How to easily sign a file with GnuPG (Terminal)
This is a quick guide on how to create and verify signatures with GnuPG (in a terminal).
Where to publish your PGP key
Why you shouldn't use SKS, and what to use instead.
How to set up external GPG in Thunderbird 91.x for Mac
After following this guide, you should be able to encrypt, decrypt and sign emails within Thunderbird, even with a smartcard. This guide assumes you already have a GPG keyring or know how to set it up. Install GPG Suite Download and install GPG Suite from [here]. Install MacPorts and gpgme [...]
How to set up PGP WKD (Web Key Directory)
Brief Today I'll show you how to set up PGP WKD (Web Key Discovery), to easily distribute your public key, so that anyone who has your email address will be able to get your public key (in some cases automatically) while being reasonably sure that it's the real key. Requirements [...]
Fix Windows GPG not detecting YubiKey “No such device”
In this guide I will show you a possible fix for Windows not detecting your YubiKey. I was using Windows on my laptop, when I required to set up GPG so that I can SSH to a server, using my YubiKey. I did set up GPG4Win as I usually would, [...]
How to SSH with GPG (and smart card)
Useful to use SSH securely using a smart card / hardware token / yubikey / etc. Prerequisites Of course, you need to have GPG installed on your system, and possibly some drivers and applications to support your smart card / hardware token if used. This guide assumes you already have [...]
Hardened GPG config
This is just a quick post to share a hardened gpg.conf Usually stored in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf personal-cipher-preferences AES256 AES192 AES personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 personal-compress-preferences ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 AES256 AES192 AES ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed cert-digest-algo SHA512 s2k-digest-algo SHA512 s2k-cipher-algo AES256 charset utf-8 fixed-list-mode no-comments no-emit-version [...]