You are here

How to get PGP to work?

8 posts / 0 new
Last post
ggabriel
Offline
Last seen: 18 years 1 month ago
Joined: 2006-10-07 15:10
How to get PGP to work?

I used TB as a hard disk installation to also read emails with PGP encrypted attachements. I like the concept of having TB as portable version, and installed TBP to my USB device. I also imported my PGP keys from my hard disk. I don't get to read email that contains encrypted attachements on other PC's. Is this a TBP issue, or may I have to install additional software? Would this prevent me from using PTB on any PC?

Bahamut
Bahamut's picture
Offline
Last seen: 13 years 2 hours ago
Joined: 2006-04-07 08:44
Um...

Vintage!

ggabriel
Offline
Last seen: 18 years 1 month ago
Joined: 2006-10-07 15:10
Correct

Yes, I used the packed and pre-configured version.

I want to use TBP with my company laptop, while I was using normal TB with my desktop. On my laptop, I am not allowed to install additional software, while on my desktop I have GnuGPG and WinPT installed. Maybe this is the reason?

gg.

Bahamut
Bahamut's picture
Offline
Last seen: 13 years 2 hours ago
Joined: 2006-04-07 08:44
WinPT is not required, and

WinPT is not required, and the distribution comes with GPG.

Where are your keys?

Vintage!

ggabriel
Offline
Last seen: 18 years 1 month ago
Joined: 2006-10-07 15:10
Keys

I have stored the following files on my USB stick in the directory D:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\gpg:
-pubring.bak
-pubring.gpg
-secring.gpg
-trustdb.gpg

Then, I have also imported the keys with "OpenPGP" -> "Key Management" -> "Import Keys from Files".

The visible difference compared to my TB desktop installation is that TBP does not recognize the file type of the encrypted attachement, as I can already see from the file icon.

gg.

ggabriel
Offline
Last seen: 18 years 1 month ago
Joined: 2006-10-07 15:10
Somehow I got it to work

Somehow it works now. I tried to open the attachement and was asked for the application to use. I selected gpg.exe from the folder ../app on the stick. A DOS window appeared and asked me for the password. After entering the password, a a message was displayed, but the DOS window was closed before I was able to read it. I found the unencrypted attachement files in my temp folder on the hard disk.
-Is this how it is supposed to work as this is different compared to my "normal" TB installation?
-Where can I change the destination directory?

gg.

Bahamut
Bahamut's picture
Offline
Last seen: 13 years 2 hours ago
Joined: 2006-04-07 08:44
You should not come in

You should not come in contact with a command window. Open the message, right-click the attachment; it should give you the option to decrypt it.

Vintage!

ggabriel
Offline
Last seen: 18 years 1 month ago
Joined: 2006-10-07 15:10
Perfect advise

The right-click did it. I made a left click before.
Many thanks.

Gunter.

gg.

Topic locked