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Here's a little cheat sheet to get you up and running.
Once you get Mircryption installed, you can access all features through the hotkey (defaults to shift-F12) or by right-clicking in a channel window and selecting the mircryption menu.
| 1. | Install the package by following installation instructions in the previous chapter. |
| 2. | You'll always know its installed, because it says so in status window when mIRC starts. |
| 3. | Go into your normal channels, make sure everything works as before. |
| 4. | It does? Good. If not, skip to Troubleshooting section. |
| 5. | Set the master keyfile passphrase by typing: /keypassphrase or select it from the right-click or hotkey (shift-F12) menu. |
| 6. | The master keyfile passphrase protects the file that stores all your different channel keys. You will be asked for it each time you restart mirc (to skip entering it each time, see section on managing the keyfile), so choose a phrase that you will remember and that is not too hard to type, but not that anyone else could guess. |
| 7. | If you dont set the master passphrase now, you will be asked to do so the first time you do anything that requires encryption. |
| 8. | After you've set a master keyfile passphrase, and memorized it, make a new channel. |
| 10. | Set an encryption key for the channel. You can do this by typing /setkey or via the right-click menu, or the hotkey menu (shift-F12). Set the key to: test |
| 11. | After an encryption key is set, you should find that your nickname appears surrounded by [] in the channel window, as will all other people who are speaking in encrypted text. |
| 12. | If your channel window now displays each line twice, see the section on conflicts with other scripts. |
| 13. | Once you have set a key, your outgoing text will be encrypted, and any incoming encrypted text will be decrypted using the key you specified. If people on the channel have a different key than you, and speak in encrypted text, you will see all garbled text. |
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