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#Pgp for mac install#
#Pgp for mac software#
#Pgp for mac password#

To export your private key, run the following replacing in both places with your email address used when creating the key. If you don't do this, your keys could be forever lost or worse. This step is critical to the safety of your GPG keys. If you are unsure about any of the above, the screenshot below shows the entire key creation process.

#Pgp for mac password#

Please ensure this is a secure password that you have not used anywhere else. You will now be prompted for your master key passphrase.

If everything looks good at this point, hit o for Okay.

If you’d like to enter a comment for the key, you can do so next.

We will reference this email as for the remainder of this guide.

Next provide the email address you want to use for receiving encrypted email.

For the Real Name, we suggest picking the same “friendly name” you use for outgoing email from Cerb.

Now GPG needs to know who this key is for.

For expiration, we suggest picking 0 so the key doesn’t expire.

Type 4096 to set the highest security that GPG currently supports.

Now you are prompted for how long the RSA key should be.

Confirm that the current allowed actions only lists Certify, then type q and hit enter to finish setting capabilities.

Next type e and hit enter to toggle off the Encrypt capability.

When prompted for capabilities, type s and hit enter to toggle off the Sign capability.

Next you want to toggle off the sign and encrypt capabilities from the key.

When prompted for what kind of key, pick option: (8) RSA (set your own capabilities).

To generate the master key, follow these steps: This limits the damage that can be done if the master key is ever compromised. We will be removing the Sign and Encrypt capabilities from the master key forcing usage of subkeys for those operations.

#Pgp for mac install#

To install GPG with Homebrew, it’s as simple as:

#Pgp for mac software#

GPG is a free software alternative to the closed source commercial PGP. To generate your keys, you need to install GnuPG (aka GPG).

Please visit and follow the instructions to install it. If that isn’t the case, Homebrew is a package manager (similar to RPM or deb on Linux) that makes This guide assumes you use Homebrew to install packages on your Mac. We will release platform specific guides for them in the future. If you are running Linux or Windows, the instructions below can be used with some modifications. At the minimum, we recommend that you create a subkey following the steps documented here so you won’t be storing your master key on the server. If you want automatic decryption of messages, you need to consider the security implications of leaving your private key on the server. This is the most secure option, but the content of the message won’t be readable or searchable within Cerb. If you receive an encrypted message that can’t be decrypted, Cerb will leave the encrypted content as an attachment on the message that you can decrypt offline. To automatically decrypt a received encrypted message in Cerb, you need to have the corresponding private key in your keyring.

Using Key-server.io’s public key server.

Using your newly created GPG key with Cerb.