Having one set of keys for a large group?

[JanuszA.Urbanowicz]

Tom Chitty wrote/napisa=B3[a]/schrieb:
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> First, I'm relatively new to GNUpg, and I have what may be a very obvious
> question.
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> If there is a group of say 12 people, at different locations around the
> country. They will all be generating documents on a new product, and want=
 to
> share the data with the other 11 each time a new document (or update to an
> old one) is created. Instead of having to encrypt the document 11 differe=
nt
> times, and mail it 11 times, isn't there an easy way to use one key pair =
so
> that all 12 people have the public and private key? That should allow user
> 'A' to encrypt the file once, mail that file to the other 11 people, and =
the
> 11 recipients use the same private key/passphrase combination to decrypt =
it.
> Thanks in advance for your reply.

Each one should generate own key. Then you should encrypt it once for
individual users' keys: all users will be able to decrypt it:

gpg -ea -r user1 -r user2 ... file

Alex
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