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Encryption does not need anything, decryption needs your private key and might ask for the password for your key.Īll you need is to download ZIP archive: 32bit/ 64bit, unpack it and call for setup.bat file. Do not forget to add yourself if you want to read back your encrypted texts. Every time you want to send encrypted data for somebody, select their public keys from the list (multiple selections allowed). Now you’re ready to import/export files and texts and send it to your contact persons. So you need to select your private key, push to “Export Keys” button, and in the opened pull-down menu specify the output file name and specify “public keys” option. The last step you need to extract your public key from the system and send it to all your recipients (or publish somewhere like the corporate portal, so everybody will able to get your public keys), as follows: Do not forget to import all known public keys into WinGPG system, you might need as many keys as you have recipients.Ĩ. Great, now you have everything configured.

Do not forget to check “Use default keys” option below the key list as displayed. Use right-click in the list for the selected key and then use “Set as default” menu point. Now you have your password protected private key and you need to make it default, as follows: Click on “Create Keys” button and type the data in the pop-up window, like this:ħ. If you don’t have a private key, you need to create it. The GPG key will be imported into the system.Ħ. Locate them in the open dialog, select and click on ‘Open’ button.

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In case you already have used GPG-based software before, your keys will be imported automatically otherwise, there will be an empty list. Click on tray icon, and import the key as described below: The next step is to import your private key if it exists or generate if you don’t have one.

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The installation has been completed, and a new icon appeared in Windows tray:ĥ. Once you press on “Finish” button, you see the following window:Ĥ.

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How to encrypt data using GPG, OpenSSL and Keybase.3.Creating, self-signing, issuing and revoking certificates.Just skip until What is GPG? (in there are two sub sections about “OpenSSH”, “SSH Agent” and “OpenSSL”, just skip those until you get to the next “GPG” section and continue all the way from there) Introduction UPDATE: for those short on time, read the following Introduction, What are keys and how do they work? and then skip over the sections “Understanding PKI” and “OpenSSL vs OpenSSH” as these just go into more depth on the technical aspect of different encryption concepts. This post isn’t meant to be “this is how you do security”. I’m not even a security intermediate! When I titled this post “security basics” I wasn’t kidding. Now the actual purpose of this post was twofold: Note: although quite a tough read at times, I would highly recommend “Bulletproof SSL and TLS” written by Ivan Ristić If you’re working with applications and/or servers in production then please consult someone better equipped on the subject of security. Solidify my own understanding of the tools I’ll be covering.Helping others to also understand the purposes of said tools.It’s taken me longer than I care to admit to really understand the things I’ll be discussing here (and even then I’ll likely have missed a lot of important nuances), and with that said: what am I planning on covering in this post? Well that would be… It’s important to know what these mean before moving on, so let’s clarify this now: Throughout this post you’ll see me use words like “plaintext” and “cipher”. When a file is said to be plaintext it simply means that it’s unencrypted, whereas a cipher is a noun that refers to a plaintext that has been encrypted.

Imagine you have a plaintext file which contains a password, and you want to share this file with someone else across the internet (let’s say this someone is our friend “Bob”). You could open an email (or chat program), attach the file and send it to Bob. But this isn’t very safe because you could have some devious person ‘sniffing’ your network traffic, picking up your communication and subsequently stealing the plaintext file containing the password you’d rather they not get access to. To prevent this devious person from being able to see the password we would need to encrypt the plaintext document into a cipher and to transfer the cipher instead of the plaintext, meaning if anyone was to interrupt your communication then they would get the cipher and it would be unreadable. In order to encrypt the plaintext into a cipher we need to use a technique that relies on the concept of a “key”. A key is a mathematical algorithm for turning plaintext into seemingly random alphanumeric characters. A key can be used to both encrypt and decrypt plaintext. Note: the longer the key, the more secure the encryption will be.

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