Single Private Key (not secret/public key pair)

[Frank Tobin]

J Horacio MG, at 11:11 on Sat, 4 Sep 1999, wrote:

> but I'd rather generate a private key for data encryption in my system,
> with no public key, not for communicating.  Is this possible?  if so,
> how?

One doesn't generate to generate a key for these situations; the key
(possible mutated with a hash) is simply a passphrase, which gpg should
prompt you for when you use the -c flag.  Generating keys is only needed
for public/private keypairs.

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