GNUPG(7)

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version 2.4.9 · 7 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 GNUPG(7) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the GNU Privacy Guard era. this is the manual page for the whole suite — like, the family portrait, not just one tool. it lives in the GNU Privacy Guard 2.4 manual, and yes, we're gonna go through every single thing it says, no skipping, no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

GnuPG</puruple> — the GNU Privacy Guard suite of programs. it's giving ✨a whole friend group✨ not just one bestie.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so. GnuPG is a set of programs for public key encryption and digital signatures. that's the whole vibe. it's not one binary, it's a squad, and each member has their own main character energy. let's meet them 🫶

  • gpg — the one everybody actually wants. it's the OpenPGP command line tool, aka the icon, the moment, the reason you're here. if you only ever learn one of these, it's her. 👑
  • gpgv — okay so she's a stripped down version of gpg with no encryption functionality at all. her one job? verifying signatures against a trusted keyring. that's it. that's the whole personality. and honestly? she ate. 💅
  • gpgsm — the X.509/CMS counterpart of gpg (you know, for S/MIME). same energy, different certificate universe. 🦋
  • gpg-agent — the passphrase and private key daemon. she's the backstage crew holding everyone's secrets. and plot twist: she may also emulate the ssh-agent. multitasking queen fr fr. 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these next, bestie, they're all linked:

📚 the full documentation situation 📚

so the full documentation for this tool is maintained as a Texinfo manual. if GnuPG and the info program are properly installed at your site, this command:

info gnupg

should give you access to the complete manual — including a menu structure and an index. like, the whole thing. the deluxe edition. 🎀

ngl if info gnupg doesn't work for you, that's a your install problem, not a this page problem. the manual says "if... properly installed at your site," and we're just reporting the facts. 🙈

okay that's the whole page, you understood all of it, you're literally a cryptography girlie now 💜

this was GnuPG 2.4.9, dated 2026-01-28, from the GNU Privacy Guard 2.4 series — mwah, love that for us. bye bestie!! 💖✨🎀

📦 where this page comes from
  • fedora 43: gnupg2 2.4.9-5.fc43 · CC0-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND (BSD-3-Clause OR LGPL-3.0-or-later OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND CC-BY-4.0 AND MIT
  • 💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms