Generate your gpg key NOW!!!

Hello guys, This is Shadowblade and in this article i'm gonna showcase how i generated my gpg key and encrypted a paragraph with a gpg key.

GPG stands for Gnu Privacy Guard and is a public key cryptography implementation. To create one, you need to have the gnupg program.
To install it just type:

$ sudo dnf install gnupg2

Now generate a key with:

$ gpg --gen-key

Answer the questions and there you have your key.

To view your key type:

 $ gpg --list-secret-keys

Now, in my case i imported a gpg key from a source i won't say (for privacy reasons)
and named it mykey.gpg (i know that it's a name without any inspiration) then ran:

$ gpg --import mykey.gpg

Then created a file named myfile.txt(yet another name without inspiration) and to encrypt it i ran:

$ gpg --output myfile.txt.gpg --encrypt --recipient <email_of_the_source_owner>  myfile.txt

This will create a file named myfile.txt.gpg which contains the encrypted version of myfile.txt, only the owner of the private key can decript it.

useful links:- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-gpg-to-encrypt-and-sign-messages

             - https://www.howtogeek.com/427982/how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-gpg-on-linux/

That's it folks, have a happy new year