encryption with gpg

December 31, 2014
1. Generate a private key.
gpg –gen-key
2. Generate an ASCII version of your public key.
gpg –armor –output pubkey.txt –export ‘Your Name’
3. Register your key with public keyservers
gpg –send-keys ‘Your Name’
4. Encrypt a file
gpg –encrypt –recipient ‘Your Name’ foo.txt
5. Decrypt file
gpg –output foo.txt –decrypt foo.txt.gpg

posted in Linux by nico

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