January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening
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Creating your GPG keys
Getting started with GPG requires you to first generate your GPG keys. You'll do that with:
gpg --gen-key
Note that, since you're setting this up for yourself, you don't need sudo privileges.
The output of this command is too long to show all at once, so I'll show relevant sections of it, and break down what it means.
The first thing that this command does is to create a populated .gnupg directory in your home directory:
gpg: directory `/home/donnie/.gnupg' createdgpg: new configuration file `/home/donnie/.gnupg/gpg.conf' createdgpg: WARNING: options in `/home/donnie/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during this rungpg: keyring `/home/donnie/.gnupg/secring.gpg' createdgpg: keyring `/home/donnie/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' ...