The Manual

Before you get started with the bracelet, you'll need a basic understanding of how PGP works. You can start at our our PGP page but make sure you read this if you speak English or dit als je liever Nederlands leest. It will take approximately 30 to 60 minutes of your time.

Congrats with your secret Key2Myheart identity!

Thanks for taking part in The Key to my Heart! and welcome to the world of encrypted email, we hope that this is your first step towards learning how to keep your data to yourself.

We must warn you though of a few things:

• This key has been generated securely to the best of our capability.
• The computer used to generate this key, shredded the key immediately after generating it. We do not keep copies of your private key.
• A few seconds of your heartbeat sound have been recorded, but the amount of data is not enough to identify you.
• For usability reasons the key isn't password protected, but you can add a password any time you like.
• To use your key in a more secure way we recommend that you, first of all, protect the key with a password.
• You should consider this key as low security.
• If you are a journalist or activist and need to protect your sources, you may use this key to learn more about encrypted email, but we strongly suggest to not use this key for sensitive communications. Practice, learn more about encrypting your email and when you feel confident generate a new key for yourself.
• If you want to encrypt your email so that the Google's and the Facebook's of this world cannot target advertisements at you however, this key is more than enough.

So you got your new digital identity from our installation but now what? How do you use this thing?

If you are on a Mac computer

• Plug the USB bracelet into your computer
• Open the contents of the USB and confirm there is a folder in there named your keys
• Open the program GPG keychain
• Click on the File menu and choose Import...
• Find the folder that says Your keys
• Click on the file yoursecretkey.asc and click Open

The key has now been imported to your keychain. And if you use the same mail adres in Apple Mail as the one you told us, you should now be able to send signed mails and decrypt encrypted mails send to you that were encrypted with your public key.

If you are on a Windows computer

• Plug the USB bracelet into your computer
• Open the contents of the USB and confirm there is a folder in there named your keys

We are assuming you are using Thunderbird and Enigmail as explained in this tutorial, which you have already read and followed.

• In Thunderbird click the configuration button, then the Enigmail option, then Key Management.
• Click on the File menu and choose Import...
• Find the folder that says Your keys
• Click on the file yoursecretkey.asc and click Open

The key has now been imported to your keychain. And if you use the same mail adres in Thunderbird as the one you told us, you should now be able to send signed mails and decrypt encrypted mails send to you that were encrypted with your public key.