- 1 About PGP Desktop 10.2 for Mac OS X PGP Desktop is a security tool that uses cryptography to protect your data against unauthorized access. PGP Desktop protects your data while being sent by email or by instant messaging (IM). It lets you encrypt your entire hard drive or hard drive partition (on Windows.
- When Symantec acquired PGP, they axed about a dozen Mac developers. Any wonder, then, that Mac support lags well behind? OS X is not a priority for Symantec. I have to wonder why Apple doesn’t come out with iGPG and fix this mess once and for all.
- Be sure that you have installed Symantec Encryption Desktop on both the Mac OS X and Windows partitions first, before booting into the Mac OS X partition to encrypt or decrypt. 1 In Symantec Encryption Desktop, select the PGP Disk item and then click New PGP Virtual Disk. 2 In the Enter your desired PGP Disk size field, type the amount of space.
- Using the Mac OS X Finder The PGP Whole Disk Encryption Main Screen The main screen of PGP Whole Disk Encryption is your main interface to the product. The PGP Whole Disk Encryption main screen includes: The search field. Lets you search for keys on the local keyring. Simply enter a name or email address on the local.
Sep 10, 2020 Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) has been deprecated at Indiana University and is no longer available for download. Several alternatives exist for most platforms, for example: Bitlocker (Windows) FileVault 2 (macOS) GnuPG (Linux) For more, see About the retirement of Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) at IU.
Part 0 – Introduction
Here’s my basic guide for PGP on OS X. The OS in question is OS X 10.9 Mavericks, but it should still work for other versions. As for the tool itself, we’ll be using GPG Suite Beta 5. This is my first time using OS X in… years. If you see anything I’m doing wrong, or could be done easier, feel free to correct me in the comments.
If you’ve done your research, you’ll see it’s not recommended to do anything darknet related on OS X, but I’m not going to go over the details here. You’ve obviously made your decision.
Part 1 – Installing the software
Like I said above, we’ll be using GPG Suite Beta 5. If you’re curious and want to see the source code, you can do so here.
- Head on over to https://gpgtools.org, and download ‘GPG Suite Beta 5′
- Open the file you downloaded, you should see this screen. Double click on ‘Install’
- Follow the installation process. If successful, you should see this screen. You can now close the window
Part 2 – Creating your keypair
GPG Suite actually makes this a super simple process. Just like the Linux guide, we’ll be using 4096 bit length for encryption.
- Open up GPG Keychain, you should be greeted by this beautiful window
- Click ‘New’ at the top left of the window
- You should see a small popup. Click the arrow beside ‘Advanced options’, make sure the key length is 4096. For our purposes, we’ll uncheck ‘key expires’. Put your username where it says ‘full name’, fill out what you want for email, and create a secure passphrase. Check the picture for an example on how to fill it out. When complete, click ‘Generate key’
- GPG Keychain will begin generating your key. Move the mouse around, mash keys in a text editor, have something downloading. Do random stuff to create entropy for a secure key.
- annndddddd we’re done!
Part 3 – Setting up the environment
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This is where OS X differs from other platforms. The suite itself doesn’t provide a window to encrypt/decrypt messages, so we need to enable some options.
- Go into system preferences, open up ‘Keyboard’
- You should see this window. Click the ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ tab at the top, then ‘Services’ in the left pane. Scroll down in the right pane to the subsection labeled ‘Text’, and to the OpenPGP options. Here you can create keyboard shortcuts. We’ll uncheck everything OpenPGP that’s under ‘Text’, and delete their shortcuts. Now we’ll enable ‘Decrypt’, ‘Encrypt’, and ‘Import key’. Create keyboard shortcuts for these if you wish. Check the picture to make sure you’re doing everything correctly. You can now close the window.
Part 4 – Obtaining your public key
This part is super simple.
- Open up GPG Keychain, select your key
- At the top of the window, click ‘Export’
- Give it a name, make sure ‘include secret key in exported file’ is unchecked, and click ‘save’
- Open your text editor of choice, browse to where you saved the key, open it
- There it is. Copy and paste this on your market profile to make it easier for people to contact you
Part 5 – Obtaining your private key
Again, super simple.
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- Open up GPG Keychain, select your key
- At the top of the window, click ‘Export’
- Keep the file name it gives you, check ‘Include secret key in exported file’, then click save
Keep this file in a safe place, and don’t forget your passphrase. You’re fucked without it!
Part 6 – Importing a public key
This is really easy.
- Find the key you want to import.
- Copy everything from ‘—–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–‘ to ‘—–END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—–‘
- Paste it into your favourite text editor, highlight everything, right click, go to ‘Services’, then ‘OpenPGP: Import key’
- You’ll see this window pop up confirming the key has been imported, click ‘Ok’
- Open up GPG Keychain just to confirm the key is there
Part 7 – Importing a private key
Again, really easy.
- Open GPG Keychain, click ‘Import’ at the top
- Browse to where your key is, click it, then click ‘Open’. It should have a .asc file extension
- You’ll see this pop up confirming your key has been imported. Click ‘Close’
Part 8 – Encrypting a message
- Open your text editor of choice, write your message
- Highlight the message, right click, ‘Services’, ‘OpenPGP: Encrypt’
- A window should appear. Select who you’re sending it to, sign it with your key if you wish, click ‘Ok’
- Copy everything, and send it to the recipient
Part 9 – Decrypting a message
Pretty much the same process as encrypting
- Open your text editor of choice, paste the message
- Highlight everything, right click, ‘Services’, ‘OpenPGP: Decrypt’
- A window should pop up. Enter your passphrase, then click ‘Ok’
- aannnddddd there’s your message
Part 10 – Conclusion
That wasn’t too hard, was it? Like I said in the intro, you shouldn’t be using OS X for DNM activities due to privacy issues, but I won’t go into it. This took forever to complete because OS X is a bitch to get running properly in a virtual machine. A guide for Windows will be coming next week!
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Campus licenses for Symantec Endpoint Protection expire on June 24, 2020 for Students and July 31, 2020 for Faculty and Staff. You can learn more about the license expiration and recommended antivirus solutions at Campus Symantec License Expiration - Summer 2020.
This document explains how to uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 (SEP) for UW-Madison Faculty, Staff and Students on OS X. This process will work to uninstall old versions of Symantec as well.
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Note: Please remove Symantec from any personally owned devices. Regarding UW-owned devices, if you have IT support, they will likely coordinate the removal of Symantec from your device (do not remove yourself). If you have questions about Symantec on your UW owned device, please contact your local IT support, otherwise feel free to open a case with the DoIT Help Desk.
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Note: After you’ve finished uninstalling Symantec, learn more about the new antivirus options for your device here.
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- Download the Symantec Uninstaller (Mac) here.
- After downloading the zip file, navigate to your downloads folder and double click on RemoveSymantecMacFiles.zip.
- Open the RemoveSymantecMacFiles folder, and double click on RemoveSymanteMacFiles.command.
- If a warning appears about opening applications from the internet, click Open.
- If you run into a 'Cannot run due to unidentified developer' error message when trying to run the file try the troubleshooting steps found here: Open an app by overriding security settings
- Enter in the admin password (if the user is the primary user, enter their password to login to the machine) and press enter. When you type the password into terminal, it will not show any characters, but terminal still is taking the input in.
- Enter in a 1 to the prompt to select 'Remove all Symantec files/folders.'
- In a small amount of time, the uninstall script will finish, and prompt you to enter a 'y' (yes) or 'n' (no) to restart your machine. In order for the uninstall to be complete, you must restart the machine. Once the machine has restarted, you have successfully uninstalled Symantec.