Vivek Shukla - GPG I am a Software Engineer from India. I am currently building Daestro. I work in Rust, Javascript and Python. Zola 2025-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://vshukla.com/tags/gpg/atom.xml Basic GPG 2025-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 2025-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 Vivek Shukla https://vshukla.com/snippets/basic-gpg/ Encrypt and decrypt files using GPG <pre class="giallo z-code"><code data-lang="shellscript"><span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"># encryption</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">gpg</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> --batch --yes --passphrase</span><span class="z-string"> &quot;your-password&quot;</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> --symmetric</span><span class="z-string"> filename.ext</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"># OR read password from file</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">cat</span><span class="z-string"> password.txt</span><span class="z-keyword z-operator"> |</span><span class="z-entity z-name"> gpg</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> --batch --yes --passphrase-fd</span><span class="z-constant z-numeric"> 0</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> --symmetric</span><span class="z-string"> filename.ext</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"># decryption</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">gpg</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> --batch --yes --passphrase</span><span class="z-string"> &quot;your-password&quot;</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> -o</span><span class="z-string"> filename.ext</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> --decrypt</span><span class="z-string"> filename.ext.gpg</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-comment"># OR read password from file</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">cat</span><span class="z-string"> password.txt</span><span class="z-keyword z-operator"> |</span><span class="z-entity z-name"> gpg</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> --batch --yes --passphrase-fd</span><span class="z-constant z-numeric"> 0</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> -o</span><span class="z-string"> filename.ext</span><span class="z-constant z-other"> --decrypt</span><span class="z-string"> filename.ext.gpg</span></span></code></pre>