Resource GPG Cheat Sheet

melbo · Jul 6, 2014

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GPG Cheat Sheet - Brief explanation of some of the command line functionality from gnu privacy guard (gpg).

Quick'n easy gpg cheatsheet
to create a key:
gpg --gen-key
generally you can select the defaults.

to export a public key into file public.key:
gpg --export -a "User Name" > public.key
This will create a file called public.key with the ascii representation of the public key for User Name. This is a variation on:
gpg --export
which by itself is basically going to print out a bunch of crap to your screen. I recommend against doing this.
gpg --export -a "User Name"
prints out the public key...
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