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Title: PGP Help for linux Newb
Post by: Jello on October 10, 2012, 07:17 pm
I just installed Fedora 17 on my computer and am completely new to linux. Most things i was able to find and understand online but i'm having trouble setting up pgp. I'd like to have an application to use instead of doing it in the terminal(if possible) but if you can only use the terminal that's cool too. Also i already have a pgp key from windows, should i just create a new one?  The main problem i have is encrypting messages, and saving keys. I'd like to figure this out today hopefully. Any and all help is greatly appreciated  ;D
Title: Re: PGP Help for linux Newb
Post by: boaclon224 on October 10, 2012, 07:47 pm
I haven't used it myself (I'm very much a terminal guy,) but seahorse is the gnome frontend to gnupg, and should be pretty and easy to understand, and available from fedora's package manager.

I expect there is general gpg info on the wiki, and there's tons on this forum, so read up, and ask when you're confused, and you'll get there! It isn't so hard once you wrap your head around it.
Title: Re: PGP Help for linux Newb
Post by: Jello on October 10, 2012, 08:07 pm
I haven't used it myself (I'm very much a terminal guy,) but seahorse is the gnome frontend to gnupg, and should be pretty and easy to understand, and available from fedora's package manager.

I expect there is general gpg info on the wiki, and there's tons on this forum, so read up, and ask when you're confused, and you'll get there! It isn't so hard once you wrap your head around it.
Thanks that helped...kind of mad it was that easy. Anyway mind telling me how to encrypt a message through terminal?
Title: Re: PGP Help for linux Newb
Post by: Nightcrawler on October 10, 2012, 09:24 pm
I just installed Fedora 17 on my computer and am completely new to linux. Most things i was able to find and understand online but i'm having trouble setting up pgp. I'd like to have an application to use instead of doing it in the terminal(if possible) but if you can only use the terminal that's cool too. Also i already have a pgp key from windows, should i just create a new one?  The main problem i have is encrypting messages, and saving keys. I'd like to figure this out today hopefully. Any and all help is greatly appreciated  ;D

When you go to add/remove software, you need to add the component titled, "Plugins and utilities for encryption in GNOME".
The file is seahorse-plugins-2.91.6-0.4.git...

This plugin allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify directly from within gedit.  Under gedit's Edit menu, if the seahorsae plugin is installed and activated, you should see under Edit, the Sign, Encrypt and Decrypt/Verify options.

In gedit, go to Preferences, and choose the Plugins tab on the far right. Put a check in the box besides Text Encryption. This will activate the Seahorse gedit plugin, and turn on the Encrypt, Sign and Decrypt/Verify options under Edit in the gedit menu.

Title: Re: PGP Help for linux Newb
Post by: Jello on October 11, 2012, 03:31 am
I just installed Fedora 17 on my computer and am completely new to linux. Most things i was able to find and understand online but i'm having trouble setting up pgp. I'd like to have an application to use instead of doing it in the terminal(if possible) but if you can only use the terminal that's cool too. Also i already have a pgp key from windows, should i just create a new one?  The main problem i have is encrypting messages, and saving keys. I'd like to figure this out today hopefully. Any and all help is greatly appreciated  ;D

When you go to add/remove software, you need to add the component titled, "Plugins and utilities for encryption in GNOME".
The file is seahorse-plugins-2.91.6-0.4.git...

This plugin allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify directly from within gedit.  Under gedit's Edit menu, if the seahorsae plugin is installed and activated, you should see under Edit, the Sign, Encrypt and Decrypt/Verify options.

In gedit, go to Preferences, and choose the Plugins tab on the far right. Put a check in the box besides Text Encryption. This will activate the Seahorse gedit plugin, and turn on the Encrypt, Sign and Decrypt/Verify options under Edit in the gedit menu.
That's extremely helpful, i have all my keys imported. I figured out how to encrypt a message via right clicking the file. But then i don't know what to do with the .pgp, how do i copy the message and place it here? Also i have the seahorse plugins installed or so yumex says. I'm guessing i didn't activate it, in which case how do i do that? Sorry for the dumb questions but hey we all gotta start at one point  ::)..



I lied this is what yumex says, that doesn't change me having no idea what to do though... ;)
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Package seahorse-plugins-2.91.6-0.4.git1e35fd9.fc17.x86_64 is obsoleted by seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64 which is already installed
Title: Re: PGP Help for linux Newb
Post by: Nightcrawler on October 11, 2012, 06:43 am
I just installed Fedora 17 on my computer and am completely new to linux. Most things i was able to find and understand online but i'm having trouble setting up pgp. I'd like to have an application to use instead of doing it in the terminal(if possible) but if you can only use the terminal that's cool too. Also i already have a pgp key from windows, should i just create a new one?  The main problem i have is encrypting messages, and saving keys. I'd like to figure this out today hopefully. Any and all help is greatly appreciated  ;D

When you go to add/remove software, you need to add the component titled, "Plugins and utilities for encryption in GNOME".
The file is seahorse-plugins-2.91.6-0.4.git...

This plugin allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify directly from within gedit.  Under gedit's Edit menu, if the seahorsae plugin is installed and activated, you should see under Edit, the Sign, Encrypt and Decrypt/Verify options.

In gedit, go to Preferences, and choose the Plugins tab on the far right. Put a check in the box besides Text Encryption. This will activate the Seahorse gedit plugin, and turn on the Encrypt, Sign and Decrypt/Verify options under Edit in the gedit menu.
That's extremely helpful, i have all my keys imported. I figured out how to encrypt a message via right clicking the file. But then i don't know what to do with the .pgp, how do i copy the message and place it here? Also i have the seahorse plugins installed or so yumex says. I'm guessing i didn't activate it, in which case how do i do that? Sorry for the dumb questions but hey we all gotta start at one point  ::)..



I lied this is what yumex says, that doesn't change me having no idea what to do though... ;)
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Package seahorse-plugins-2.91.6-0.4.git1e35fd9.fc17.x86_64 is obsoleted by seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64 which is already installed


In gedit, go to Edit --> Preferences, and choose the Plugins tab on the far right. Put a check in the box besides Text Encryption. This will activate the Seahorse gedit plugin, and turn on the Encrypt, Sign and Decrypt/Verify options under Edit in the gedit menu.

Title: Re: PGP Help for linux Newb
Post by: creep1 on October 11, 2012, 04:54 pm
Or you could try this really easy tool. http://gpg4usb.cpunk.de/
Title: Re: PGP Help for linux Newb
Post by: Jello on October 11, 2012, 09:29 pm
Thanks for the responses. I just read KmfKewm's command line tut and found it very useful. It has actually given me some motivation to learn some command line commands  :D.