thanks for the reply as it got me a little further. I am trying to encrypt the message with 2 public keys for admin of a market. For soem reason I can only import 1 of the keys but this should still be ok according to the market im in. Anyway I done what you said and opened it with text editor and the message was all jumbled up with red text so something i have done is wrong. Ill delete what Ive done and try again. cheers. On another point - I have persistant volume on but it doesnt seem to keep security to the highest level and when I log in I forget to do it and then I get a message that java script is running. Is there a setting to keep it on the highest security?

>im not sure what youre doing yeah this post makes no sense im so confused what is happening

import one key at a time (copy and paste to text editor) and save it wherever you save your keys. Double click all the keys in their saved area and they will be added to your key ring. So when you highlight the msg in the clipboard and go to sign/encrypt there should be options for all the keys that you've saved and double clicked

ive highlighted the letter in documents, then clicked sign/encrypt, ive chosen their key to encrypt with and `dont sign` on the bottom right, it then says ` the key is not fully trusted do you trust this key` , to that I select yes and then nothing happens and im just back to the page with the letter and its not encrypted?

open a new page in text editor and press paste and tell me what you see

sorted it mate!.... when I said nothing happenned it actually copied the encrypted message to my clipboard to which Ive pasted and its ok. Many thanks for your help. On anothe rnote is there any way of getting PGP4usb working on tails? I need access to it as it was my old method of encryption but I cant open it?

Yes that is correct, and always pgp with your own as well so you can decrypt the msg too. I'm not familiar with PGP4usb but VeraCrypt is built into talis and it's a USB decryption tool.

Give the terminal a try. Open it up and use the following command: cat < where the key name above is changed depending on who you're encrypting the message for. You'll be able to type in whatever message you'd like, and then finish it off by typing in "END" in its own line. Once you do that, it'll automatically take what you input before that and encrypt it to the specified recipient. The resulting message will be printed to the terminal and you can simply copy it wherever you need. As for your second issue, follow the guide over at /post/f9438b8e69e162f4e2f6/ to automatically set TBB to the safest level with persistence.

Is there a setting to keep it on the highest security? No its normal that Tails forget this setting after a reboot.

It is normal, but if you want to have it keep those settings, the guide at /post/f9438b8e69e162f4e2f6/ will get you set up. Just an FYI.

Haha, it had me pretty confused, but people of all backgrounds use Tails. Gotta get them all get set up for our collective security! Hail PGP.