You can then share that public key with whoever requires it.Īnd that's the gist of managing your GPG keys on macOS from the command line. The above key will export the public key into an asc file. To export your public key, issue the command: gpg -armor -export ID > my-pubkey.asc The only keys you should hand out are the public keys. Just make sure to not give out any of your private key files to anyone. You can then copy that file and use it for whatever purpose you need. You should now have a file named my-private-key.asc, located in the current working directory. Copy that string down and then issue the command: gpg -export-secret-keys ID > my-private-key.asc Associated with each listing will be a key ID (a long string of random characters). You should see a list of all of your secret keys. To do that, go back to the terminal window and locate the key you want to export with the command: gpg -list-secret-keys Should that be the case, you can export your private key from the command line. You might find yourself needing a keypair in the. If you open the GPG Suite GUI, you'll see that new GPP key listed. Type the command ls and you should see all of the GPG files ( Figure A). Change into that directory with the command: cd ~/.gnupg Once the keypair has been created, you'll find the files in /Users/USERNAME/.gnupg (Where USERNAME is the name of your macOS user).
The above command will do the same thing as the first, only it will also allow you to configure the following for the keypair: If you want to create a new key with more information, you should issue the command: gpg -full-generate-key When prompted, type and verify a password for the new keypair.When prompted, type the email address you wanted associated with the key.With that out of the way, you're ready to generate your keys. The only thing you'll need to make this work is the GPG Suite installed. I'm going to show you how to generate a new GPG keypair and then export them from the macOS terminal.
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