Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

PGP is a security and privacy system, achieved via public key cryptography.

It can be used for the following purposes:

• Encryption: Scrambling data so that no one other than the intended receiver can decode.
• Signing: Providing proof that data that appears to have originated from the sender is in fact from the sender and has not been tampered with.
• Verifying Signatures: Making sure that data is being received not tampered with and from the correct sender.

Commonly used utilities for managing PGP keys is gpg. How To:

• 20210914064746 Create a GPG key pair
• 20210914072507 Sign git commits with GPG

References:

• Video 📺: Pretty Good Introduction to Pretty Good Privacy