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Basically, if youīelonged to a group, and wanted to create a single One reason of why maybe you'd want to do this. Use Case *.2 : Mentioned above were the commands for exporting and

You have multiple computers), then this allows you export that key-pairįrom the original computer and import it to your other computers. One key-pair for all of your computers (assuming Importing secret keys, and I want to explain Use Case *.1 : Mentioned above were the commands for exporting and Ok, but I wouldn't send it unencrypted with email, that'd be DANGEROUS. How do you get it from one computer to another? I guess encrypting itĪnd sending it by email would probably be Import/export commands exist, or at least a couple NOTE!: the following use cases indicate why the secret-key

-edit-key allows you do do an assortment of key tasks, see.

-gen-revoke creates a revocation certificate, which when distributed to people and keyservers tells them that your key is no longer valid, see.

Simply encrypt them using yourself as the recipient. Your own files, so nobody can break into your computer and get them? Ok, so what if you're a paranoid bastard and want to encrypt Alternatively you could run something like "gpg -d > mydata.tar"Īnd just push the output into a file. Or using as an example, I'd run "gpg -o mydata.tar -d ". The working alternative (worked on my system, anyway) would be to use "gpg -o outputfile -d encryptedfile.gpg", NOTE: when I originally wrote this cheat sheet, that's how it worked on my system, however it looks now like "gpg -d "ĭumps the file contents to standard output. You'll be prompted to enter your passphrase.Īfterwards there will exist the file "mydata.tar", and the encrypted

Secret keys, it'll choose the correct one, or output an error if theĬorrect one doesn't exist. The preemptive kernel patch, a file of 55,247 bytes, and ended up with NOTE!: mydata.tar is not removed, you end up with two files, so if youĮncrypted file in existance, you probably have to delete mydata.tar You specify the senders username so that the recipient can verify that This should create a file called "" that contains the Gpg -e -u "Charles Lockhart" -r "A Friend" mydata.tar Specify the secret key to be used, and -r to specify There are some useful options here, such as -u to Gpg -e -u "Sender User Name" -r "Receiver User Name" somefile This creates the file fingerprint with your fingerprint To generate a short list of numbers that you can use viaĪn alternative method to verify a public key, use: To list the keys in your secret key ring: To list the keys in your public key ring: This deletes the secret key from your secret key ring. To delete an private key (a key on your private key ring): Private key for this key pair from your private key ring first. With this public key, you will get an error! You must delete your NOTE! If there is a private key on your private key ring associated This removes the public key from your public key ring. To delete a public key (from your public key ring): This adds the private key in the file "private.key" to your private key Gpg -allow-secret-key-import -import private.key NOTE: I've been informed that the manpage indicates that "this is an obsolete option and is not used anywhere." So this may no longer work. This adds the public key in the file "public.key" to your public key There's a note (*)Īt the bottom explaining why you may want to do this. It's pretty much like exporting a public key, but you have to override Representation of the private key for User Name. This will create a file called private.key with the ascii Gpg -export-secret-key -a "User Name" > private.key Prints out the public key for User Name to the command line, which is Which by itself is basically going to print out a bunch of crap to your

This will create a file called public.key with the ascii representation To export a public key into file public.key: the name for my private key is Charles Lockhart, but IĬan reference that by just putting in Lockhart.

I *think* gpg is pretty wide in it's userĪssignments, ie. I've used User Name as being the name associated with the key. Something italicized, think "put my filename there." Please email me if you find any errors ( ).įilenames are italicized (loosely, some aren't, sorry), so if you see It'sĮxplanation of some of the command line functionality from gnu privacy If you found this page, hopefully it's what you were looking for.