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gpg2

GNU Privacy Guard 2. See gpg for GNU Privacy Guard 1. More information: https://docs.releng.linuxfoundation.org/en/latest/gpg.html.

  • List imported keys:

gpg2 --list-keys

  • Encrypt a specified file for a specified recipient, writing the output to a new file with .gpg appended:

gpg2 --encrypt --recipient [email protected] path/to/doc.txt

  • Encrypt a specified file with only a passphrase, writing the output to a new file with .gpg appended:

gpg2 --symmetric path/to/doc.txt

  • Decrypt a specified file, writing the result to stdout:

gpg2 --decrypt path/to/doc.txt.gpg

  • Import a public key:

gpg2 --import path/to/public_key.gpg

  • Export the public key of a specified email address to stdout:

gpg2 --export --armor [email protected]

  • Export the private key with a specified email address to stdout:

gpg2 --export-secret-keys --armor [email protected]

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