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Many of these settings are not necessary to change since they're the default anyway, and by using the defaults, important settings should be automatically applied over time.
GPG
GPG is the standard encryption tool.
Use Cases
gpg can be used to:
- Sign things with your signing subkey
- Read encrypted messages sent to you with your encryption subkey
- Send encrypted messages to other people with their public key
- Verify the authenticity of someone's messages and other data with their public key
You should not use gpg if:
- You should use gpg.
Usage
Export GPG_TTY
in your shell's init script. This is how you would do it in fish:
export GPG_TTY=(tty)