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Re: [Merit] Hey Bitcoiners! Can You Send Encrypted Messages?
by
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on 27/11/2020, 20:35:57 UTC
⭐ Merited by Marvelman (1)
I presume that OgNasty is away for the American Thanksgiving holiday.  But this question is easy to answer:

OgNasty, may I ask what was wrong with my message?
I apologize if I did something wrong.

Code:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

hQEMA6M4xhfeZuZWAQgAuPI76ao4gMVaCnuInTBcazYxNg55DtbMA7sTBjxGlCCQ
L8D3yO2klPQI/pAINt85WeJTV0pIZ2KpiHu5yxOqw0JpAUIkE1mQ0bi74bWMQEX6
OCHLAvkYP733CnFRFxFq5rMhg79pV4wkZWjCzs91JU6P31RGMNrRKgGvpdwLNF/Q
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EHizgqB34mxbqT48FNQvTOA3IzaWullIP/SiC9tlodJlAd31D89fCEd7owGfoqJJ
AgSbTbGzwsafbXS/9+f9x21OJ9/sk32so6TtjnWPO1YGs90aCBhZnHKkDrZWhf2B
2B6t5ahSgp5xyO/sl977p7jczQWtudqGQSWljfZvEvC7Leu+fyc\u003d
\u003dpMuK
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----


You suffered some sort of encoding/escaping error.  The two \u003d strings in the above quote should each be =.

Corrected:

Code:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

hQEMA6M4xhfeZuZWAQgAuPI76ao4gMVaCnuInTBcazYxNg55DtbMA7sTBjxGlCCQ
L8D3yO2klPQI/pAINt85WeJTV0pIZ2KpiHu5yxOqw0JpAUIkE1mQ0bi74bWMQEX6
OCHLAvkYP733CnFRFxFq5rMhg79pV4wkZWjCzs91JU6P31RGMNrRKgGvpdwLNF/Q
KJgYkUlunRBOpMnuj3rcGq0xVZ6i4Ngt+60kegB9Uukc+jy1IckSk2P3PmmIZaUI
JjMWMvS3Qk3yYRMjrdiJsEZABKbj2HZJv+opHU7bNTdWHt5Jl47IxFUElWWQhF24
EHizgqB34mxbqT48FNQvTOA3IzaWullIP/SiC9tlodJlAd31D89fCEd7owGfoqJJ
AgSbTbGzwsafbXS/9+f9x21OJ9/sk32so6TtjnWPO1YGs90aCBhZnHKkDrZWhf2B
2B6t5ahSgp5xyO/sl977p7jczQWtudqGQSWljfZvEvC7Leu+fyc=
=pMuK
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

It indeed appears to be correctly encrypted to OgNasty’s secret key—although this cannot be proved for certain, without his key:

Code:
$ gpg -v -v < marvelman_fixed.asc
gpg: WARNING: no command supplied.  Trying to guess what you mean ...
gpg: armor: BEGIN PGP MESSAGE
# off=0 ctb=85 tag=1 hlen=3 plen=268
:pubkey enc packet: version 3, algo 1, keyid A338C617DE66E656
data: [2048 bits]
gpg: public key is 0xA338C617DE66E656
# off=271 ctb=d2 tag=18 hlen=2 plen=101 new-ctb
:encrypted data packet:
length: 101
mdc_method: 2
gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 0xA338C617DE66E656, created 2014-04-24
      "OgNasty <askognasty@gmail.com>"
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

HTH.


^All that text and you failed to send an encrypted message...

Not only did I send an encrypted message:  I showed the exact command that I used to encrypt it.  I look forward to your response.

Code:
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4WJzdo4YB/8=
=BRkx
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

[...]

The exact command that I used to encrypt the above message to OgNasty:

Code: (/bin/sh)
gpg -a -s -e -r 0xA338C617DE66E656 -r 0x5A00591B2F307E0C < 2020-11-26.ognasty.txt > 2020-11-26.ognasty.asc