His pwn private key is irellevant in this context, to explain to OP, when you want to send an encrypted message to someone, all that is required is the recipients Public PGP Key. You need to import the vendor's PGP key into your software, once it is visible in your list of keys, you can type out your message and encrypt it to their key. You will then receive the PGP encrypted message and can send it to the Vendor in a PM.

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sorry.. i got caught between trying to explain holistically, and just what is specific to OP's situation. EDIT - was re-reading. I was just referring to the drop down where OP would have to select the specific private key(I use different Priv keys for different marketplaces)

It's not a private key that he would be selecting though, it's important to understand the difference between a public and private key to grasp how PGP works really

It appears as 'secret key' when selecting it from the key list. Or when you are encrypting the text doc it is 'your key' from the drop down. he's not using tails.

the only problem with this is it doesn't give me a PGP encrypted message, all it says is that encryption is finished..

It will be copied to your clipboard, if you paste it will be there

theres no clipboard anywhere, this is so frustrating it's like im so close to understanding and this part is so confusing.. and this part is the most important because this is what I need to be able to make orders and send messaged on the WHM

"Clipboard" refers to copied text saved in memory, just paste into a text box, it will be copied. What OS and software are you using?

i sent you a dm

ok, so you're missing a couple of steps. - Go to a vendor page on WHM, from there you can copy the whole text of the vendors public PGP key and paste in to a text editor. - from here you need to highlight the whole text you've copied and 'import' it to your PGP encryption programs list of public keys(this will allow you to then encrypt messages you send using the vendors public key and your private key. - If you haven't imported the vendors public key, you wont be able to encrypt a message to them. This is done off market. Then you can follow the steps i outlined above. To get the 'symbols etc' to WHM, you just copy from text editor, then paste to a WHM message to the vendor. WHM will tell you if it's done correctly. EDIT - you need to set up the ability to import/decrpyt/encrypt from your text editor. ie link it to GPG suite.

okay the 2 first dot points worked! and he got added to my list and I thank you for that, last question is so when i encrypt the document then i press the persons name, click ok and it says encryption finished, does that mean what i wanted to say to him has been sent? meaning did the text edit document i encrypted get sent to him? and lets say he replies back using my pgp key, where do I check if he sent me a responce to decrypt? Also this was done off market

hey mate, good one! the text edit doc isn't connected to WHM. You have to manually copy and paste it in to a message on WHM. To do this: -Go to the vendor profile and hit the 'contact vendor button' up top of the page. -Then WHM will ask you to decrypt a message to verify it's you using your account(kind of like 2FA). In order to decrypt this message you will need to have imported WHM's public PGP key)(if you haven't done this and can't figure it out, we'll have to get that done first.) -So you will have to copy the message (similar to how you copied the vendors PGP key) and paste in to a text edit doc. from there (if you've imported WHM's public key) you should be able to decrypt the message. this is actually good practice and will hopefully get you in to the flow of decrpyting and encrypting messages. Once this is done, you can type out your original message to the Vendor in textedit doc and encrypt with their public key. Then it's just a matter of copying the encrypted text and pasting it in to the message you send to the vendor. WHM will advise if there is any issue with the encrypted message with an error message The vendor should now be able to decrypt it and read your message. KEEP IN MIND. as for you, it's also quite time consuming for vendors to decrypt and read messages on WHM. Some even use dread and the like with their official accounts to communicate if it's a message that wont blow Opsec. They get multiple messages on WHM in the form of purchase notifications, so if they are a big vendor that can be 1000's a week. WHM doesn't filter those messages in any way, so they can often miss REAL messages from customers(like the one you are attempting to send) Good luck!

exactly, and i understand what you're trying to say but some vendors pgp keys when i search it up to add them to the list, some says key or fingerprint you're trying to search up is not available.. its encrypted as in its into all those symbols and i just wanna know how to send those symbols as a PGP key to the vendor for him to read it if that makes sence

Not sure how things work using GPG Suite, but I use Tails and to import a key you open the Passwords and Keys manager and literally highlight their public key and drag it into the GnuPG window then boom it's imported. I think you're still slightly misunderstanding what the keys are and how it works. When you say "it's encrypted" tell me exactly how have you gotten it like that? Because if you don't have their public key imported you can't have encrypted that message properly. Also, you aren't sending them a PGP key. The key is what their software uses to decipher the message you're sending them. So once you've properly encrypted something you literally send that big block of text to them in a message then they copy it to their clipboard and their software decrypts the message.

I know it looks like that but idk, when i type it on text edit and i encrpyt it, it shows up with all these kinda symbols, i know it has to become like that but i dont know why it's not showing up like that? literally right clicked the pdf - services - Open PGP encrypt file. Doesnt that mean now its encrypted? now when i open it its all these symbols and i want to know how to turn them into this

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let me know when you find out what is it and no there is no option in my end