right click
on the icon in the
bottom right corner that looks like a USB drive, and select your separate drive that you
will be using to store your keys on. Again, never store your private keys on your hard
drive, keep them OFF your computer.
To save your private key, you are going to right click on your personal key and click
Properties. I know you probably saw where it says Export, but this is not what you want to
do. Clicking export will ONLY export your public key and will not save your private key.
If you lose your private key, you can never recover it even if you create another personal
key using the exact same password. Each private key is unique to the time it was created
and if lost, is lost forever. So once you have clicked
Properties
, go over to the
tab
Details
and click
Export Complete Key
.
Once you have done this, you have saved your personal key for future use once you restart
Tails. Remembering that Tails is not installed on your hard drive, so every time you restart
Tails you lose all your keys. By saving your keys onto a USB drive or SD card, you can
import your keys for use every time you restart it.
Next you are going to want to learn how to encrypt and decrypt messages using your key.
Well, luckily for me, Tails has already made a tutorial on how to do this, so I will refer you
to their webpage. But before I do that, I need to mention that you need to find somebody
else’s PGP public key, or you can practice by using your own. Needless to say, the way
you import other people’s keys into what’s called your
key ring
is by loading them into a
text file. You do this with the program called
geditText Editor
.
Click Applications -> Accessories -> gedit Text Editor and enter in someone’s public key
and hit save. Next you can return to your key program from the clipboard icon and click
File -> Import and select that file. It will import that person’s public key into your key
ring. To add future public keys to your key ring, I suggest reopening the same file and just
adding the next key below the previous key and each time you open that file it will load all
keys within that file. This way you can keep all the PGP public keys together in one file
and save it on your SD card or USB drive for future use.
Finally, you can use the following 2 pages to learn how to encrypt and decrypt messages
using PGP.
https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/gpgapplet/public-
key_cryptography/index.en.html
https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/gpgapplet/decrypt_verify/index.en.html
Have fun with your new found ability to communicate in PGP!
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