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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: bnb001 on October 04, 2013, 10:08 pm
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I may or may not be a girl. I may or may not be better at cooking up a storm rather than encrypting emails.
I have a mac, have installed thunderbird and the add on enigmail, and after much step-by-step reading and you tube video watching, have successfully managed to encrypt an email to someone BUT it's coming as an attachment to them which of course they won't open because of the risks SO how the hell do I use someones public key to encrypt a message
Break it down, retard-style
Cheers :)
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search GPG4Win, get it from the project official page. Look for the link to the GPG4Win Compendium - it's your instruction manual.
Once it's installed etc import their key to your key ring then you can click 'message' in cryptophane, type what you want, select who to encrypt it to from the keys in your ring, sign it, and it'll paste the encrypted message onto your clipboard. If you're already lost read the compendium from page 1.
*Edit Mac: nvm. Search GPG4Mac and try everything else the same? lol dunno
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Thank you so much - no time to try right now but will later
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I may or may not be a girl. I may or may not be better at cooking up a storm rather than encrypting emails.
I have a mac, have installed thunderbird and the add on enigmail, and after much step-by-step reading and you tube video watching, have successfully managed to encrypt an email to someone BUT it's coming as an attachment to them which of course they won't open because of the risks SO how the hell do I use someones public key to encrypt a message
Break it down, retard-style
Cheers :)
Screw GPG4Win, it's a Windows piece of shit. Enigmail is great for decrypting incoming email. For sending encrypted mail, I prefer to do it manually. Use GPGTools to encrypt your message on the clipboard, then copy and paste the encrypted message into the Thunderbird compose window. That is hands-down the easiest way to do it.
Nightcrawler
4096R/BBF7433B 2012-09-22 Nightcrawler <Nightcrawler@SR>
PGP Key: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=174.msg633090#msg633090
PGP Key Fingerprint = 83F8 CAF8 7B73 C3C7 8D07 B66B AFC8 CE71 D9AF D2F0
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When you say encrypt message on the clipboard - which clipboard? In which programme? How to encrypt with someones public key? So if someone says 'this is my public key 'xxxx' please use it to encrypt emails to me' - what do I do with it? Do I compose a message 'xxHi, how are you?xx' so put my text in the middle of the big code they give me?
I just dont get it? ???
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When you say encrypt message on the clipboard - which clipboard? In which programme? How to encrypt with someones public key? So if someone says 'this is my public key 'xxxx' please use it to encrypt emails to me' - what do I do with it? Do I compose a message 'xxHi, how are you?xx' so put my text in the middle of the big code they give me?
I just dont get it? ???
When he says clipboard, he means a program like notepad,I don't know about the mac version, but I have PGP desktop for windows, and this is how I do it, I hope it will help you..
1.Open up notepad, and copy, and paste whatever vendors public key into notepad, and save as whatever.
2.Open up the PGP program that you're using, go up to file, and click "Import" choose the notepad file you saved with the vendors public key, open it, and that vendors info should be locked into your PGP program as a contact.
That's how you import public keys into the program, but to actually compose a message, and encrypt it, I couldn't tell you since we use different programs, but youtube could help you better than we can right now.