Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Super Easy Encryption w/ GPG

To import somebody's public key:


gpg --import your_friend.pub


To encrypt a text file for them:


gpg -a -se -r 'friend name in address book' FILENAME.txt


To list the keys (your friends') in your address book:


gpg --list-keys


To import a new friend's key:


gpg --import friend_key.pub


To generate a new private key for yourself:

gpg --full-generate-key
or
gpg --default-new-key-algo rsa4096 --gen-key


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