default user and recipient

[Laurent Jumet]

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Hello Herb !

Herb Burnswell <herbert.burnswell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am new to pgp and would like to understand the minimum flags that I
> should be using for my encryption/decryption needs.  I just want to encrypt
> files for decryption by one other person.  We have exchanged public keys.
> I have read in several places that I can run:
> gpg -e filename
> In ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file, I set:
> default-recipient-self
> which I assume means that the default key (I only have one) is used for
> both encryption and decryption.  However, I receive:

    In GPG.CONF:
default-key 0xCFAF704C
default-recipient-self
encrypt-to 0xCFAF704C
    means that the default key for signature is defined; and the message or 
file will be encrypted always to it too, for your personal use, otherwise you 
couldn't read your own message.

    If you got the public key of the other person, you need to tell GNUPG what 
you want; two ways for that:
Add "-r person" on the command line
    or
default-recipient person (in GPG.CONF)


- -- 
Laurent Jumet
      KeyID: 0xCFAF704C
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