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Title: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: BusyBeaverHP on February 24, 2015, 01:21:41 PM
After practicing some RSA math problems, I think I understand public key cryptography now. I want to practice PGP. Which PGP program is trusted and free?


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: Gisado on February 24, 2015, 01:25:34 PM
After practicing some RSA math problems, I think I understand public key cryptography now. I want to practice PGP. Which PGP program is trusted and free?
GnuPG (http://gnupg.org).


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: BusyBeaverHP on February 25, 2015, 01:29:01 PM
After practicing some RSA math problems, I think I understand public key cryptography now. I want to practice PGP. Which PGP program is trusted and free?
GnuPG (http://gnupg.org).
Just what I'm looking for. Thanks.

... Too bad they only accept CC and Paypal for donation. Time to email them about bitcoin donations.


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: Gisado on February 25, 2015, 01:47:58 PM
After practicing some RSA math problems, I think I understand public key cryptography now. I want to practice PGP. Which PGP program is trusted and free?
GnuPG (http://gnupg.org).
Just what I'm looking for. Thanks.

... Too bad they only accept CC and Paypal for donation. Time to email them about bitcoin donations.
They accept btc donation: read donation page (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html). They indirectly receives the bitcoins... uhm.

EDIT: Well...
Quote
(Donating Bitcoins is possible via the Wau Holland Stiftung; see the donation page (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html) for details.)


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: Madness on February 25, 2015, 01:52:49 PM
Muhammed Zakir showed me this couple of days when I needed the same thing . => http://www.gpg4win.org/ , downloaded it but didn't try it yet tho . good luck mate

~ Madness


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: Gisado on February 25, 2015, 01:57:29 PM
Muhammed Zakir showed me this couple of days when I needed the same thing . => http://www.gpg4win.org/ , downloaded it but didn't try it yet tho . good luck mate

~ Madness
That's the windows implementation of GnuPG, so same program ;D
Well, I once used keybase.io, but I felt unsecure storing private key there.


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: BusyBeaverHP on February 25, 2015, 03:32:32 PM
After practicing some RSA math problems, I think I understand public key cryptography now. I want to practice PGP. Which PGP program is trusted and free?
GnuPG (http://gnupg.org).
Just what I'm looking for. Thanks.

... Too bad they only accept CC and Paypal for donation. Time to email them about bitcoin donations.
They accept btc donation: read donation page (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html). They indirectly receives the bitcoins... uhm.

EDIT: Well...
Quote
(Donating Bitcoins is possible via the Wau Holland Stiftung; see the donation page (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html) for details.)
With a single sentence hiding in the paragraph, it's not obvious enough. The Wau Holland Stiftung site linked is way too many hops and too far removed from the original PnuPG donation.

Someone like me skims past and goes directly to the donation form, if I don't see it there, then it is a missed opportunity for GnuPG.

The most obvious solution is to just post a bitcoin QR code on/near the donation form. I'm going to have to contact them about that.


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: champbronc2 on February 25, 2015, 05:00:15 PM
GPG4WIN is really easy IMO and free.

http://www.gpg4win.org/


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: cellard on February 25, 2015, 05:29:25 PM
The one that comes by default with Tails, forgot the name.


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: CrackedLogic on February 25, 2015, 05:59:26 PM
You can try get some keybase invites. I think MZ has some.

Keybase.io is an online PGP service which allows you to sign messages, verify messages with signatures and encrypt and decrypt messages.


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: MaoChao on February 25, 2015, 06:17:27 PM
http://www.gpg4usb.org (http://www.gpg4usb.org)


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: Gisado on February 26, 2015, 11:12:34 AM
After practicing some RSA math problems, I think I understand public key cryptography now. I want to practice PGP. Which PGP program is trusted and free?
GnuPG (http://gnupg.org).
Just what I'm looking for. Thanks.

... Too bad they only accept CC and Paypal for donation. Time to email them about bitcoin donations.
They accept btc donation: read donation page (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html). They indirectly receives the bitcoins... uhm.

EDIT: Well...
Quote
(Donating Bitcoins is possible via the Wau Holland Stiftung; see the donation page (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html) for details.)
With a single sentence hiding in the paragraph, it's not obvious enough. The Wau Holland Stiftung site linked is way too many hops and too far removed from the original PnuPG donation.

Someone like me skims past and goes directly to the donation form, if I don't see it there, then it is a missed opportunity for GnuPG.

The most obvious solution is to just post a bitcoin QR code on/near the donation form. I'm going to have to contact them about that.
I didn't think about that, good point.

You can try get some keybase invites. I think MZ has some.

Keybase.io is an online PGP service which allows you to sign messages, verify messages with signatures and encrypt and decrypt messages.
I have account there, have 3 invites, but I don't use keybase.io as you have to store private keys. (If someone wants invite, feel free to PM me)

EDIT: I need your email address to send keybase.io invitation,  if you do not wish to provide email address, do not send PM.


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: CrackedLogic on February 26, 2015, 02:41:26 PM
After practicing some RSA math problems, I think I understand public key cryptography now. I want to practice PGP. Which PGP program is trusted and free?
GnuPG (http://gnupg.org).
Just what I'm looking for. Thanks.

... Too bad they only accept CC and Paypal for donation. Time to email them about bitcoin donations.
They accept btc donation: read donation page (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html). They indirectly receives the bitcoins... uhm.

EDIT: Well...
Quote
(Donating Bitcoins is possible via the Wau Holland Stiftung; see the donation page (https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html) for details.)
With a single sentence hiding in the paragraph, it's not obvious enough. The Wau Holland Stiftung site linked is way too many hops and too far removed from the original PnuPG donation.

Someone like me skims past and goes directly to the donation form, if I don't see it there, then it is a missed opportunity for GnuPG.

The most obvious solution is to just post a bitcoin QR code on/near the donation form. I'm going to have to contact them about that.
I didn't think about that, good point.

You can try get some keybase invites. I think MZ has some.

Keybase.io is an online PGP service which allows you to sign messages, verify messages with signatures and encrypt and decrypt messages.
I have account there, have 3 invites, but I don't use keybase.io as you have to store private keys. (If someone wants invite, feel free to PM me)

Well it's convenient since you can access it from anywhere.


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: Muhammed Zakir on February 26, 2015, 06:05:16 PM
Well, I once used keybase.io, but I felt unsecure storing private key there.

It's safe and you should encrypt your PGP key before uploading. Typically a password like G@ra# would be better instead of garage. I think you got the point. See about the decryption of PGP key in Keybase : https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/1401.

You can try get some keybase invites. I think MZ has some.

Yup, I still have 6 invitation. See keybase.io/kzm279 to check whether I have invitations.

Keybase.io is an online PGP service which allows you to sign messages, verify messages with signatures and encrypt and decrypt messages.
I have account there, have 3 invites, but I don't use keybase.io as you have to store private keys. (If someone wants invite, feel free to PM me)

See above link. BTW, there is a mistake. You don't really want to store your encrypted PGP key in Keybase, you can use their local CMD program but you will have to install a PGP software first, GnuPG recommended. Without hosting private key, Keybase will help your clients to verify or encrypt messages but won't help us.

   -MZ


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: Gisado on February 26, 2015, 07:15:43 PM
Well, I once used keybase.io, but I felt unsecure storing private key there.

It's safe and you should encrypt your PGP key before uploading. Typically a password like G@ra# would be better instead of garage. I think you got the point. See about the decryption of PGP key in Keybase : https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/1401.

You can try get some keybase invites. I think MZ has some.

Yup, I still have 6 invitation. See keybase.io/kzm279 to check whether I have invitations.

Keybase.io is an online PGP service which allows you to sign messages, verify messages with signatures and encrypt and decrypt messages.
I have account there, have 3 invites, but I don't use keybase.io as you have to store private keys. (If someone wants invite, feel free to PM me)

See above link. BTW, there is a mistake. You don't really want to store your encrypted PGP key in Keybase, you can use their local CMD program but you will have to install a PGP software first, GnuPG recommended. Without hosting private key, Keybase will help your clients to verify or encrypt messages but won't help us.

   -MZ
Well, hosting pubkey should be enough for 'encrypt' and 'verify' for other users - 'decrypt' and 'sign' is the thing that can only be done with privkey.


Title: Re: Which PGP program is trusted and free?
Post by: ChuckBuck on February 26, 2015, 10:07:20 PM
Believe these should be trusted and free:

http://www.gpg4win.org/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppgp/

http://www.goanywheremft.com/products/openpgp-studio/download

https://www.gnupg.org/download/

Can't go wrong with any of these.