Linux.com: CLI for Noobies: The Keys to GnuPG

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 29, 2004

“The GNU Privacy Guard (a.k.a. GnuPG, or simply gpg) is a free
software implementation of Philip Zimmermann’s notorious, powerful,
and popular program PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). GnuPG is cooler than
a secret decoder ring, so get out of that GUI recliner for a few
minutes and come learn a couple of secret spy crypto command line
tricks.

“GnuPG has two main uses. The first is to encrypt data to ensure
its privacy. The second is to “sign” data so that others can
determine it is authentic and unmodified…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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