Have been following this tutorial to the letter
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/02/21/pgp-tutorial-for-windows-kleopatra-gpg4win/
However the Clipboard option decrypt/verify is always greyed out (never available to me).
I have tried copying the entire text string into notepad (windows 10 user), it just won’t ever let me decrypt.
please help. see attachment.
I’m using Windows Vista and I get the same result when I try to verify a detached signature from the clipboard. It works when I try to verify a ‘clearsigned’ signature. I think the reason is because Keopatra is looking for something in the clipboard itself to verify. In other words: it simply won’t work with a detached signature.
Here’s what you’ll need to do: First, make sure you have saved the note containing the signature (preferably in the same location as the file the signature belongs to). Then, click the ‘file’ menu in Kleopatra and select ‘decrypt/verify files’. Navigate to the location of the saved signature and select it. If the signed file has a different name than the signature, you’ll need to select it as well by clicking the file icon next to the ‘signed data’ field, otherwise Kleopatra should automatically detect it. Finally, hit the ‘Decrypt/Verify’ button.
To be clear, the clipboard ‘decrypt/verify’ feature will only work with a clearsigned message (or a gpg/pgp file which contains both the data and the signature). Here’s an example of what a clearsigned message looks like:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512
Hello world!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2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=4mJc
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
You would need to copy the entire message to the clipboard in order to verify it.
Hope that helps!
Regards,
Sean C.