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Q&A Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 20:31:36 77b712 No.56

Post your PGP/GnuPG questions ITT. Answers are welcome too.
Remember: there are no stupid questions.

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 21:16:08 4ecb60 No.57

can you use PGP for instant messaging?

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 21:23:24 77b712 No.58

>>57
OTR is better for IM. Use PGP for email and files transfer, "slow" stuff like that.

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 21:24:27 ba5c2b No.59

>>58
Care to elaborate on OTR, how to use it, verify it, etc.?

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 21:39:03 77b712 No.60

>>59
No anon, sorry. Never used secure IMs. (well Tox, if you consider it one)
Consult https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 22:23:25 ba5c2b No.61

With GPG how can I decrypt a .gpg file to an output file, instead of in-terminal?

"gpg -d /path/to/file.gpg -o something.txt"

Isn't doing the trick?

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 22:24:00 ba5c2b No.62

gpg: WARNING: unsafe enclosing directory ownership on configuration file `/home/niggerhere/.gnupg/gpg.conf'

This is after running

" sudo gpg -u niggerhere -e -r Glenn ~/Desktop/k"

(Some of these names are changed, leave me alone.)

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 22:26:40 9df483 No.63

Can I write and encrypt messages through the terminal? What I do now is writing a text file and then encrypting it hrough the terminal, it's not a problem but I want to know if I'm missing something
Also, how do I really import a public key? For know what I do is importing it through the name or the e-mail, never directly copy&pasting the whole key

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 22:30:09 9df483 No.64

>>63
Disregard my second question, if I am not wrong I just have to write it in a text file, add a gpg extension and use the import command.

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 22:32:05 ba5c2b No.65

>>64
I did it in a text file without .gpg, but failed to get it by name/ email, can you tell me more about your use with name/ email and keyservers?

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 22:47:19 9df483 No.66

>>65
Hey sorry dude I'm an idiot, I played with this thing yesterday and today didn't really remember well, I probably never added a public key with a different method than importing the public key text file

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 22:59:16 ba5c2b No.67

Terrible question, but...

I can now encrypt and decrypt TEXT FILES okay, as well as other types of "Files", but how do I encrypt and decrypt direct chunks of text so that I can paste those ASCII/ Base64 chunks?

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 23:00:36 ba5c2b No.68

>>67
User>> gpg -r UserHere
gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...
Hello, User... This is a test, okay? Okay.
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: processing message failed: eof

^^ See? It won't work?

Anonymous 03/15/15 (Sun) 23:46:14 77b712 No.69

>>68
See >>>/tech/161467
You want to use the -e (--encrypt) when encrypting

Anonymous 03/16/15 (Mon) 00:02:56 ba5c2b No.70

>>69

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"gpg -e -r UserHere" ^^ Yielded that

Anonymous 03/16/15 (Mon) 00:15:05 77b712 No.71

>>70
Yeah, about that...
If you want it in ASCII, add also -a. (--armor)

Anonymous 03/16/15 (Mon) 00:27:44 ba5c2b No.72

>>71
Holy son of testicles.

Thank you so much.

Anonymous 05/16/15 (Sat) 16:35:37 935117 No.81

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Hash: SHA256

Is there a way to verify PGP signatures online?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQExBAEBCAAbFBxSaW4gPHVzZXJAOGNoYW4uY28+BQJVV3G3AAoJEMBD+HG94ckH

NpAH/0ryBxi/ZOh8BHGlRDsakqoPzGoLiKCak/48DAqtuv9VYmBcRzoRg5fA/9RY

oPhAZa+fv88K7EUo+SlD2E8WgCdxkU1/SdmoqM2/ORsiiNv296yePC4VlB0/BNo8

iZ/v75fn7UTrEiQlsOAvpqDNxjIgeUZdSkMAxcTppEMcZ0V89Thf4nOQMkJQmX+j

8sEubzqOhZdDCt7hNVtl2awcsElb7TOffkx+soYLFSU97+obirbRrt/hJX2mP4qK

N70Tq+z0NC0Q0UCpskfroMCqPfwEUqLJ8+BdLJzWlivQrr3hA+AQRpKialPzlaGF

BUy68cA9T8eCQBSpeK4l6oM+1b4=

=jmOH

-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Anonymous 05/18/15 (Mon) 17:35:46 77b712 No.82

>>81

Yes, as long as you have the key.


gpg: Signature made Sat May 16 19:35:03 2015 EEST using RSA key ID BDE1C907
gpg: Good signature from "Rin <user@8chan.co>"

Anonymous 05/18/15 (Mon) 17:51:52 77b712 No.83

>>82

Forgot to answer the question itself. I find it easiest to copy the text to a file/terminal and verify that with gnupg.

Anonymous 05/23/15 (Sat) 21:24:43 97d7ed No.84

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Hash: SHA256

>>57

Yes you can, there are PGP plugins for most xmpp/multiprotocol clients like pidgin,there is also an Foss app for android called conversations, you can find it on f-droid, it supports pgp encryption via OpenKeychain

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQExBAEBCAAbFBxSaW4gPHVzZXJAOGNoYW4uY28+BQJVYPANAAoJEMBD+HG94ckH

riEIAOBNfBW6wfB3Msm3lttYkS+kb82fEpgvL8sr4AINXfNw/GskAgvkBKXKLo0G

vWf4wVr5ekti2zeIoK6qRJZ3VUgfzdoI4ssnm2a4Pp3Bh/85XOXN69+zrEiBIh8G

bNTg4+wszp8Q1R/eglJTwA0isRslvcUP7usEopkhfYu47+wlAoU7j5vqdPV4oJrs

265+60uQptkWSDzuLQwmN0kG+eNUmGtJePAITi344qOMpOxHq2qylvHvyUfQzyG+

D7N51G00OFtk95bNMjY6TBuP1cuTto636RmKdHnpuh5BiIBsTMLJy4sAn+pSUFup

r8n4gbOLVwSS0fIDwMnDDXEDVSs=

=U87g

-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----