GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is OpenPGP compliant FOSS alternative to PGP encryption software.
Questions tagged [gpg]
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How to verify an imported GPG key
I'm new to this PGP thing. Here are my questions:
Verification
When I do this, I'm given the message "This key is not certified with a trusted signature". Is there anyway to make it trusted and better yet what's the proper way for doing…
user192702
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How to prevent gpg from creating .gnupg directory in user's home directory
I'm trying to run use the gpg tool to encrypt and decrypt files and I would like to know if it's possible to run this tool without it changing a user's global state. Specifically, running gpg for the first time as a given user will cause it to…
Richard Cook
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How can I decrypt multiple files in a directory with gpg?
I have a directory with multiple .gpg files, all encrypted with the same passphrase. How can I decrypt them all without entering the passphrase over and over?
Chris Shain
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Is is still necessary to export the trustdb file?
I'm reading up on these instructions for backing up gpg keys:
https://gist.github.com/chrisroos/1205934
He says that in the gpg instructions it says that it's better to export trustdb and simply backing it up. However these instructions were…
Ole
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GPG key server for internal network
I'm looking for some software that works just like the public key servers but will only serve keys for a local network, hence the server needs to not sync with the public network.
Can anyone suggest any software that can do this and how to configure…
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The generation method of the random number at the time of the key pair making in gpg
in gpg --key-gen
following error occured.
Not enough random bytes available.
Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more
entropy!
(Need 300 more bytes)
What's wrong?
freddiefujiwra
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GPG disabling ssh support for an authentication key coming from a smartcard
When a gpg smartcard (e.g. yubikey) is inserted and contains an authentication key, the key is automatically enrolled by the gpg-agent. That means the key is usable for any ssh operation without needing to add its keygrip inside the file…
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Can I extract the GPG public key if I have an encrypted file, the private key pgp file, and the pass phrase?
I am working on a project where I have been provided with a GPG private key in armor text format, the pass phrase, and a file that was encrypted with the public key. The public key is not available however. I have verified the parts I have by…
