Cheatsheets/GPG_Cheatsheet.md

GPG Cheatsheet 🔐

Key Management 🔑

• Generate a new GPG key pair:

gpg --full-generate-key

• List all keys in your GPG keyring:

gpg --list-keys

• List all the secret keys in your GPG keyring:

gpg --list-secret-keys

Message Encryption and Decryption 💌

• Encrypt a message:

gpg -e -u "your-email@example.com" -r "recipient@example.com" message.txt

This creates message.txt.gpg.

• Decrypt a message:

gpg -o decrypted-message.txt -d message.txt.gpg

This creates decrypted-message.txt.

GPG Folder Encryption Cheat Sheet 📂

Encrypting a Folder 🔒

1. Create a tarball from the folder you want to encrypt:

tar -czvf archive.tar.gz /path/to/folder_to_encrypt

2. Encrypt the tarball using GPG:

gpg -e -r your-email@example.com archive.tar.gz

Decrypting a Folder 🔓

1. Decrypt the GPG file to a tarball:

gpg -o archive.tar.gz -d archive.tar.gz.gpg

2. Extract the tarball to the original folder:

tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz

Encrypting a message for yourself: [Different Method] 🤔

1. Generate a Key Pair:

gpg --gen-key

2. Encrypt the Message:

gpg -e -u "Your Name" -r "Your Name" message.txt

3. Decrypt the Message:

gpg -d message.txt.gpg

Encrypting a message for someone else: 🤝

1. Import Their Public Key:

gpg --import theirkey.gpg

2. Encrypt the Message:

gpg -e -u "Your Name" -r "Their Name" message.txt

Exporting & Importing Keys 📤📥

1. Exporting Your Public Key:

gpg --list-keys
gpg --export -a "Your Name" > public.key