GPG index Now I have a private/public key pair, but what to do with it? Ofcourse we want to use it for encrypting and signing files, we will get tot that in a minute (next article). Because, as written in the first article, Bob needs Alice’s public key to encrypt a message to her, and […]

GPG index GPG operates with a pair of keys : a public key and a private (or secret) key. The public key can/will/must be distributed to your corespondents (or whatever you will call them). The private/secret key is kept to you and only you. If you would like to make a comparison with the “real” […]

GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) is the gnu implemantaion of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). PGP was written decades ago by Phil Zimmermann, but it still does it job perfectly well. I will try to write down some notes about following subjects with respect to GPG Creating a public/private keypair Import and sign a public key Encrypt/Decrypt […]