PGP is short for "Pretty Good Privacy". It is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to ...
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Shouldn't GPG key fetching use a secure connection?
If I run this for example:
gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0xFBB75451
then does the importing occur in a secure way? I mean does it go over only secured connections? (HKP?) ...
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Generating OpenPGP key pair with restrictions
I intend to generate an OpenPGP RSA key pair where a part (~half) of the private key is as I specify, i.e. a specific string. Are there tools for generating a key pair with such restrictions, or will ...
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How does RSA encryption compare to PGP?
On this answer ck says
RSA and PGP are different.
What you are essentially asking is how
do I run my petrol car on diesel? The
answer is you can't.
I would be interested in a more ...
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GnuPG/OpenPGP Key Practices
I'm looking for input on GnuPG (gpg) best practices. It's been discussed some on the gnupg-users mailing list, but I wanted to get as diverse a view as possible, so I thought to bring the topic to ...
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How should I distribute my public key?
I've just started to use GPG and created a public key. It is kind of pointless if no-one knows about it. How should I distribute it? Should I post it on my profile on Facebook and LinkedIn? How about ...
