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Taylor

15 Apr, 2012 04:47 AM

I am wondering how to send an encrypted message to a recipient (obviously using their public key) by copy and pasting the textthat begins:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin)
Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org

hQEMA4Ny3+5YgxvbAQf+JJx8ypXwUCs6Ru etc. etc
Is copy and pasting that chunk of text and emailing/private messaging it to the recipient all that is necessary? If this is indeed the case then how does the recipient decrypt that chunk of text? Or I should say If I received a message like that encrypted with my public key, how would I decrypt it.
Thanks,
Taylor

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Steve on 15 Apr, 2012 07:37 AM

   

   Hey Taylor,
   actually that is what GPGMail should do for you. Could you please run the latest GPGTools Installer from our nightly page: http://nightly.gpgtools.org/ and then see Quickstart Tutorial how all this stuff works?

   Should open questions remain please feel free to ask afterwards. :)

   All the best,
   steve

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2. 2 Posted by Taylor on 16 Apr, 2012 03:24 AM

   

   Unfortunately I do not have leopard and I can't use that. Do you have a link for gpg that will work with mac os x 10.5.8?

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3. 3 Posted by Taylor on 16 Apr, 2012 05:04 AM

   

   Disregard that, I'm getting leopard tomorrow

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Steve on 16 Apr, 2012 08:51 AM

   

   Hey Taylor,
   10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion).

   If you are getting Lion you'd be able to use GPGMail 2.0 :)

   Cheers, steve

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Steve on 22 Jul, 2012 04:27 PM

   

   No further user feedback. Closing.

   @Taylor: Should your problem persist, feel free to re-open this discussion any time.

   All the best,
   steve

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6. Steve closed this discussion on 22 Jul, 2012 04:27 PM.