Friday, June 1, 2012

Encrypting Files with GnuPG

GnuPG has many options and can be confusing to use.

Here's a quick start guide: http://www.madboa.com/geek/gpg-quickstart/

Steps involved:
  1. Create a key pair on the machine responsible for decrypting
  2. Export the public key
  3. Send the public key to the machine responsible for encrypting
  4. Import the public key on the machine responsible for encrypting
  5. Encrypt the file with the public key
  6. Send the file to the other machine
  7. Decrypt the file with the private key

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