The Encrypted Chat Thread

[K73SK]

Thought it would be neat to have an encrypted chat thread. If you're interested in joining the secret chat... Download the tool here: http://www.gpg4win.org/

I installed the full 30mb version. To use it, download the program and install it to your computer. Just click next throughout the entire program. Make sure IE and outlook are closed, if they're open.

Open the program (Kleopatra) and click File -> New Certificate
Click "Create a Personal OpenPGP key pair"
Put in your name, email, and a comment. Make sure these make sense since they'll help identify your message. You can just put your user name in the name field so it's easier for us to recognize you.

Click next and then create. A window will pop up asking for you to put a passphrase. Before doing that, move the window to the side and copy a huge set of random text in the text box. For example, find a news article, a thread here, or anything and just paste it into that text box. That allows for the random key generator to make your encryption key stronger. After that, put in your passphrase and then click OK. Type it again and click OK again. It should say it was successful in creating a key and then present you with a fingerprint. We're not going to go crazy here with that, so don't worry about it for now.

Right click the key you just created and click "export certificate". Save the certificate with your username, underscore, key. For example: k73sk_key.asc

Send the file to *me* via a private message and I'll provide it to anyone who has decided to join in on reading the conversation in this thread. This means they can write messages to the key they want to write it to and only that person can read the key. To add someone's key, download the respective key, add it to your list by clicking import certificate and selecting the certificate.

To encrypt a message, open notepad or some other source to type in. Type your message and then highlight the entire message and "copy" it. Right click the Kleopatra icon in your taskbar, go to clipboard, and then click "encrypt...". Click Add Recipient, select everyone who is a part of this thread and who has uploaded a key, and then click next. Click OK and then come into this thread and right click and paste your message. Post it and you're done!! Only people in this forum will be able to read the encrypted message, no one else anywhere outside of the forums!! Oh, and to decrypt a message, copy the entire thing (including the ----- part of the messages), right click the Kleopatra icon, clipboard, decrypt/verify, and then put in your password. Then you can simply paste into notepad or somewhere else to see the hidden message. Your pasted encrypted message will look like the following:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v2
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=Jn0u
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

Current members with encryption keys

K73SK

[JCTC]

Message me for questions if you're interested. This is an encrypted chat thread only.