Using the GNU Privacy Guard

Using the GNU Privacy Guard

This is the The GNU Privacy Guard Manual (version 2.0.9, March 2008).

Copyright © 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The text of the license can be found in the section entitled “Copying”.

This manual documents how to use the GNU Privacy Guard system as well as the administration and the architecture.

• Installation: A short installation guide.
• Invoking GPG-AGENT: How to launch the secret key daemon.
• Invoking GPG: Using the OpenPGP protocol.
• Invoking GPGSM: Using the S/MIME protocol.
• Invoking SCDAEMON: How to handle Smartcards.
• Specify a User ID: How to Specify a User Id.
• Helper Tools: Description of small helper tools
• Howtos: How to do certain things.
• System Notes: Notes pertaining to certain OSes.
• Debugging: How to solve problems
• Copying: GNU General Public License says how you can copy and share GnuPG
• Contributors: People who have contributed to GnuPG.
• Glossary: Short description of terms used.
• Option Index: Index to command line options.
• Index: Index of concepts and symbol names.