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What is PGP?
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a way to encrypt messages to make ANY messaging app end to end encrypted (meaning only you and the guy ur speaking to can see what ur saying, no nasty jews in the way, the way it works is you generate a key pair, a public key and private key, only hand out your PUBLIC key so people can send you encrypted messages, NEVER. AND I MEAN NEVER. SEND YOUR PRIVATE KEY, THIS GIVES PEOPLE THE ABILITY TO DECRYPT MESSAGES THAT ARE ONLY MADE FOR YOU TO DECRYPT, itll ask you for name and email for a pgp key but you dont need to put a real nane or email, once you made you key ill show you what to do, for this guide ill use OpenKeychains but it works the same universally
For this guide ill speak to myself in pgp, here i have my 2 keys
Ill copy one of these key blocks, as you can see here
For this guide ill speak to myself in pgp, here i have my 2 keys
Ill copy one of these key blocks, as you can see here
Now youll send your key block to the person you want to speak to
Now the other guy has to send his own key too, you copy his key, and for openkeychains you click the + at the bottom rightNow click "Import from File"
And once youre here you click thr the dots at the top right and click "Read from clipboard"
Now you see you can import the key, once you import on OpenKeychains go back to the main menu and click on the hamburger icon
Now click on Encrypt/Decrypt
Now click on "Encrypt text" to encrypt a message, select the name of the guy you want to encrypt it to then type your message
After you type your message, click the copy button here
Then send over your encrypted PGP message
Now if you sent over your public keys correctly the other guy can decrypt it, as ill show now.
The guy will go to the Decrypt/Verify option to Read from clipboard
Now if everything goes well you end up with a decrypted message that only you two saw
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