Quick cheatsheet on how to encrypt or verify a message to/from me.

• Import the public key

  curl hhttps://alee08.github.io/assets/public_pgp.txt | gpg --import
  # or
  # curl https://keybase.io/alessandrotrapasso/pgp_keys.asc | gpg --import
  

• Encrypt a message:

  echo "A saucerful of secrets" > message.txt
  gpg --output message.txt.gpg --encrypt --recipient ale.trapasso8@gmail.com message.txt
  

• Sign message:

  shasum -a 256 | awk '{print $1}' > message.txt.sha256sum
  gpg --output message.txt.sha256sum.sig --sign message.txt.sha256sum
  

• Decrypt message

  gpg --output message.txt --decrypt message.txt.gpg
  

• Verify signature

  gpg --verify message.txt.sha256sum.sig
  # or 
  # gpg --output message.txt.sha256sum  --decrypt message.txt.sha256sum.sig
  

Other useful commands.

• To know your keys:

  gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG
  

• To export the public key:

  gpg --armor --export <key-id> # e.g. D7E224F...