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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)