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Generate a key:
$ gpg --gen-key -
Export a public key:
$ gpg --output ~/mygpg.key --armor --export your_email@address.com -
Generate a revocation cert:
$ gpg --output ~/revocation.crt --gen-revoke your_email@address.com -
Import someone else's public key:
$ gpg --import name_of_pub_key_file -
Search keys from a public server:
$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-keys search_parameters -
Get a fingerprint of a public key in a local keyring:
$ gpg --fingerprint your_email@address.com -
Sign a key which you trust:
$ gpg --sign-key email@example.com -
Encrypt a file for a specified recipient:
$ gpg --encrypt --sign --armor -r person@email.com name_of_file -
Decrypt a file:
$ gpg file_name.asc -
Decrypt myfile_encrypted and store decrypted content in myfile_decrypted file:
$ gpg --output myfile_encrypted --decrypt myfile_decrypted -
Encrypt myfile using a passphrase:
$ gpg --armour --symmetric myfile -
Export keypair from a local keyring:
$ gpg --export <key_hash> > /tmp/public.key $ gpg --export-secret-key <key_hash> > /tmp/private.key -
Get somebody's public key from a public keyserver using keyID:
$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv 0xfe3348877809386c -
Check public key signatures:
$ gpg --check-sigs A490D0F4D311A4153E2BB7CADBB802B258ACD84F -
Verify Tails image:
$ gpg --no-options --keyid-format 0xlong --verify tails-amd64-3.6.2.iso.sig tails-amd64-3.6.2.iso