When I first heard GPG it was little daunting. I haven’t used it exactly, even though I was familar with the concept. So, I decided to dig deeper and understand how to use it. GnuPG (GPG) is an implementation of PGP The simple idea is that you generate a key pair: secret or private key and a public key. You can provide your public key to anyone. They can then encrypt either a secret or file using your public key.