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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: BUFFALOZERO on January 04, 2013, 12:48 pm
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Hi everyone,
I've spent all morning trying to figure out how to encrypt my address when making a purchase, but despite reading as much as I can on the forum threads, I'm really struggling.
Can anyone help me, please? I'm all good-to-go, but no conception of how to do this.
Thank you.
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Are you running Windows?
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Check out GPG4USB, it's a very simple pgp program to use.
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Hi,
Yes, Windows 7.
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You will need encryption software - Have you downloaded this yet?
e.g. PGP Desktop? GPG4win?
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pgp4usb is the easiest thing I have found, you might be up and running in 10 minutes or so. Here's a link to a very good tutorial written by member named astor, it has screenshots:
http://32yehzkk7jflf6r2.onion/gpg4usb/
Good luck!
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1. Download GPG4Win from www.gnupg.org
2. Install GPG4Win. As part of this installation you will get the "GNU Privacy Assistant" or "GPA" which is what you will use to encrypt and decrypt PGP messages.
3. On SR, highlight and copy the seller's public PGP block (the whole thing that begins with "------BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" and ends with "-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----")
4. Open Windows Notepad and paste the copied PGP block, then save the text file (save it as any name you want - it doesn't matter).
5. Open GPA and click on "IMPORT", then locate the text file you saved the public key as, select it and hit enter.
Voila! You've just imported their public key! To encrypt something for that person:
1. in the GPA program just click on Windows menu item, then Clipboard. This brings up a clipboard/text editor that you can type or paste your message text into.
2. Once you've got the message you want to encrypt, just press the "ENCRYPT" button, then select the person's public key (it will be listed by the name/email they used to create the key, which will probably be almost identical to their SR vendor name), then press "OK" and click "YES" when it asks you if you really want to use that key.
Now the message in the clipboard is encrypted. Copy the encrypted text (all of it!) and paste it into the email or PM you want to send to that person. Only they will be able to decrypt and read the message.
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1. Download GPG4Win from www.gnupg.org
2. Install GPG4Win. As part of this installation you will get the "GNU Privacy Assistant" or "GPA" which is what you will use to encrypt and decrypt PGP messages.
3. On SR, highlight and copy the seller's public PGP block (the whole thing that begins with "------BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" and ends with "-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----")
4. Open Windows Notepad and paste the copied PGP block, then save the text file (save it as any name you want - it doesn't matter).
5. Open GPA and click on "IMPORT", then locate the text file you saved the public key as, select it and hit enter.
Voila! You've just imported their public key! To encrypt something for that person:
1. in the GPA program just click on Windows menu item, then Clipboard. This brings up a clipboard/text editor that you can type or paste your message text into.
2. Once you've got the message you want to encrypt, just press the "ENCRYPT" button, then select the person's public key (it will be listed by the name/email they used to create the key, which will probably be almost identical to their SR vendor name), then press "OK" and click "YES" when it asks you if you really want to use that key.
Now the message in the clipboard is encrypted. Copy the encrypted text (all of it!) and paste it into the email or PM you want to send to that person. Only they will be able to decrypt and read the message.
With all due respect, GPG4WIN is the cause of at least 90% of the PGP-related complaints on here. Kleopatra, in particular, is broken; the entire package should be shot, pissed-on, and buried. GPG4USB is a far, far, better alternative. I've been told that people have struggled with GPG4WIN for days, then switched to GPG4USB, and were up and running in minutes.
NC
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With all due respect, GPG4WIN is the cause of at least 90% of the PGP-related complaints on here. Kleopatra, in particular, is broken; the entire package should be shot, pissed-on, and buried. GPG4USB is a far, far, better alternative. I've been told that people have struggled with GPG4WIN for days, then switched to GPG4USB, and were up and running in minutes.
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I wasn't aware of that. I've found them both (GPA and Kleopatra) pretty easy to use, the only problem I've encountered has to do with Notepad sometimes not displaying the carriage returns/end of lines correctly on pasted text (but it works if you paste it into MS Word). Mostly I use Linux now and Kleopatra to encrypt/decrypt.
I never heard of GPG4USB - I'll check it out! 8)
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With all due respect, GPG4WIN is the cause of at least 90% of the PGP-related complaints on here. Kleopatra, in particular, is broken; the entire package should be shot, pissed-on, and buried. GPG4USB is a far, far, better alternative. I've been told that people have struggled with GPG4WIN for days, then switched to GPG4USB, and were up and running in minutes.
NC
I wasn't aware of that. I've found them both (GPA and Kleopatra) pretty easy to use, the only problem I've encountered has to do with Notepad sometimes not displaying the carriage returns/end of lines correctly on pasted text (but it works if you paste it into MS Word). Mostly I use Linux now and Kleopatra to encrypt/decrypt.
I never heard of GPG4USB - I'll check it out! 8)
I'd never heard of GPG4USB before either, until someone mentioned it here in the Forums. When I looked at it, I was literally blown away at the interface -- it's pure simplicity.
NC
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Im running on mac osx, any DL links?
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Im running on mac osx, any DL links?
As far as I know we have/had two mac guys. One is gone / left / not here anymore. The other is offline so I dug this up for you. If it's not what you need search posts by member Nightcrawler. Hope this helps:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=75073.msg599544#msg599544
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I'm on ubuntu
yes dumbquestion, which should i use?
thanks
Some people who try to use Kleopatra end up with mental problems (see Nightcrawler's comments regarding the shooting, then pissing on followed by burial of Kleopatra. I want to be there when it happens. In addition, after it is buried, I would like to see the ground where the beast is buried shot to shit - riddled with bullets.
Use pgp4usb ...
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I'm on ubuntu
yes dumbquestion, which should i use?
thanks
GPG4USB has both Linux and Windows executables.
NC
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go to silk roads forum search marv when results come up lok for BARE BONES GUIDE FOR ENCRYPTION helped me alot