How to easily encrypt/decrypt a file in Linux with gpg Your email has been sent Stop your search for an easy way to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux -- the built-in gpg tool will do the trick. No ...

There are many reasons to encrypt files — even on a system that is well maintained and comparatively secure. The files may highly sensitive, contain personal information that you don’t want to share ...

mint@mint $ sudo gpg -o /my/file.encrypted -z 0 -v -c /my/file gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/home/mint/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: gpg-agent is not ...

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from chapter 11, "Keeping Your Data Private", of Peter van der Linden's Guide to Linux, published August 2005 by Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-187284-2. In Part 1 ...

Encryption is one of the pillars of modern-day communications. You have devices that use encryption all the time, even if you are not aware of it. There are so many applications and systems using it ...

You're much better off simply copying the keyring files pubring.gpg and secring.gpg from ~/.gnupg to a safe place. But if for some reason you do need to export your entire key pair, it's the same as ...