QUICK
AND DIRTY PGP SETUP FOR W32
This paper is
the work of The Master Jedi Pimpsor AKA thehorse13, who has kindly
consented to it being hosted here on the TAZ.
The original post can be found here:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=266971
Getting a PGP Key setup.
Abstract:
Many people send sensitive information over public e-mail systems. To
this day, I cannot figure out why they do this without using PGP. It’s
free and easy to use. You can sign, encrypt and decrypt data with a few
single mouse clicks.
Your public key will be sent out to the various key servers around the
world and anytime someone wants to send you encrypted information, they
can download your public key, encrypt the data and send it along to
you. At this point, you use your private key to decrypt the
information. I will not go into how to secure your key pair nor will I
go into detail on how the keyservers work. I will say this, don’t go
generating tons of keys because they will not be removed from the
keyservers. This means that all you can you is revoke the key. It will
still be out there and you will have to keep the revoked private key
around should you want to decrypt something sent to you encrypted with
the revoked public key. It also makes it hard for people to determine
which public key to use in order to send you something. This will cause
you to have to export your public key and e-mail it to them first.
Purpose:
To step you through the setup of a PGP solution for Win32. In addition,
one example will used to show you how to encrypt a simple text file.
Please note that there are many ways to setup a PGP solution. This is
just one.
Software needed:
WinPT: www.winpt.org
File: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~tw...-0.9.90-exe.zip
GNUPG: www.gnupg.org
File: http://mirrors.rootmode.com/ftp.gnu...2cli-1.4.0a.zip
Installation:
1) Extract both of these zip files to separate directories. In our
example, we will use c:\winpt-extract and Gnupg-extract.
2) Create a directory where you want all of your components to reside.
In our example, we’ll use C:\WinPT. After creating this directory,
create a subdirectory called “locale”.
3) Copy the contents of the winpt-extract directory into C:\WinPT
4) Go into the Gnupg-extract folder and edit the gnupg-w32.reg file.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GNU]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GNU\GNUPG]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GNU\GNUPG]
"HomeDir"="C:\\GnuPG"
"gpgProgram"="C:\\GnuPG\\gpg.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mingw32]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mingw32\NLS]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mingw32\NLS]
"MODir"="C:\\GnuPG\\Locale"
Go through this file and change all dirs to reflect C:\WinPT. The file
should look like this when you are finished:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GNU]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GNU\GNUPG]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GNU\GNUPG]
"HomeDir"="C:\\WinPT"
"gpgProgram"="C:\\ WinPT \\gpg.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mingw32]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mingw32\NLS]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mingw32\NLS]
"MODir"="C:\\ WinPT \\Locale"
5) Save the file and right click it and select “MERGE”
6) Cut and paste all .mo files from GnuPg-extract to C:\WinPT\locale
7) Cut and paste all remaining files from GnuPG-extract to C:\WinPT
Cool Run WinPT.exe (You can create a shortcut of your liking to point
to this exe). If all went according to plan, you should see what looks
like a key in your system tray.
9) Right click on the key and select key manager
10) From the pulldown menus, select Key>new>expert. Fill in all
the fields it asks for. Do not change any default settings here. Once
you generate your keypair, you need to publish them by right clicking
on your keypair and select “send to keyserver”. You can use the default
or choose from the list of keyservers presented to you.
That’s it! In about 24 hours your public key will be posted on key
servers all over the world and people will be able to send you
encrypted information using your published private key!
How it works, a simple test.
Original Tutorial
Submitted by nokia for TheTAZZone-TAZForum
Originally posted on March 4th, 2006 here
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