## Introduction

### PGP and GPG

Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is an Open Source implementation of the Pretty Good Privacy (OpenPGP) specification. Its main purposes are digital authentication, signature and encryption. It is often used by the FLOSS community to verify:

- Linux package signatures: Debian SecureApt, ArchLinux Master Keys
- Version control releases & maintainer identity

> You MUST understand that presence of data in the keyserver (pools) in no way connotes trust. Anyone can generate a key, with any name or email address, and upload it. All security and trust comes from evaluating security at the “object level”, via PGP Web of trust signatures. This keyserver makes it possible to retrieve keys, looking them up via various indices, but the collection of keys in this public pool is KNOWN to contain malicious and fraudulent keys. It is the common expectation of server operators that users understand this and use software which, like all known common OpenPGP implementations, evaluates trust accordingly. This expectation is so common that it is not normally explicitly stated.

-- Phil Pennock (author of the SKS key server - http://sks.spodhuis.org/)

Trust can be gained by having your key signed by other people (and signing their key back, too :) ), for instance during key signing parties: Keysigning party HOWTO,

## Generate a GPG key

- Generating a GPG key for Git tagging (StackOverflow)
- Generating a GPG key (GitHub)

### gpg - provide identity information

    $ gpg --gen-key

    gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.6; Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
    There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

    Note: Use "gpg2 --full-gen-key" for a full featured key generation dialog.

    GnuPG needs to construct a user ID to identify your key.

    Real name: Marvin the Paranoid Android
    Email address: marvin@h2g2.net
    You selected this USER-ID:
        "Marvin the Paranoid Android <marvin@h2g2.net>"

    Change (N)ame, (E)mail, or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
    We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
    some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
    disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
    generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.

### gpg - entropy interlude

At this point, you will: - be prompted for a secure password to protect your key (the input method will depend on your Desktop Environment and configuration) - be asked to use your machine's input devices (mouse, keyboard, etc.) to generate random entropy; this step may take some time

### gpg - key creation confirmation

    gpg: key A9D53A3E marked as ultimately trusted
    public and secret key created and signed.

    gpg: checking the trustdb
    gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model
    gpg: depth: 0  valid:   2  signed:   0  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 2u
    pub   rsa2048/A9D53A3E 2015-07-31
          Key fingerprint = AF2A 5381 E54B 2FD2 14C4  A9A3 0E35 ACA4 A9D5 3A3E
    uid       [ultimate] Marvin the Paranoid Android <marvin@h2g2.net>
    sub   rsa2048/8C0EACF1 2015-07-31

### gpg - submit your public key to a PGP server (Optional)

    $ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-keys A9D53A3E
    gpg: sending key A9D53A3E to hkp server pgp.mit.edu

## Create and push a GPG-signed tag

See Release Shaarli.

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