How do I encrypt a file using PGP public key?

How to encrypt files with Open PGP:

Get your trading partner’s public key to encrypt the file.
Import your trading partner’s public key into a Key Vault.
Use your file transfer tool to create a Project to encrypt the file.
Confirm that the project was set up correctly before executing.

How do I encrypt a file with someone’s public key?

How to encrypt a big file using OpenSSL and someone’s public key

Step 0) Get their public key. The other person needs to send you their public key in .pem format.
Step 1) Generate a 256 bit (32 byte) random key.
Step 2) Encrypt the key.
Step 3) Actually Encrypt our large file.
Step 4) Send/Decrypt the files.

How do I encrypt a file using someone’s public key gpg?

The –encrypt option tells gpg to encrypt the file, and the –sign option tells it to sign the file with your details. The –armor option tells gpg to create an ASCII file. The -r (recipient) option must be followed by the email address of the person you’re sending the file to.

Can you PGP encrypt with a public key?

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a digital data encryption program that uses public and private keys to secure e-mail communications. PGP must be installed on your computer before you can use a public key to encrypt or decrypt data.

How do I Encrypt a file using GPG?

You can use PGP encryption to do this with the command-line tool gpg.

Turn a directory into a file. If you want to encrypt a directory, you will need to convert it to a file first.
Prepare GPG. You will need to create a private key with which you will encrypt your files.
Encrypt.
Decrypt.

How do I import a GPG key?

Here is how:

Identify your private key: Copy. gpg –list-secret-keys [email protected].
Run this command to export your key: Copy. gpg –export-secret-keys YOUR_ID_HERE > private.key.
Copy the key file to the other machine using a secure transport ( scp is your friend).
To import, run. Copy. gpg –import private.key.

How do I encrypt a GPG key?

Step 1: Generate a GPG keypair.
Step 2: Make your GPG public key available to the other party.
Step 3: (For sender) Retrieve the message recipient’s public key.
Step 4: (For sender) Encrypt the message.
Step 5: (For sender) Signing the message.
Step 6: (For receiver) Decrypt the message.

Can you decrypt PGP with a public key?

You cannot decrypt with the public key, you must have the private key. That’s the asymmetric part of asymmetric cryptography.

How encrypt GPG file in Linux?

Encrypting and decrypting files with GPG

Step 1: Installing GPG. GPG can be found in most distribution’s repositories out of the box.
Step 2: Generating a GPG key. Generating a GPG key on your system is a simple one-command procedure.
Step 3: Encrypting a file with GPG.
Step 4: Decrypting the encrypted file with GPG.

How do I share a public GPG key?

To send your public key to a correspondent you must first export it. The command-line option –export is used to do this. It takes an additional argument identifying the public key to export. As with the –gen-revoke option, either the key ID or any part of the user ID may be used to identify the key to export.