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# GPG Cheatsheet 🔐
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## Key Management 🔑
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- **Generate a new GPG key pair:**
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```bash
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gpg --full-generate-key
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```
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- **List all keys in your GPG keyring:**
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```bash
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gpg --list-keys
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```
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- **List all the secret keys in your GPG keyring:**
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```bash
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gpg --list-secret-keys
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```
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## Message Encryption and Decryption 💌
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- **Encrypt a message:**
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```bash
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gpg -e -u "your-email@example.com" -r "recipient@example.com" message.txt
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```
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This creates `message.txt.gpg`.
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- **Decrypt a message:**
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```bash
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gpg -o decrypted-message.txt -d message.txt.gpg
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```
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This creates `decrypted-message.txt`.
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## GPG Folder Encryption Cheat Sheet 📂
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### Encrypting a Folder 🔒
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1. **Create a tarball from the folder you want to encrypt:**
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```bash
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tar -czvf archive.tar.gz /path/to/folder_to_encrypt
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```
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2. **Encrypt the tarball using GPG:**
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```bash
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gpg -e -r your-email@example.com archive.tar.gz
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```
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### Decrypting a Folder 🔓
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1. **Decrypt the GPG file to a tarball:**
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```bash
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gpg -o archive.tar.gz -d archive.tar.gz.gpg
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```
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2. **Extract the tarball to the original folder:**
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```bash
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tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz
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```
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## Encrypting a message for yourself: [Different Method] 🤔
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1. **Generate a Key Pair**:
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```bash
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gpg --gen-key
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```
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2. **Encrypt the Message**:
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```bash
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gpg -e -u "Your Name" -r "Your Name" message.txt
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```
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3. **Decrypt the Message**:
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```bash
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gpg -d message.txt.gpg
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```
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## Encrypting a message for someone else: 🤝
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1. **Import Their Public Key**:
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```bash
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gpg --import theirkey.gpg
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```
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2. **Encrypt the Message**:
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```bash
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gpg -e -u "Your Name" -r "Their Name" message.txt
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```
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## Exporting & Importing Keys 📤📥
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1. **Exporting Your Public Key:**
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```bash
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gpg --list-keys
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gpg --export -a "Your Name" > public.key
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```
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