in this video, we're going to generate a pgp key pair so we can actually allow people to start sending us data anonymously, files, folders, messages, whatever they want.
we need a pgp key pair to actually enable the sending of that.
so what we'll do is we'll launch cleopatra, we will be using the windows based version of cleopatra, which may be a little different from the ui than the tails based version, but it's a little smoother for me to record it on the windows based.
so i will be doing that for this section of the videos.
now here in cleopatra, you can see a few different things.
cleopatra by default will have nothing in here in the keys.
if you're on tails, it will have certificates related to tails, a bunch of different ones for tails itself, for their teams and their support and software, but you won't see any of your own ones.
so these two are already created by me.
so you won't see anything of your own keys in here.
but we want to make a new key.
now making a new key is very straightforward.
we can just go to the file here and we can select new open pgp key pair.
and when that window comes up, it's going to ask us if we want to enter our name, if you want to enter a name or email for the certificate.
so we'll actually make one for dark web academy really quickly.
we will want to protect it with a passphrase.
if you go into advanced settings here, you can change the encryption mode for actually creating the key.
you can change it from rsa to dsa to ecdsa.
we won't mess with that for now.
just keep it the basic settings, which are the most secure.
we'll click ok. it'll ask us in a different window to set up a password, which we will do.
and once we enter the password, it will keep thinking and hopefully generate us a key.
and it did.
and now we have our key in here and we have a key fingerprint as well.
and you can see once it's all complete that it is here in, you see the key id here and it is now imported.
so the new one for dark web academy is created.
now by default, if i wanted to share this with somebody, all i could do is right click it here.
and if i click export, i can send it to somebody.
or if i want to publish this on the wider pgp key shares, i could also do with publish on server.
we will show both of those in future videos.
for now though, at the very least we have a key, but that's it for this video.
in the next video, we'll go over how to import and export keys of other users, and then we'll dive into encrypting and decrypting files and folders using those keys.