Enter the “To:” address into the new mail message. Then for step 4, don’t do anything other than compose a normal email and attach the attachment. You need to recipient’s GPG key added to your keychain. Just use the Apple Mail app plugin and follow the simple steps there. You should not be using a stand-alone PGP/GPG application. Please look at my answer-as well as the very clear steps at the official GPG Tools site-and see that this process does not need to jump through hoops.
Whatever your question 3 is-and whatever steps you are attempting-just forget about it.
This screenshot (below) from the official GPG Tools site explains it well. Just get their GPG public key, import it into your GPG keychain and then you can encrypt a message to them. So, you definitely need the recipient’s GPG public key so you can encrypt a message intended for them. The “Mail Public Key” function has nothing to do with encrypting email it simply sends your GPG public key to a recipient. But that said, your description is a slightly muddled idea of how GPG encryption works. Yes, you do need the recipient’s GPG public key to send them an encrypted message. “Mail Public Key” option to send the email?
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You just need their GPG public key so you can place the PDF in an encrypted message you would send to them for decryption. Unless of course you get the recipient’s GPG public key and then you can encrypt a message to them.īut your GPG public key is a non-factor in the flow of content you are talking about. So if you somehow sent the PDF along with your GPG public key in that message both items-the PDF and the key-would be unencrypted by default. Only Alice has access to herĬorresponding Private Key and as a result is the only person with theĬapability of decrypting the encrypted data back into its original To be sure that only Alice may be able to read it, he will encrypt theĭata with Alice's Public Key. As explained on this website:įor example, if Bob wants to send sensitive data to Alice, and wants In your case, you need to get the GPG public key from your recipient before you can send them any encrypted messages. It won’t hurt anything if you sent the GPG public key encrypted, but it doesn’t really factor into what you are attempting to do: The whole idea of sending a GPG public key to someone else is to allow them to encrypt messages they wish to send to you. When you send a GPG public key to someone it doesn’t have to be encrypted. That email to anyone, would that be considered as encrypted? On top of that if I attach any document and send When I click on Mail Public Key, the Apple Mail opens up with an attached public key.After encrypting the message, I copied the encrypted message into mail, entered the recipient's email address, but the OpenPGP icon didn't turn green and I wasn't able to click the lock icon adjacent to Subject text field.Do I always need to select text files or word document to encrypt the message? However, I didn't see anything when I selected the text from the PDF document. When I tried to copy the text from word document, I was able to see Encrypt Services to New Window option after RightClicking(the selected text)->Services : If I want to use receiver’s public key, do I need to ask him to give me his public key and then I would import the key on GPG Keychain and then once it’s imported, I can again right click and click on “Mail Public Key” option to send the email? On top of that if I attach any document and send that email to anyone, would that be considered as encrypted? I am trying to understand the following two cases:
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I am working on Mac OS X and using GPG Ke圜hain software to send an email to someone with my public key.
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