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July 9, 2024
Introduction
GPG keys have a variety of uses including code signing and file encryption. Creating a personal GPG key on the ERISOne Linux Cluster is relatively straightforward
Instructions
Creating a GPG key for the first time
- Open an SSH terminal on ERISOne
- Type "gpg --gen-key" at the command line
- You will be prompted to enter your name and email and an encryption passphrase, but otherwise can accept the default values offered for the encryption options
- Record the key passphrase in a secure password manager application
- Note that it will take several minutes to generate the key and no progress bar is shown
- Verify that a key has been created by listing available keys using "gpg -k"
- Immediately copy the GPG key files to a secure backup location outside ERISOne. Any data encrypted with the key cannot be recovered if the keys are lost