GPG Encryption and Decryption

How to Digitally Sign a File in Linux using GnuPg (Digital Signatures)

by Lakshmanan Ganapathy on April 1, 2013

As many organizations move away from paper documents to digital documents, digital signatures are required to manage any sensitive digital documents. Digital signatures can be used to authenticate the source of the message, such that the receiver can decide whether to trust the sender or not. Now-a-days it is most widely used for software distribution and financial transactions.

In public key cryptography, it is possible to use a private key to sign a file. Anyone who has the corresponding public key can check whether the file was signed by the private key. Anyone who doesn’t have the private key cannot forge such a signature.
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How to Encrypt and Decrypt a File using GnuPG in Linux

by Lakshmanan Ganapathy on February 6, 2013

Using GnuPG gpg command you can generate public and private keys. In this tutorial, we will use the keys generated by gpg command to send and receive encrypted files, and digitally sign a file.
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