howdy. i'm going to teach y'all something that will enhance your privacy online and protect unseen adversaries from intercepting and reading your private messages! it's called PGP encryption :)
1. if you are on windows go here and click the big green button:
https://www.gpg4win.org/download.htmlmac users:
https://gpgtools.org/linux:
https://apps.kde.org/kleopatra/2. click next until the installation is complete. now you should have a new application on your computer called kleopatra (or GPGtools for mac users)
3. open up kleopatra and go up to the toolbar and click file, then clik new OpenPGP key pair. now it will prompt you for a username and email. you don't have to put an email address, this is optional. type in a password (you will be prompted for this password every time you want to decrypt any messages so don't forget it)
4. next click advanced options. make sure the box RSA is checked and change the key length to 4096. the extra key length will make it more resistant to being broken by the chinks. you can also set an expiration date if you want. click okay.
5. after a few seconds your new key pair will be generated. now in order for other people to encrypt messages for you, they will need your public key. right click on the key you just made (certificate) and click export. select a download path of your choosing and the file will be saved. open it in your text editor and it will look something like
-----BEGIN PUBLIC PGP BLOCK--------
SDGOIDSJGSOIDGJ
]DGFSJGOISDAJGPIADSGJDSA
GSJGAPOS'IGJSIPAGAJ
-----END PUBLIC PGP BLOCK----------
but longer. this is what you need to give your friends and also copy and paste it into the account settings here on niggasinspace.
IMPORTING SOMEONE ELSES PUBLIC KEY
your friend bradley gives you their public key. what should you do with it? go to kleopatra, click notepad and paste the public key into the text box. click import notepad. their key will be imported and you will need to certify it with one of your own keys (certificates) check the box and click okay.
now say you want to write a message that only bradley can read. go to the notepad, write your message. click on the recipients tab and uncheck the box that says SIGNING AS, and check the box that says encrypt for me, and the box that says encrypt for others. in the other box type in your friends name bradley and click the sign/encrypt notepad button. you will need to type your password in if you set one.
then in the notepad you will see something like
-------BEGIN PGP MESSAGE--------
GORAGJFOPIGFJASG
FGJHOIAJGFOIGK
AFGJIAOOGJOIRFJG
--------END PGP MESSAGE---------
send this to bradley and he will be able to decrypt it, nobody else :) unless he fucked up and shared his secret key and password with an adversary which i don't feel like getting into because typing is hurting my wrists now. :)
I lost my PGP key.
