nix-config/gpg/README.md

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)