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Alright guys, I tried using this as I was curious, and miserably failed.

Found out I needed GPG, and some encryption key or ID and whatnot. I have no clue what these things are and would like to know.

How can I learn about this encryption stuff like keys and RAS and whatnot? (Books n Articles)



Archlinux wiki typically have very good guides:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pass

The simplest way to create your gpg-id is with:

$ gpg --gen-key

Fill in your name and email in the prompts. When it tells you it needs to generate a lot of random bytes, you'll probably want to do something like

$ find /

to generate disk entropy for gpg to pull enough random bytes from /dev/random to create your keys.

You can use the email you provided as the gpg-id you give to pass

$ pass init $email


This is a great tutorial in setting up pass on multiple accounts: https://medium.com/@davidpiegza/using-pass-in-a-team-1aa7adf...




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