There are many reasons to encrypt files — even on a system that is well maintained and comparatively secure. The files may highly sensitive, contain personal information that you don’t want to share ...

This will create the file myfinancial.info.gpg. Note that the original file is not deleted, so once you feel safe encrypting and decrypting files, you probably want to delete your unencrypted versions ...

The command is as follows: $ gpg -a --recipient [email protected] --encrypt myinfo.txt The new output file will be the input file name plus the extension ".asc" . A printable ASCII output file might be ...

GnuPG, the open replacement for PGP, is an excellent tool to manage cryptographic signatures to files or e-mails for validity and integrity, as well as a tool to encrypt and decrypt sensitive ...