Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of netsec2018pgp


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Jun 8, 2018, 8:04:10 AM (6 years ago)
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    2424 - Now to the most important part entering your passphrase! To create a key pair, you must enter your personal passphrase. Choose passphrase which is easy-to-remember but hard to break secret passphrase. You can't recover this passphrase if you lost it. Confirm the passphrase and click '''Create'''
    2525 - Now your OpenPGP key pair is being created. This may take a couple of minutes.
    26  - As soon as the key pair creation has been successful, you will see the following dialog
     26 - As soon as the key pair creation has been successful, you will see the following page.
     27 - Click '''finish'''
     28 - You will see the created key entry on the
    2729The 40-digit “fingerprint” of your newly generated OpenPGP certificate is displayed in the results text field. This fingerprint is unique anywhere in the world, i.e. no other person will have a certificate withthe same fingerprint. Actually, even at 8 digits it would already be quite unlikely that the same sequence would occur twice anywhere in world. For this reason, it is often only the last 8 digits of a fingerprint which are used or shown, and which are described as the key ID. This fingerprint identifies the identity of the certificate as well as the fingerprint of a person.
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     31== Key servers ==
     32
     33 - You can upload your public key to a key server so that public can access it. You can Submit your public key to a keyserver by selecting the key entry and click file > Publish on keyserver
     34 - Or you can submit it manually. For that first export the public key by selecting the key entry and do to '''File > Export'''. Select the location to save and click '''Save'''
     35 - Go to the saved location and open the key file in a notepad. Copy every thing
     36 - Open a browser and go to '''keyserver.ubuntu.com''' and paste the key in '''Submitting a new OpenPGP Key''' text field. Click the '''Submit'''.
     37 - You should get a '''1 key(s) added successfully''' message.
     38 - Go back to the '''keyserver.ubuntu.com''' and search your key by giving the Name(Name you given when creating the key pair) in the '''Search String:''' text box and clicking '''Search'''
     39
     40== Importing keys from keyservers and Signing ==
     41
     42 - Go to the '''keyserver.ubuntu.com''' and search your neighbors key by giving the Name(Name he has given when creating the key pair) in the '''Search String:''' text box and clicking '''Search'''
     43 - Once it appears. Click on the '''fingerprint''' and you will get the public key. '''Copy''' the whole key as shown.
     44 - Open a note pad, '''Paste''' the key and '''Save''' the file.
     45 - Go to Kleopatra interface and go to File>Import. Select the Saved txt file that contain your neighbors Public key
     46 - You will get the following window. Click '''Yes'''
     47 - Then the system will ask you to Sign the the key. Check the User ID's and check the '''I have verified the fingerprint''' check box. Click '''Next'''
     48 - You will ask for your the passphrase. Enter the passphrase and Click '''Certify'''