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5th February Comments

Get started with GnuPG

Posted on February 5th, 2008 at 6:20 am

GnuPG is an open replacement for PGP Corporation’s PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption tool, and based on the OpenPGP standard. What GnuPG (or GPG for short) does is allow for the encryption and decryption of files using a public/private keypair. It can be used to encrypt regular files or e-mail, in either binary or ASCII format, and can also verify the integrity of files or e-mail via cryptographic signatures. GPG is a command-line tool and is available with every Linux distribution.

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