Thursday, February 17, 2011

11 GPG Commands One Should NEVER Forget

GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 . GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories.

1. Create GPG Keys
$ gpg --gen-key

2. List the available keys in your keyring
$ gpg --list-keys

3. Exporting the public key - by user id
$ gpg --armor --export <uid>

Example :
$ gpg --armor --export prabath@wso2.com

4. Importing a public key of a trusted user to your keyring
$ gpg --import wso2.gpg

5. Encrypting a document - you need to import the public key corresponding to the uid-of-recipient first in to your keyring as per step - 4.
$ gpg --output <output-file>  --encrypt --recipient <uid-of-recipient>  <input-file>

Example :
$ gpg --output test.txt.gpg  --encrypt --recipient prabath@wso2.com  test.txt

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