on a mac ...
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: Wadozo on July 16, 2013, 04:59 pm
Copy and paste the encrypted message to the clipboard. Then click DECRYPT. Enter your Private key (password) which you would of created initially when generating your Public Key.
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DMTelf on July 16, 2013, 07:20 pm
Hmm I have copied the message to my clipboard but the decrypt option in thunder-bird is greyed out ... do I have to save it as a text file in text edit and import it and decrypt it in that way? I really can't see how to do it.
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: yunalesca on July 16, 2013, 08:03 pm
Sorry I seriously thought this was a troll at first...

Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DopeNixon on July 16, 2013, 10:33 pm
Yuna, that's probably because he said he has a series of addresses. It's a little strange to have a series before they learned to decrypt. Looks like you'll be good now!
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DMTelf on July 17, 2013, 12:08 am
Copy and paste the encrypted message to the clipboard. Then click DECRYPT. Enter your Private key (password) which you would of created initially when generating your Public Key.

Thing is when I open thunderbird even with the message in my OSX clipboard the decrypt button is greyed out ... so I don't know where to enter it and honestly can not find a decrypt message function anywhere ... maybe I have a blind spot.  ???

Yuna, that's probably because he said he has a series of addresses. It's a little strange to have a series before they learned to decrypt. Looks like you'll be good now!

Yeah I'm kind of reverse engineering my way through this! It's pretty much all up and running apart from this though. I got my sample orders through very quickly, literally about 80 in a few days.
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DMTelf on July 17, 2013, 02:15 am
Bumpety bump. Anyone?
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DMTelf on July 19, 2013, 02:21 pm
Bump.

I don't know if im being retarded but in thunderbird there seems not to be an option to decrypt a message ... there is a decrypt button but it's greyed out unless I open a message in my inbox. The addresses have been mailed to me by users that used my public key to create them but I honestly can't see an option to paste a message into thunderbird then decrypt it ...
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DanDanTheIceCreamMan on July 19, 2013, 03:32 pm
open up the wordpad program and use that. It should work.
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DMTelf on July 19, 2013, 05:24 pm
open up the wordpad program and use that. It should work.

Thank you. Never occurred to me the decrypt option was installed in the OSX right click menu and not in thunderbird.

However when I right click the text file and services > PGP decrypt file it says "Failed decrypting 'Untitled 2.rtf'

Untitled 2.rtf — Decrypt failed!
Code = 0"

Any ideas?
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: MrSmileyFace on July 19, 2013, 05:33 pm
Epic fail man.............?!?!?!!?
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DMTelf on July 22, 2013, 04:16 pm
It's looking like it  >:( What I'll do in a bit is start a thread for users that use OSX for PGP to comment, as I have to use this OS as i'm using a a hackingtosh (fuck buying a mac! I've got a PC 10x faster than any mac on the market) and I appreciate that most users here either use linux or windows. So with a better title hopefully I'll attract more suitable people to help me.

This hackintosh is amazing at mining bitcoins though, I've got more power under this hood than most gamers have, so I absolutely rinse the MAC mining pools.
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: BTC King on July 22, 2013, 10:48 pm
do you have gnupg installed? if yes you can decrypt via the command line just as you could on linux. don't save the text document as .rtf, save it as .txt. that was why you couldn't decrypt. you can send yourself an email with the encrypted message and if you have thunderbird and enigmail set up properly you should be able to decrypt it that way although that's not really how you're supposed to do it lol
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DMTelf on July 24, 2013, 01:53 pm
do you have gnupg installed? if yes you can decrypt via the command line just as you could on linux. don't save the text document as .rtf, save it as .txt. that was why you couldn't decrypt. you can send yourself an email with the encrypted message and if you have thunderbird and enigmail set up properly you should be able to decrypt it that way although that's not really how you're supposed to do it lol

Thanks for the advise, I have luckily just figured it out (thank god, some people have been waiting a week, luckily all reviews are 100% from 30, another 80 to come  :) )

It turns out that simply copying the messages into text edit, selecting the text and right clicking gives me the option share > email (thunderbird)

Then I simply enter my pgp enigmail password and the message pops up decrypted.

Thanks for all the help peeps!
Title: Re: How to decrypt people addresses sent via PGP?
Post by: DMTelf on July 24, 2013, 02:17 pm
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