Quote from: skhai on September 23, 2012, 07:18 pmI need a step by step hand holding tutorial or great link. Do i need source or binary? whats preferred address and where do i find it? C'mon this is a lot of spot knowkledge and i already cant even dl w/o more info. I foolishly FE'd my first purchase with a vendor @99% sposedly bcuz im a newbie he said i have to do that.Its been a week.and neither the vendor or SR help has responded to my messages. I am out 170$ and NO WAY to even get in touch with vendor if he doesnt choose to read msgs thru the SR GUI? Do lots of vendors only respond to PGP msgs? I've been ignored everywhere else. There is no tutorial on how to set up and use PGP and this forum would take five days to read it all and its chaotic and not helpful due to lack of HOW TO step by step. Thx.Follow these steps:1. Google GPG and download GPG (this is the open source implementation of PGP) for your operating system (& the GUI version unless you hanker for the command line!).http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html (google "GPG4USB" as an alternative if this doesn't work for you)2. Install, and then run a program called GPA (GNU privacy assistant).3. Go to 'Keys' on the menu and create a PGP key. You will need to decide on 3 things:  - how secure the encryption is, represented by key length e.g. 2048 bit, 4096 bit and so on.  - what name to use. I strongly advise this to be your SR username on the forums so I can find you later.  - what email to use. You should use either a fake email or a tormail a/c email address.4. Then PM me your public key. You get this by selecting copy on your PGP key you created in the GPA list of keys and pasting it in the PM.5. Next, import my public key. This is in my 2nd post in my PGP thread. Just copy paste that into a text file  e.g. with notepad or gedit, and save it as pine.txt or pine.gpg or whatever you like.6. Import that key into the GPA.7. Go to the clipboard and make a message to me. Then select encrypt and choose my public key to encrypt it   with. Then PM that to me.8. Then I will report back to you with results! Remember that a public key is like a mobile number or an email address. You need one from somebody in order to communicate with them. A private key is more like the password to your email a/c, you keep that secret.