How to generate and backup a gpg keypair on Linux

Posted by LinuxCareer on May 11, 2021 7:23 PM EDT
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Gnu Privacy Guard (gpg) is the Gnu project free and open source implementation of the OpenGPG standard. The gpg encryption system is called “asymmetric” and it is based on public key encryption: we encrypt a document with the public key of a recipient which will be the only one able to decrypt it, since it owns the private key associated with it. In this tutorial we will see how to generate and create a backup of a gpg keypair.

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