February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
15h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition
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Hands-on lab – creating your GPG keys
The first thing you need to know is how to create your GPG keys. Let's do that now:
- Create your pair of GPG keys:
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 the relevant sections of it and break down what they mean.
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: ...