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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: marv on August 15, 2012, 01:34 am
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This guide will show you how to encrypt your address when making a purchase. Most casual buyers will not require an understanding of GPG encryption beyond the need to encrypt your address when making a purchase.
After following this tutorial, you will be able to quickly encrypt your address and enjoy greater peace of mind. You won't believe how easy this will be.
Follow these steps slowly and with peace in your heart. This is very easy to do and everyone reading this can do it. Take as much time as you need.
FIRST, go here and hit the big, green download button: http://www.gpg4win.org/
Install it and remember the folder where it was installed.
Go to the folder where it was installed and double-click 'gpa'.
NOW you're in business.
NEXT, go to your vendor's page and find his PUBLIC KEY; copy his PUBLIC KEY.
OPEN notepad on your computer.
PASTE the vendor's PUBLIC KEY in the notepad. Save it as "HOTSTUFF"; save this on your desktop.
GO BACK to gpa. Click IMPORT.
SELECT the HOTSTUFF.txt file from your desktop.
Click on CLIPBOARD.
A clipboard will open up.
TYPE your address.
CLICK ENCRYPT.
A menu will come up and you will see the PUBLIC KEY you just imported. Select this PUBLIC KEY.
Click OK.
Now your CLIPBOARD will be filled with funny letters.
COPY ALL THE FUNNY LETTERS AND SYMBOLS.
THIS IS YOUR ADDRESS, ENCRYPTED.
PASTE THE ENCRYPTED ADDRESS INTO THE ADDRESS FIELD WHEN YOU ARE MAKING THE PURCHASE WITH THAT VENDOR.
NOW YOU CAN SLEEP JUST A LITTLE EASIER. BUT I RECOMMEND YOU LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WHOLE PROCESS.
THIS IS A GREAT START.
marv
note: if anyone will suggest modifications to this guide to make the process even smoother and more accurate, please let us know.
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hey mate thanks for this, you have literally answered all my questions regarding gpg.A+
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SywCI91kfq0
a video tuto on how to do it!!
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First of all my apologies for the complete noob question..
I am on a mac trying to use GPG Tools to encrypt my info. I can follow the steps listed up until where I need to open the clipboard, there is no clipboard in GPG Tools. I've played around with it for a while and even watched the tutorial, yet I still cant figure it out.
Can anyone help me out?
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I might be wrong... But I think Text Edit is all you need. Give it a try! I'm just figuring it out as well! I just can't Find my public key. I'm afraid I'm going to export my private key. Anybody got the answer? My thread on the bottom of the page has all the deets (short) about what my keys are labeled as- None of them are Pub.
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i could not get HOSTUFF.TXT to work using GPA. I had to use ASC FILE ex HOTSTUFF.ASC YOU CHOOSE ALL FILES TO MAKE WORK also had to generate keys using kleopatra could not generate keys using GPA
hope this helps someone THANKS MARV WAS A GREAT HELP
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i could not get HOSTUFF.TXT to work using GPA. I had to use ASC FILE ex HOTSTUFF.ASC YOU CHOOSE ALL FILES TO MAKE WORK also had to generate keys using kleopatra could not generate keys using GPA
hope this helps someone THANKS MARV WAS A GREAT HELP
As I've said countless times before, GPG4WIN should not be used; you should be using GPG4USB instead. Kleopatra is broken, period -- KLEOPATRA DOES NOT GENERATE STANDARDS-COMPLIANT PGP KEYS, and that is only one of its many faults.
GPG4USB homepage: http://gpg4usb.cpunk.de/index.html
GPG4USB tutorial by Astor: http://32yehzkk7jflf6r2.onion/gpg4usb/
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Kleopatra is broken, period -- KLEOPATRA DOES NOT GENERATE STANDARDS-COMPLIANT PGP KEYS, and that is only one of its many faults.
Now this is a concern I also have with Kleopatra. Not only did it not ask for a password when creating new key-pairs, it also created them VERY quickly (too quickly for me to feel comfortable using the generated keys). In contrast, GPA (on Windows) and Ubuntu's "Passwords and Keys" program both ask you to set a password and take a while to generate the key-pairs - and as well it should since it must create a pair of several-hundred digit long prime numbers which is a CPU intensive process.
So I use Kleopatra for encrypting/decrypting in Ubuntu, but NOT for new key generation. [EDIT: I just found out I don't need Kleopatra to do this after all - Ubuntu has a right-click context menu that I can use to encrypt/decrypt/sign files... duhhhh..... kissing Kleopatra goodbye now!]
I downloaded GPG4USB, but for some reason my machine couldn't run the linux install file. Not sure what the problem is. :-\
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Kleopatra is broken, period -- KLEOPATRA DOES NOT GENERATE STANDARDS-COMPLIANT PGP KEYS, and that is only one of its many faults.
Now this is a concern I also have with Kleopatra. Not only did it not ask for a password when creating new key-pairs, it also created them VERY quickly (too quickly for me to feel comfortable using the generated keys). In contrast, GPA (on Windows) and Ubuntu's "Passwords and Keys" program both ask you to set a password and take a while to generate the key-pairs - and as well it should since it must create a pair of several-hundred digit long prime numbers which is a CPU intensive process.
I haven't used Kleopatra for a long time to generate keypairs, so I tested this out myself. You are absolutely right -- no prompt for a password, and the key was generated in about 15 seconds. Normally key generation takes considerably longer than this, although it must be remembered that Kleopatra does not generate a separate encryption sub-key, which may account for some of the time savings. Your observations are only further ammunition for Kleopatra's abandonment.
So I use Kleopatra for encrypting/decrypting in Ubuntu, but NOT for new key generation. [EDIT: I just found out I don't need Kleopatra to do this after all - Ubuntu has a right-click context menu that I can use to encrypt/decrypt/sign files... duhhhh..... kissing Kleopatra goodbye now!]
I downloaded GPG4USB, but for some reason my machine couldn't run the linux install file. Not sure what the problem is. :-\
Does the start_linux executable in GPG4USB have the executable bit set? If not, why don't you try the chmod +x command, as in:
chmod +x start_linux
NC
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So I use Kleopatra for encrypting/decrypting in Ubuntu, but NOT for new key generation. [EDIT: I just found out I don't need Kleopatra to do this after all - Ubuntu has a right-click context menu that I can use to encrypt/decrypt/sign files... duhhhh..... kissing Kleopatra goodbye now!]
Hrmph! Turns out that whatever encryption the right-click context menu uses can't produce an ASCII-armored file, so it's not use to me! >:(
And I ended up going back to Kleopatra for encryption/decryption in Ubuntu. :-\ With all of its faults, it at least is able to encrypt to ascii and decrypt.
I downloaded GPG4USB, but for some reason my machine couldn't run the linux install file. Not sure what the problem is. :-\
Does the start_linux executable in GPG4USB have the executable bit set? If not, why don't you try the chmod +x command, as in:
chmod +x start_linux
Tried it, but still no dice. Ubuntu recognize the start_linux file as an executable, but clicking/opening it results in absolutely nothing happening. Very strange.
On the bright side, GPG4USB works absolutely fabulously on my Win7 machine! I love the interface and it works like a charm! 8)