Its time for the liberty movement to evolve in an important way

[ryan1518]

Do you value your privacy as much as I do? Then why not communicate using pgp? With pgp, the most sensitive information can be sent and received securely, with there being a 0% chance that even the NSA can decipher your message. Keep your liberty strategizing 100% secret. Ever wanted to share a thought online with someone but got a little nervous about who might be snooping? I know I've been in that situation before.

The solution is free, legal, easy, and fun.

First, a little explanation of how pgp works. You have a public key and a private key. The public key you give out to the sender. The sender encrypts his message with your public key. You receive the message, and decrypt it with your private key. Pretty simple.

Click here to download GPG4win http://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-light-2.0.1.exe

Install the program, then run it. When it first starts up it will prompt you to make your key. The process is guided and quite simple. From there you can download people's keys and use them to encrypt text files, which you can then email to said people.

If you would like, I will be happy to host your public key on my website so that anyone can download it and use it to send private messages to you. Just email it as an attachment to ryan@anarchorebellion.ath.cx

Here is mine: http://anarchorebellion.ath.cx/files...20Angelone.asc

Ready to evolve?

[hellbilly]

I know nothing about this and am wondering what prevents a third party from downloading the key.

[ryan1518]

Your public key (the one that people would be downloading) is only used to encrypt. It cannot decrypt anything. The private key is only on your computer and only you know the passcode to activate it to decrypt a message. There is no possible harm that can come from a stranger knowing your public key.

Here is an example of what an encrypted message looks like. Its encrypted using my public key, therefore only I am able to decrypt it:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

hM4Dg48cIXaN+FsQAv9P2DVE41vktBYZaCHRQyJnFqnndu+yvyprpFCzMgOZY2sT
vjOmFe8s7d2jCAOkRYd/DN2rqUOT+2LxlTSOKyQ5DDj6qVFTgcqeyyTrdb+NhMVJ
7IC0yJWW2sfPBhUyTzMC/0b7Fo3Bl+DTWlXhZ09iqUHyqJmzu94LTAfYkHXJqqUM
DfT1FjO6tyli2t12u4t28GBHz/5nkcESWT4qGn4wktsg+BaRwjk7RyVAewrCcImD
Z2nfwG24rLFvZUZ+V0zz69KBAd+or2UP9HxR+enzpJYxUguwZ9noowXCg1I8+/Tx
CmkwfpYk5cMgYk1Y/kKB9fwUhuKX/jLCFLtmy/9Xuz+Rjr1jH0+VgLzjLvt1o1iH
FdJYkYUSieb5Vqbzqd9Mzr7TpRS133wdBF4DeAu5844YdxWDfcSNhZoUK7gn1MVK
hSA7
=IH3b
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

[ryan1518]

Bump because this is seriously important. Don't be unprepared for when the SHTF people. No sense in being lazy.

[BobRobertson]

GPG is open source, and is available for every computer system.

I started using Phil Zimmerman's Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) when it was first released.

GPG came a few years later, as the US Fed.Gov was making PGP hard to use (and Phil's life very difficult) due to restrictions on key size and export licensing. Really nasty, if you're interested you can read all about it. Just do a search.

PGP, now GPG, use what is called "Public Key Cryptography", again for in-depth just search. Or go to http://www.gnupg.org/ for entirely too much information.

What that means is you give away the "Public" key, which anyone can have and use, but which cannot be used to decrypt anything encrypted with itself.

For decrypting, you must use the matching "Private" key.

You could think of them in terms of one-way doors. You can pass through one door using one key, or the other, but you cannot go through the doors both ways (encrypt then decrypt) without BOTH keys.

It's a matter of very difficult mathematics. While it is theoretically possible to generate the "Private" key from the "Public" key, the numbers are so big that it is beyond present computational power to do so.

Watch the movie "Sneakers". The "chip" that everyone is chasing is a code breaker for Pubic Key systems. It's a super mathematical solver that overcomes the problem of breaking the keys. As in the movie, "The Russians use a completely different kind of code" which is true. They didn't rely upon mathematics. The Soviets used "one time pad" encryption, but the pad has to already exist in total secrecy at the other end for such an encryption system to work.

The ability to openly publish the "Public" key is the great befit, because anyone can use the "Public" key but only I can decrypt them.

But take this one step further. Say that I use by "Private" key on a file, called "signing". Then anyone can use my "Public" key to verify that I am the only person who could have signed it.

Combine the two, and you have a message only you could have sent, and only I can read.

Now you know why the US Fed.Gov was so pissed at Phil Zimmerman.

[ryan1518]

Yes when I say pgp i do really mean GPG. I'm not suggesting anyone buy anything.

[Level 20 Anklebiter]

Plus you can hide the public key of another public/private key pairing to use for digital signatures. In this case you keep the public key to encrypt your message, then you publish the private key for others to decode. Now with your encrypted/signed message applied the public key of another person you want to send the message to. They decrypt that message to find it's encrypted with your public key and uses the assigned private key to decrypt it again, thus verifying you as the only user able to encrypt/sign the message.

All of this adds overhead to message sending, which is why it's best to pair these tactics with a symmetric key that's roughly a one-time pad like AES or 3DES, which you send messages telling the other the time to change the symmetric key (and public/private key pairings).

[Diogenes The Cynic]

When SHTF, I'm gonna drive to JFK, slam some silver coins I have at the ready for this occasion onto the counter at El Al, and take a trip to Israel. Hope the rest of you like living inna woods with your SKS.

[ForumTroll]

When SHTF, I'm gonna drive to JFK, slam some silver coins I have at the ready for this occasion onto the counter at El Al, and take a trip to Israel. Hope the rest of you like living inna woods with your SKS.

I hope the Jews can grow enough food in the desert without any imports to feed the whole country.

Easy to do here. There, not so much.

[ryan1518]

Plus you can hide the public key of another public/private key pairing to use for digital signatures. In this case you keep the public key to encrypt your message, then you publish the private key for others to decode. Now with your encrypted/signed message applied the public key of another person you want to send the message to. They decrypt that message to find it's encrypted with your public key and uses the assigned private key to decrypt it again, thus verifying you as the only user able to encrypt/sign the message.

All of this adds overhead to message sending, which is why it's best to pair these tactics with a symmetric key that's roughly a one-time pad like AES or 3DES, which you send messages telling the other the time to change the symmetric key (and public/private key pairings).

Very interesting idea. Certainly I like the idea of stacking encryption with the symmetric key. Supposing an NSA mathematician has found a mathematical formula to crack PGP (unlikely in my opinion, the extreme complexity of such a task is almost beyond comprehension) the symmetric key would buy a lot of time, if it is even possible to crack in a remotely timely manner. Not super educated on encryption (yet).

[Level 20 Anklebiter]

It's what is often practiced when doing transactions online as public keys are often generated with limited lifetimes (sometimes months at a time, but still limited).

[BobRobertson]

https://secure.cryptohippie.com/pubs/EPS-2010.pdf

*The Electronic Police State *

*2010 National Rankings*

*The USA* *closes - only 2/100ths of a point behind Russia. *

*Americans have the same online freedom as Putin's subjects.*


When we produced our first Electronic Police State report, the top ten
nations were of two types:

1.      Those that had the /will/ to spy on every citizen, but lacked
/ability/.

2.      Those who had the /ability/, but were restrained in /will/.

This is changing: The able have become willing and their traditional
restraints have failed.

The United States, with the UK and France close behind, have now caught
up with Russia and are gaining on China, North Korea and Belarus. The
key developments driving this are the following:

    *

      The USA has negated their Constitution's fourth amendment in the
      name of protection and in the name of "wars" against terror, drugs
      and cyber attacks.

    *

      The UK is aggressively building the world of /1984 /in the name of
      stopping "anti-social" activities. Their populace seems unable or
      unwilling to restrain the government.

    *

      France and the EU have given themselves over to central
      bureaucratic control.

&etc.

[ryan1518]

I hope that a good number of yall are checking out the technology. If anyone has any questions regarding the use of this encryption technology (that the govt absolutely despises btw) or concerns etc. please contact me on skype: powerofreason or by email: ryan(at)anarchorebellion.ath.cx

Get into the habit of encrypting all your personal emails. It takes just a moment extra and there is absolutely no reason to broadcast your messages to snoops. Whether that snoop be some random creep, a nosy email service employee or ISP employee, or a government goon, you don't want your personal business under some random, adventitious, and undoubtedly greasy nose. Encrypt! Encrypt! Encrypt!

[anarchir]

Interesting for sure. I'll give this a look later when I have time (couple of days maybe).

[anarchir]

When SHTF, I'm gonna drive to JFK, slam some silver coins I have at the ready for this occasion onto the counter at El Al, and take a trip to Israel. Hope the rest of you like living inna woods with your SKS.

I hope the Jews can grow enough food in the desert without any imports to feed the whole country.

Easy to do here. There, not so much.

Yeah choosing a desert only reachable by a long plane flight as your SHTF bug-out location seems to be a rather poor decision IMHO.