Encrypting and Decrypting Text with PGP

You're watching Infosec Bytes, a crash course in information security for journalists. We're based at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London and supported by the Logan Foundation.

In this tutorial we show you how to use PGP to encrypt and decrypt text, and how to work with PGP signatures.

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Animations by Jose Passarelli

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Infosec Bytes would not have been possible without invaluable criticism and feedback from reviewers:

Marie Gutbub
Information Security Trainer/Journalist

Jens Kubieziel
Security Researcher

Fabio Natali
Software Developer/Information Security Trainer

Christian Vandrei
Privacy Activist

Dr. Richard Tynan
Technologist

Daniel Anti-Freeze
Information Security Trainer

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Licensing and Attribution

[BigAfromtheO]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED, WELL DONE VIDEO!!!!

[purplepower]

Thank you for your videos ! Very informative and helpful, quite easy to understand. Also, how does one accuire a Riseup email?Is it invite only ?

[lukegrimes]

It keeps saying that I have no secret key even though I do? Any suggestions

[Franiveliuselmago]

Super useful, thanks a lot for this series.

[viktorbill]

Thanks man! Exactly what I was looking for!

[danielmor]

You didn’t show how to use someone’s PGP to add as a contact and send a message

[patriciaberris]

How do I get a separate sig key text with the hash?

[rascal]

Is is possible to just use kleopatra on tails ?

[clearyourthirdeye]

6:03 Where do you get the secret key from? When i go through this process i get the message "PGP error: no secret key"

[NightHoundd]

you're voice is almost the same as of Sherlock from Elementary tv show.

[jovanyg]

mann thank u so many people make this shit look complicated as fuk i did it like nothing

[TimeCrisis]

What is the difference between signing and encrypting? It seems that both need your public key to read.

[Tooney]

When I paste in my clipboard it tells me that it has certificates and can’t be decrypted

[freehat]

It's cut off. I can't see what you're doing.

[rascal]

How do I add my public key through this method to a website

[babardon]

It would stop loading to create my keys when I clicked create

[notawildthingy]

I pity the fool who has to either OCR or retype an encrypted message that was sent to them on paper. 😧

[iansharp]

This is great for encryption but it is far from anonymous because he is signing into his own personal email. This renders tor useless. The government will still see it after its unencrypted by the viewer unless they’re using thunderbird on tails

[Seattlefan]

To be a journalist, you basically have to believe in the good of people right? That the information youre giving is reaching eyes that care and didnt realize it in the first place. Im sorry but serious (real) journalists have a death wish or are very naive and idealistic