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Revision as of 09:38, 30 October 2011
Info
PGP encryption of email and files. Since PGP is not free GnuPG comes to the rescue.
Quote:
GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 . GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. A wealth of frontend applications and libraries are available. Version 2 of GnuPG also provides support for S/MIME.
More information: http://www.gnupg.org/
Installation
Archlinux
pacman -Sv gnupg pinentry
gpg-agent is mostly used as daemon to request and cache the password for the keychain. This is useful if GnuPG is used from an external program like a mail client. It can be activated by adding following line in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf:
use-agent
