In order to use PGP properly and without loosing any data like your private key, you need to have the persistence volume setup. Saying “Thanks!” for example doesn’t need encryption and would only cost the vendor valuable time. Tip: When chatting with a vendor on a DNM, you only need to encrypt messages containing sensitive information such as addresses or tracking numbers. Wondering what the difference between PGP and GPG is? It is explained here. To get a general understanding of it’s design please take a few minutes to read this. In this guide we will focus on encrypting, decrypting, signing and verifying text. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of email communications. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. Part 1 – Information about PGP and preparing Tails If you are not using the latest version of Tails, please follow the upgrade process before reading further. If you have a newer Tails version you can still follow this guide as there should not be major changes regarding using PGP on Tails. Furthermore this guide uses the latest version of Tails (v 3.2) to ensure that is as compatible as possible. Any software you install on Tails would get removed any way, since Tails resets all data outside of the persistence directory with every reboot. The main difference between the existing Linux guide and this one is that this guide uses the built-in PGP tool of Tails, so you do not have to install additional software. While there are already guides for using PGP on Windows, OS X and Linux, this guide is specifically for Tails.
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However it is not enough to have them, you also need to know how to use them properly. Experienced readers already know that PGP is just as essential to survive in the DNM scene as a secure Operating System (OS) setup.