I have previously written how to create your own discord bot but I never posted through Utopian-io. I am seeing that it's a good place to share how-to tutorials even as simple as how to edit a post. This time, I am going to share How to send encrypted messages. It's also a gateway for you to understand more about cryptography and cryptocurrency in general.

![image.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512907602/zobqxnrryma5n5dizpqo.png)


Whether it's going to be just for fun, for serious use, for whatever use it is, through this end of the tutorial you will learn how to create a public key, sending an encrypted message and if lucky,  you can understand and grasps cryptography better yet, cryptocurrency.

The first thing you have to download is 

Gpg4win,  a free email and file encryption package for data encryption and digital signature. It also has options like reporting bugs, translations and so forth. If you ever running out of idea on project translation, you might want to do a translation for this project. 

Here is the download site [Gpg4win](https://www.gpg4win.org/).

### Follow all required installation and after it's installed open the file.

# STEPS

The first thing to do is to click keys and new key. You will see a popup window as seen below.
 ![step1.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512905539/towoa0sefgt1iue3y1mc.jpg)

Fill the name and your email address
![step2.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512905747/vir1b5uxtjw17s8cbrp7.jpg)

Create a strong paraphase. This is also seen in most cryptocurrency wallet. Always store them offline and don't forget. Else you can not encrypt the message.
![step4.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512905826/i5e3sqcdvab5rwhd7k0y.jpg)
As soon as you click OK and forward you will see something like this
![step5.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512906212/rl7ds0xl6wphszc3woxn.jpg)

Now, to view your public key click on Export. You will have to name your file and then click save.
![step6.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512906397/sfui700p1ozyc2unsbs0.jpg)

Now go to your folder and you will see a file like below. All you have to do is open the file with Notepad, Wordpad or Notepad++
![step7.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512906476/j8sxvkn5w2dp9lze0ho6.jpg)

This is the key that you can share in your Steemit page, Website, discord, anywhere suit you so you can send an encrypted message.
![step8.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512906590/ntokpggmvkahp6yyxwwy.jpg)

Now moving on to the next step

# How To Send an Encrypted E-mail and Message

Go to clipboard and write the message you want to encrypt.
![step9.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512906754/ccsozcmhelqtek83kqfb.jpg)

Click encrypt and this is what you will see. You have to copy and paste the whole message so the other party can decrypt your message. 
![step10.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512906818/vfamfxu7whqdtxfxogic.jpg)

copy and paste the whole message into your email or discord.
![step11.JPG](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1512907099/fgs74hseme9vn1eg5tsl.jpg)

And Now any of your friend who has your public key will now be able to encrypt your message. To read encrypted message all you have to do is go to clipboard, copy- paste and click decrypt. 

I will share more on cryptography. For now try this and have fun :). Always use at your own risk!


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