PGP

Public-key encryption done correctly, because plaintext is forever and you do not get to take it back.
  • General information

    Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails and files…

  • Creating a key pair

    When you create a PGP key pair, it gives you two unique keys: a public key, and a private key. You are to not, at any time, or for any…

  • Importing a public key

    To be able to send someone an encrypted message (e.g. your address to a vendor), you need their public key. In order to get a vendor’s public key you have…

  • Encrypting a message

    You must always encrypt sensitive information yourself. Never trust a market to do it for you Click back to the “Notepad” tab You should not see something like this: The…

  • Verifying a message with PGP

    Verifying messages is commonly used to check the authenticity of market links. Markets publish signed messages containing links to their market. If you have the market’s public key you can…