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Title: Encrypting and signing with Trezor
Post by: Hispo on June 19, 2021, 03:40:25 PM
Is there any program to encrypt messages/files and sign/verify messages on Windows with a Trezor one?

Thanks in advance.


Title: Re: Encrypting and signing with Trezor
Post by: Rath_ on June 19, 2021, 03:51:45 PM
Is there any program to encrypt messages/files and sign/verify messages on Windows with a Trezor one?

Trezor does not provide any instructions for Windows. You can follow these instructions for Linux (https://wiki.trezor.io/GPG) if you use Ubuntu through Windows Subsystem for Linux (https://ubuntu.com/wsl). I managed to get trezor-cli to work this way. I don't think there is any easier workaround.


Title: Re: Encrypting and signing with Trezor
Post by: Hispo on June 20, 2021, 11:28:13 AM
Is there any program to encrypt messages/files and sign/verify messages on Windows with a Trezor one?

Trezor does not provide any instructions for Windows. You can follow these instructions for Linux (https://wiki.trezor.io/GPG) if you use Ubuntu through Windows Subsystem for Linux (https://ubuntu.com/wsl). I managed to get trezor-cli to work this way. I don't think there is any easier workaround.

Thanks, for the answer.
I shall see if I can move onto Linux in the future.


Title: Re: Encrypting and signing with Trezor
Post by: dkbit98 on June 20, 2021, 01:29:12 PM
Is there any program to encrypt messages/files and sign/verify messages on Windows with a Trezor one?

You can sign and verify messages with Trezor hardware wallet using their web wallet wallet.trezor.io and same functionality is in the roadmap for Trezor Suite software, planned for September 8th.
Open your wallet and your Bitcoin address, then navigate to Sign & Verfiy tab on top, and you will see fields for entering your message, signature and address.
If verifying message was good you should receive Message verified on your computer screen.

https://i.imgur.com/6CuGqDM.jpg
https://wiki.trezor.io/User_manual:Signing_and_verifying_messages


Title: Re: Encrypting and signing with Trezor
Post by: Rath_ on June 20, 2021, 02:21:22 PM
You can sign and verify messages with Trezor hardware wallet using their web wallet wallet.trezor.io and same functionality is in the roadmap for Trezor Suite software, planned for September 8th.

He was probably referring to PGP signed messages and not Bitcoin signed messages.

I shall see if I can move onto Linux in the future.

You don't have to move at all; that's what WSL is for. After following my instructions, launch Ubuntu through WSL (you should be able to launch it easily by typing in "Ubuntu" in the search bar), create a new key pair using Trezor's instructions, type in explorer.exe . and put the files you want to sign/encrypt or verify/decrypt in the new explorer window, follow Trezor's instruction again and you should be able to copy the output files from the same explorer window.