Decrypt if you can

[Pigeon]

Here's my public key ID: 0x966D0AA0

You can request it from;

http://pool.sks-keyservers.net

You might want to check that URL...

[MrPenny]

gpg will also do symmetrical encryption. Place the text in a file (ex: msg.asc) and feed it into gpg.

gpg -o outfile.txt msg.asc

enter the passphrase

look in outfile.txt

Ah...this is gpg4win and doesn't offer much in the way of command line usage. Let me see what I can do.....

[MrPenny]

Here's my public key ID: 0x966D0AA0

You can request it from;

http://pool.sks-keyservers.net

You might want to check that URL...

Aw crap....there's a port # associated with it. :11371

[Pam]

Whatever floats your boats.

But I guess I wouldn't be posting here if there weren't people out there that like making computers work

[Egg]

I should make a thread for public keys here.

For those of us who have no fucking clue what you're talking about, could you do an encryption post for dummies?

[MrPenny]

The Oct 7, 1965 incident at Edwards Air Force Base has the properties of a real UFO event.

[Pigeon]

Penny, I get errors during decrypt.

Encrypt another one...

[MrPenny]

Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32)

hQEMA38qGcbGV20aAQf+PsbG5pYgI7doNXuRuNTEaqdX0gyBh5Z56P9VVd9QfK9k
oYVwbRnnS1V2PtuvXOixWS8T0d/GVmN2YhkRqrqulKdhF9spR5+RKl56ppTk3t0b
AN+vorDksYN2DhESrvVYkL228c9MKuY8PfcWeXtoW/zzOWtydIAiJYHjXa9OgX66
KEQa51g9Ed0zIHVa6aBzzgd44v+yerOdhg+4BHZfh1DPolHbQ8QNZrrNymPDVuU0
aLBgCeTvC1EowTSS0DIO0jBGNgYTLoCOXVztcCUPwqocg8bVnUe/HlHVErQpR0g6
wvXueHI1y05r5YofGggS1oVhqH9ArshVQOuvmO3++tJFAcYa5tUzWZB8saWOJPod
9q/5YZ7jHL6plaA1XnNUeXzzouy/MSosKOc7YlzG9LHdsED4VTNg+yXH1OULkzBy
x+ZU+TsU
=q2wp
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

Try the passphrase [ Osage the sweety ] without the brackets

[MrPenny]

I should make a thread for public keys here.

For those of us who have no fucking clue what you're talking about, could you do an encryption post for dummies?

Alright, if I have time this weekend, I'll write up an introduction to setting up a secure, encrypted email system. My favorite uses a Gmail account, the Thunderbird email client, and gpg4win to encrypt.

Gmail forces all of their email traffic over secure, encrypted transmissions (at least that's what they claim), and adding GPG encryption is simply the icing on the cake.

[Pigeon]

I suspect your are encrypting to yourself which means your private key is needed to decode since you are the recipient.

I'll have to post a public key.