[Merit] Hey Bitcoiners! Can You Send Encrypted Messages?

[OgNasty]

Hey Bitcoiners! Can You Send Encrypted Messages?

I want to give you the opportunity to earn some merit by using your encryption skills. There is a great guide linked below showing you how to send an encrypted message. If you can encrypt a message containing your bitcointalk username using my PGP key, post it here and I will send you merit as time allows (if it works and I have available sMerit). Enjoy!

NOTE: If your post history is full of bounty applications or your account is loaded with negative trust or any other reason I feel like, I will not reward you with merit.


Tutorial: PGP Signature - Encrypt/Decrypt message


My PGP Key:

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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=AW/k
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Example:

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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=OXGR
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

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[NotATether]

I obviously don't need merit but this is how you guys do it:

Code:

PGP: 520A E7DD 0C2F DB5C 4783 8A35 1C3D 1D19 C8E8 B6D8

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

I'm NotATether and I can sign a message.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)
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=bZsI
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Your signature might be different from mine, You're probably not going to have GNU/Linux or SHA1 in your message but it's still a valid signed message.

late edit: oops, I mistakenly sent a signed message, but what the heck, I'll get an encrypted message example ready too. Better learn how to do both of them.

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)
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=LFQm
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

If you decrypt this message, it reads

Code:

I'm NotATether and I can encrypt a message.

Edit 2020-11-16: encrypted with your key in recipients list

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)

hQEMA6M4xhfeZuZWAQf/XC47SgzF4KnKMyY9X+ybDbSP4uuh5KLWaW3NsLPaK660
WkWn9VgDSu+yNyPyXVVSrRhbeMEv/9DhQhOPHaIGn8UtxbQnJZ+rWABJwog81wcS
q1mB9JezOu32QLitrzTkWcGQdZw/K8wqe2WljQK00FAbMoV0XrU7wgpFnusCMf5U
IZAw9so7wjz8vDOa3jytbWAsCwvxJ2KGocgbvXjR4tNLnfAA6Kmit1WtYfBlCVBW
uPKqftDZxJlzamwt8Pf7y+vLdTINEXQWv5JWp0XG3/0pwbmtuHCAIj21F4mlYSJh
V6b0O3mM2VouW3Ne4eQadAsOcPICNEBnPe/eyBf2uNJnASXd2/LDMRperdSQ91dl
7SYSBjaxppX3QE/4QnAb5rFVPINijK8uGGbIY9xSOQiGuW9gqDJ0hu1uxCyPUvgY
dYhnt2Jz3Tzi6E4GrShFRhxKztitAEYZFx/pckbq2hcFF5EtOpbuSQ==
=kZdq
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

[OgNasty]

I obviously don't need merit but this is how you guys do it:

The thread is about sending encrypted messages, not signed messages.  Preferably, I would like the message to remain private as an encrypted message should be (see example in OP).  It also displays a higher level of understanding as they must import my public key and not just sign a message with their own.  For unencrypted signed messages, I would still prefer to use Bitcoin signatures on this forum.

EDIT: Thank you for correcting your oversight, but now it appears it was not encrypted using my public key as I am unable to decrypt it.
EDIT2: You got it fixed!  Merit sent.

[OcTradism]

Hey Ognasty!

I did not try the PGP and ecrypted messages but yes you brought a challenge and I will give it my try. I will come back to edit this post if I successfully do it after learning about it. If I fail to learn and encrypt it, I will delete this post

[NotATether]

EDIT: Thank you for correcting your oversight, but now it appears it was not encrypted using my public key as I am unable to decrypt it.

I used my own public key for the send and receive addresses  , I’ll edit the post later with a message encrypted for your own.

[OgNasty]

This exercise is fun.

I laughed at your message.  I need the user's name to be included in the message to give out merit though, which I'm dying to do.

If you can encrypt a message containing your bitcointalk username using my PGP key

[pooya87]

we bitcoiners can encrypt messages with the tools we already have without installing additional software. it needs AES (which all wallets have) and HMAC-SHA function which all deterministic wallets have and a public key which we can fetch from our wallet or from the person we want to send the encrypted message to.
i used OP's public key found on their profile (04e31f13f55c8bd626a32bf9ad93744e1cb3a4ec4b5efe1cce89e06687aa7bec7476ca4a343bdaf 9b5db1042966c0a8284a2e293ea7901d5284f4bd29cc6d26a40)

Code:

QklFMQIHp6o9MrhtkodROnsmHgk2KljsilF+LZN8SWyCcvpwcBV5C0eGV4wY5hU8n8YT/aSIXRdw6XpLHKbSlF/eSo1d0jNi5b3RBU0eGHItHWyoL5frJ29ffkjvPZYvIUk7KI0=

the process is known as ECIES and Electrum already has an easy to use implementation of it to encrypt and decrypt messages.

i realized that the example above can only be decrypted by OP (it needs private key) so here is an example with its private key revealed (on testnet):

Code:

private key: cR4X2irxZwFrPBY8Jz8SfjGMyAdsnvCSPjWe3GQjubEKK21v44Ye
public key: 037287e275b9b40bf8d528e215ad53f09f14cd0363125bea276e020ec6f851c310
encrypted message: QklFMQNQd6jCL8MF8AIfJQ4Acn5yQ4UEFggIWQWhMP4r2eDbjY3jkfC5Oca6B1VYGb/qvJIWzxDLWyLKzgnAAx2CjEy+V9wvkC/yr8p6QKZ7OB+v+5QDyNKCPpU1dmJMqfQ3iPo=

[BlackHatCoiner]

I haven't done anything with pgp in the past, except from verifying electrum's signature, so I would like to do this exercise.

@OgNasty, here's your message:

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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=gm4q
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

Things I learnt today: what is a fingerprint, pgp stands for pretty good privacy, internet society could have less scam victims if they knew about this. Although, I have some questions to ask.

I knew how to encrypt or sign messages, but only from non-custodian wallets like electrum. How does this differ from that encryption? Why is PGP encryption needed? Also, I don't understand why we need a server that keeps the fingerprints (with our info, like name and email). Couldn't we just use the fingerprint of a person instead of searching the server for his name? Can someone proves me that he owns a fingerprint with digital signature? Because I see that you can only prove you own a public key that way.

That was fun, true.

[NotATether]

I knew how to encrypt or sign messages, but only from non-custodian wallets like electrum. How does this differ from that encryption? Why is PGP encryption needed?

PGP was originally designed so that people could send each other encrypted email without having to agree on passwords to use. Each person keeps a public key and a private key for themselves, and a short fingerprint can be derived from the public key to save space (like bitcoin addresses).

You can encrypt a message with your private key, and specify which fingerprints are allowed to decrypt your message. This data is encoded into the encrypted message which prevents people without the private key of the fingerprints from reading the contents (that is why OgNasty could not read my first message).

Think about it - if you just sent someone an encrypted text with just AES256 or something, how will you securely communicate the password that decrypts the text to the other party without compromising it? PGP solves this by not requiring you to send any secrets.

Also, I don't understand why we need a server that keeps the fingerprints (with our info, like name and email). Couldn't we just use the fingerprint of a person instead of searching the server for his name?

Key servers are convenient for importing someone's fingerprint from the internet instead of having to search for their public key (you need the public key to import a fingerprint). You could also just download the public key file yourself and import that.

Can someone proves me that he owns a fingerprint with digital signature? Because I see that you can only prove you own a public key that way.

Because a fingerprint is just a shorthand for of the public key, proving ownership of the public key also proves ownership of the fingerprint. If someone is able to sign a message from a particular PGP key, it only proves they have access to its private key. It does not prove that other people do not have access to it (sole ownership). You'd have to rely on their word for that.

[akirasendo17]

I use other software to encrypt a message or code for a website or a system so that others can't see the codes or how is it build, but I wanna try that give me time,

[FullNode]

Funny, I hope I did it right

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: BCPG C# v1.6.1.0

hQEMA6M4xhfeZuZWAQgAmmsbrg6h+HE+RzJMvAL1N9S2qaNCtt/zNcRyLoT6vT1H
r87QeEr1M/1Zw3WmqqM24rVjS2KQxA652JobDZiANJuyzk12qQEIEfn+dX1OCkKW
pVTb2OkcbUDkbSSwJH75H/kbXoq07GxIZ4LjIQkelMzkEySNaKElhxc4n42+gQvP
nZPlL8o2rqntZhMYWlRz4z4mNgIXvvcnhHkrWHv9V7IwNSUY+GxRPe95aXkWtLwS
mViDRmfnON29U6GEauvMM0kFrYPuBVRlbrocY4yGRaHYN3+tIwfCnfne9y1hGgPH
x/rczCFGaaswJh+UNUu1kl8a/yf+oMfIleP3VhBBD8lIfFe2hp2qVOkAhXZzZYiD
JNPvIXkcZu11FcLIVcCEa1T3bbIMYazObB6j+eIaX/xOIGnP50cqIWd+D0BBZgWj
omNT9OKnJLbV
=VAUA
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

[Maus0728]

Tutorial: PGP Signature - Encrypt/Decrypt message

Although I have experience in verifying the signature of Electrum wallet I decided to create again new key pair and followed the tutorial made by @mdayonliner but this time I will be publishing it to the key server. However, I encountered some issues along the way when I was about to verify my public key on the key server even though I am sure that I clicked the "Upload Public Key To The Directory Service" and double checked it by right clicking on the PGP userID and selecting "Publish On Server"

I used the link on the tutorial and along with my fingerprint. Is there any alternative?



I've read an article where it says "The Death of SKS PGP Keyservers" due to people who are abusing the important public keys online.

The Death of SKS PGP Keyservers, and How First Look Media is Handling It
The SKS keyserver network is dying. This has been a long time coming. The nail in SKS’s coffin came in late June when someone abused important public keys that people rely on.

[NotATether]

Although I have experience in verifying the signature of Electrum wallet I decided to create again new key pair and followed the tutorial made by @mdayonliner but this time I will be publishing it to the key server. However, I encountered some issues along the way when I was about to verify my public key on the key server even though I am sure that I clicked the "Upload Public Key To The Directory Service" and double checked it by right clicking on the PGP userID and selecting "Publish On Server"

I used the link on the tutorial and along with my fingerprint. Is there any alternative?

When I uploaded my key to a key server, the servers from Ubuntu, MIT and others all failed with the same error, though I could search for other people's keys. I uploaded mine at https://pgp.net.nz/, this key server is ran by a New Zealand domain registrar called InternetNZ. After a few hours my key mirrored to the other servers too and I could search for it there too.

I wonder how much resources it takes to run a PGP key server though. If it's a low resource thing this could be a nice project for me.

I've read an article where it says "The Death of SKS PGP Keyservers" due to people who are abusing the important public keys online.

Alas, the SKS server software being abandoned doesn't make me happy. Without maintainers a project can only run for so long

[abdulodoi]

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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=7ASj
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

This is my first time setting up and working with PGP. I have definitely learnt something cool today, hopefully I've done it right. Thanks

[Raytheon]

Similar to BlackHatCoiner, I've never used PGP in the past, except for verifying Electrum.

This is my message

Code:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
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=h2LT
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

[OgNasty]

Funny, I hope I did it right

I got an error message saying, "Dencryption failed: no integrity protection (MDC)" but was able to force decryption.  I could read it, so that's good enough for me.

[Maus0728]

@OgNasty, here is my message! I think I've done it right.

Code:

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

hQEMA6M4xhfeZuZWAQf9EDQ+il4XHsoCDJE8IK2ho9+Fr3WRKPMkZy99mjbX1zhn
Rpil1OLQKii7IMG3i1xFyu6HZkbc3SQKjKNKOQ/hOwgy1NUQAf2F6gm8L5YU6ckF
bCikJXnfDTFami06Zsl+5F4924D6L7yV22FVbkhZv5uwZKfHzCwCq9QKah9VWy4b
S9oZseOKLQyb5bn+XPjskyBfyjQok/Fp4PNZVF4Sjrmq4tD7DMkWqZryQqmXZWRo
9tIbzoK8UMygpqiJK1MWoOnmbftEEso9iYvrjWcgh8TAykE8l02f/SrIWA4M6G82
ij4eUJIVmReJCbMd/vFC+/uWathFfr4+zl3+V3stnNK2AbNOWt4dkBebjJgNSrTr
PQNu/TnarYCbOAoNJaFy4c+EaUog/XoTvL5pB7saZeu+Im3FDwtDpKGBhKndV9o+
PadaUdgTqZ/zNZySy+vh3cbQYn8sObwPMtIeZMl8A0EBG+RV+s15E+qMWNyF3/Kw
mKg/id2YccBGH0Vbho4aHyzS4mJm6GF/deQbp/QKaiNOnt9E/Py9f78EkLjw/kjU
le+iV5bwI6rqmP4N1qxLT/PaeY1UgfE=
=MXnw
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

[Yogee]

Have you gone past the 502 error gateway Maus0728?

[Maus0728]

@Yogee, nope. I tried finding an alternative but it's kinda confusing for me since there are lots key server scattered on the internet and I don't know whether the key server is legitimate and supported by Kleopatra.

Besides, you can still make use of the encryption/decryption function inside the certificate manager (Kleopatra) without checking your public key on a key server.

[ice18]

Finally I did it I thought the process is very complicated but Im wrong its pretty easy its my first time to encrypt message thanks Og this is really useful I learn something new today btw I hope I did it right lol heres mine:

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