GnuPG stands for GNU Privacy Guard and is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP? Internet standard as described in RFC:2440 As such, it is aimed to be compatible with PGP from NAI Inc. (from the FAQ)
mostly unfinished implementtions of a subset of the commandline version (wih the advantage of being esier to work out).
| decrypt | gpg -d (file) | |
| search/list keys | gpg –list-keys (search term) | |
| edit a key | gpg –default-key (key-id) –edit-key (key-id) | |
| fingerprints | gpg –fingerprint | |
| list the secret keys | gpg –list-secret-keys | |
| delete a public key | gpg –delete-key (key id) | |
| edit key info | gpg –edit-key (key id) | |
| update local keyring from keyserver | gpg –refresh-keys |