pgp

[Doug Stewart]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca> wrote:

> Doug Stewart wrote:
> > I have a file with a public key block , and a message that is incrypted
> > by the same person.
> >
> > How do I use the key to see the message.
> > What software?
> >
> > Ubuntu 9.04
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> do you have the private key as well as the public key block?
>
> If you only have the public key block, you can't decrypt the message.
>
> If you have the private key as well, you need to do the following:
>
> gpg -d filename
>
> but note that your gpgkey must be in the default location in .gnupg/ - I
> couldn't figure out how to specify an alternate location for it.
>
> -Leigh
>


OK OK I got it figured out now.

I send my public key to them, they encrypt there message and send it to me
and I decrypt it with my private key and then can read it.

To use there public key I went to
Applications>Accessories>Pass..etc  ( this is seahorse)
And pasted from the clipboard their public key ( in the edit menu)

I then can encrypt my message on the clipboard and paste it into an email.

Is there a GUI way of doing this. I know that some email clients can be set
up to do this, but I was looking for an independent GUI to do it.


Doug
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