Airdrop Expert Guide
This guide will show you how to request an Atomflow airdrop. The guide assumes you that are familiar with PGP signatures and encryption and have GnuPGP or a compatible software already installed. If either assumption is incorrect choose another version of the Airdrop Guide for your operating system on the Airdrop Page.
After sending your public key:
- You will receive an encrypted and signed note (token) for this key with 0.25 Ely. The note entitles you to this amount of Ely once Atomflow is released.
- Once released, the amount of Ely in the note will be sent to the public key you shared with us and you can spend the amount with your private key.
Please, note that each person is entitled to a single airdrop. So we reserve the right to ask you to verify this when we see fit. We also reserve the right to send an airdrop in response to a request in our sole discretion.
Generate a key-pair
- Create a new Curve 25519 key-pair using GNU Privacy Guard with signing and encryption capabilities (option 9 for key kind and option 1 for elliptic curve kind).
- The User ID Email field must be the same as the email address you use to communicate with us from regarding the airdrop. If you never intend to use email to communicate with us, you can skip your email address but we will not be able to provide support to you by email.
- We suggest choosing 3 years for the validity period and a strong passphrase.
Select a strong passphrase that no one can guess easily. We suggest a passphrase length of 16 characters or more with mixed upper-and lower-case letters, numbers and special characters.
Save the passphrase securely and confidentially. Without the passphrase, you will not be able to use the key. Store the passphrase separately from the exported keys.
# Make directory to store the keys in and CD into it.
cd ~ ; mkdir "Atomflow Airdrop Keys" ; cd "Atomflow Airdrop Keys"
# Generate your key-pair
gpg --expert --full-gen-key
# Verify your new key-pair
gpg --list-secret-keys
Export your public key
Export your public key under the name atomflow-airdrop-public-key.asc.
gpg --export -a <FINGERPRINT> > atomflow-airdrop-public-key.asc
where <FINGERPRINT> is the fingerprint of the key you have created in the previous step.
Export your private key
Export your private key to the current directory.
gpg --export-secret-key -a <FINGERPRINT> > atomflow-airdrop-private-key.asc
Store your private key securely and privately after exporting it.
Import the Atomflow Airdrop Key
Atomflow Airdrop Key details are shown below.
Fingerprint : Unique and complete identifier of the key
80D571126DBA87B56306D40F63ECFDDC3C6D1BD9
URL : Link to download the key
https://atomflow.ai/keys/atomflow-airdrop-key.asc
⟹ Download the Atomflow Airdrop Key and verify its authenticity.
The key can also be downloaded from OpenPGP servers https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/80D571126DBA87B56306D40F63ECFDDC3C6D1BD9. Note that Chrome would download the file normally but some versions of Firefox may fail to load the URL.
curl -O https://atomflow.ai/keys/atomflow-airdrop-key.asc
gpg --show-keys Atomflow-Airdrop-Key.asc
Make sure that output shows 80D571126DBA87B56306D40F63ECFDDC3C6D1BD9 as the fingerprint for the key before importing it into GPG.
Otherwise, you must not use the key and must delete it from your disk as someone may well be interfering with your network connection to lead you to believe that you will be communicating with us when you are, in fact, will be not.
⟹ Import the Atomflow Airdrop Key into the GPG keyring.
gpg --import Atomflow-Airdrop-Key.asc
Encrypt and sign your public key
gpg --local-user <YOUR_KEY_FINGERPRINT> \
--encrypt --sign --armor \
-r 80D571126DBA87B56306D40F63ECFDDC3C6D1BD9 atomflow-airdrop-public-key.asc
where <YOUR_KEY_FINGERPRINT> is the fingerprint of the key you have generated, 80D571126DBA87B56306D40F63ECFDDC3C6D1BD9 fingerprint is the fingerprint of the Atomflow Airdrop Key you have imported earlier, atomflow-airdrop-public-key.asc is the file name of your public key.
The encrypted public key will be named atomflow-airdrop-public-key.asc.asc (ending in double .asc) and will be located in the same directory as the original public key.
Send your encrypted public key to us
Send us the encrypted public key as an attachment in one of the ways listed below. Your message must begin with the title Airdrop Request.
- In an email sent from the email address your specified in your key (click to send email). To use PGP email encryption, download and use the Atomflow Airdrop Email Key.
- In a direct chat on Matrix to @atomflow:matrix.org.
- In a direct chat on SimpleX to Atomflow Airdrop.
[Simplest, Most Secure] Using SimpleX, only you and us will know that the communication has occurred. It is the only channel which allows no one else but you and us to know that you have requested an airdrop. SimpleX servers know about your IP address unless you use a VPN or Tor.
Using Matrix, the content of the communication is not known to Matrix servers but the servers know that the communication has taken place. Matrix servers cannot know that the communication was about requesting an airdrop. Matrix servers know about your IP address unless you use a VPN or Tor.
PGP encrypted email is neither complete nor very simple
Using encrypted email, the content of the communication is not known to the sending, receiving or any intermediate server but the servers know that the communication has taken place. Involved servers cannot know that the communication was about requesting an airdrop. Note that some email applications will not allow sending encrypted email to the receiver unless you trust the receiver’s key (in this case, the Atomflow Airdrop Email Key) before sending the email. If you use encrypted email to get your airdrop, we suggest that you use separate keys for email PGP keys and airdrop keys that you have created earlier.
Using unencrypted email (the default if you have not set up PGP keys for your email) allows the server to know that you have requested an airdrop. The server knows that the communication has occurred and the content of the emails exchanged.
Note that the airdrop procedure described above ensures that the keys and airdrop email attachments are encrypted but not the textual body of the email.
Even with PGP-encrypted email, the subject of the email, addresses of sender and receivers and timestamps are not encrypted.
Your email service provider associates your IP address with your account unless you use an I2P or Tor email service provider or always interact with your conventional email service provider through a VPN.
For PGP-encrypted email, you can use Thunderbird, Evolution, Enigmail, Outlook, Proton Mail or email service providers supported by browser extensions such as FlowCrypt or Mailvelope (Gmail and Outlook are supported). For Proton Mail, you have to manually upload the Atomflow Airdrop Email Key into your Proton Mail’s contacts manager. See https://proton.me/support/how-to-use-pgp under Sending PGP emails).
Receiving your airdrop
You will receive your airdrop as an encrypted note on the same channel you sent your public key to us on. The note will be signed by our private Atomflow Airdrop Key. You can decrypt the note and verify its signature with the keys you have generated and the Atomflow Airdrop Key you have imported. You must store your note securely and keep it, at least, until you receive your coins.
To decrypt and verify the signature, open the terminal and cd to the directory in which you saved the encrypted note.
Issue the following command
cd <path-to-the-directory-in-which-the-encrypted-note-is>
then, issue the following command
gpg <filename-of-the-encrypted-note>
Make sure that the signature is valid and was made by the Atomflow Airdrop Key having the fingerprint 80D571126DBA87B56306D40F63ECFDDC3C6D1BD9.
The decrypted note will be stored in the same folder in which the encrypted note is located.