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I want to use a Telegram username instead of an email address in a PGP key.
Is there an agreed upon standard for doing this? Do you know a software or service which acts as a bridge to connect a PGP email address to a Telegram account?
What happens to the .pgp encrypted file after decryption. Does the encrypted file can again be decrypted??? Or is it a one time decryption.
Hello I had used this pgp public key on my win10 OS with pgptool to message someone.
Then when i used that same public key in whonix OS console it came back with some type of warning about malicious item that could go into root?
SO i didnt… Continue reading PGP public key flagged as malicious to root. Was ran before
How do you create a private-key/public-key pair without the public key’s information in the private key? So you should basically not be able to extract the public key from the private key. The private key should contain the bare minimum.
I… Continue reading Create "bare" pgp private key / Make private key without being able to generate the public key from it
Assuming I want to use different mail addresses for different purposes and using either a catch-all configuration (*@example.com) or mail extensions (e.g. me+*@example.com) (where * can be replaced with anything). But for simplicity and be… Continue reading Best practices for GPG user ids and mail extensions / catch-all addresses
My public key had expired so I tried to edit the expiry date with
gpg –edit-key
It seemed to be too much trouble somehow to modify the correct subkey so I deleted the subkey instead with the intention to add a new one and send it to peop… Continue reading deleted a subkey and can now no longer decrypt
When one desires to share their public key openly, besides sharing just the key itself:
How does one verify that the key belongs to who it claims to be owned by?
What is the use case of the key’s fingerprint?
Is there a benefit to create … Continue reading Best practices for verifying authenticity of public key
I know about the trust web in PGP. When you sign a key, everybody that trusts you will trust the person with that key. But what is the point of self-signing a key when anybody else can do that with his own key-pair?
Continue reading Why a public key must be signed with its private pair in PGP
I have few doubts about PGP and RSA. I am really new about all this encryption stuff.
I understand that PGP uses RSA keys, right? And the keys generated by RSA is something like this(public and private):
< RSAKeyValue>
< Modulus&g… Continue reading What is PGP and RSA
I use gnuPG on a linux machine. A while back I received a pgp key that sender didn’t apply a UID to. While performing a test restore of the keychain I found it errored out at this key.
It doesn’t appear that I can delete this key. Is there… Continue reading Is it posible to remove a public pgp key without a UID (gnuPG)