I find GPG tutorials really confusing and daunting. I managed to encrypt something and backed up my GPG files, but not exactly sure what I need to use it on my bock producer for transfering files back and forth.
Any simplified explanations on the steps, or point me in the right direction would be appreciated. I don’t want to get locked out of my keys/files or do something stupid because I already locked myself out of 60K dogecoin I bought in 2014.
Thanks in advance for the help!
U can upload ur file via scp or sftp (filezilla)
After u can decrypt
gpg -d ur_file_name and it will request the password
How does it decrypt? doesnt it need a pgp private key?
U don’t have the password? I forgot to mentioned… corrected
yes i created password & email when I made the encryption.
Im getting this error when decrypting:
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: decrypt_message failed: Unknown system error
To decrypt the file, u will need the private and public key.
Okay so I just keep those in the folder im decrypting?
https://linux.101hacks.com/unix/gpg-command-examples/
Find where gpg key is located in your cold machine… and upload it to the live server
Or if u are using a cold server than u should upload only the transaction and sign into the network, right?
I would be encrypting what ever file on cold and decrypting it on the hot server and vice versa.
Im on this step:
Syntax: gpg --export {user-name}
$ gpg --export user
gpg: WARNING: nothing exported
Im actually just getting a bunch of characters show up. from the gpg --export user (command)
:~$ gpg --export ramesh > ramesh-pub.gpg
gpg: WARNING: nothing exported
Take a look at this video
Thanks that was very helpful:
I m good to go now:
gpg --list-secret-keys
gpg --list-keys
Generate keys:
gpg --full-generate-key
gpg --gen-key
Export/Import keys:
gpg --export -a user > user_public.key
gpg --import user_public.key
gpg --export-secret-keys user > user-private.key
gpg --import user-private.key
Encrypt & Decrypt
gpg -e -r “user” filename
gpg -always-trust -e -r “user” filename
gpg -d filename.file.gpg
gpg --batch --passphrase password filename.file.gpg
Running into issues none of the commands in that tutorial are working
gpg --decrypt xxxxxx.out.gpg
gpg: encrypted with 3072-bit RSA key, ID xxxxxx, created 2021-02-25
“xxxx”
doesnt out put anything
same with gpg -d
and
gpg --batch --passphrase pass filename.file.gpg
for some reason it works
just doing
gpg filename (not of the commands in the tutorials worked )
I have a gpg file created and I decrypt it with
gpg -d file_name
i tried -d and it didnt work
This is what happens when i do -d
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Yeah, probably I encrypted with few options Indon’t know