I landed on this documentation page while searching for a way to encrypt a file in gentoo linux. I just wanted a way to encrypt a file so that the data could only be viewed with a password--without all the "secret key" nonsense. After much more searching on many other websites, I found the solution was not the "encrypt" (-e) function of gpg, but the "symmetric cipher" (-c) function of gpg. I'm sure there are many other people who landed on the GnuPG doc page with the intentions that I had. I think that a section covering symmetic cipher encryption with gpg would greatly benefit the article. Reproducible: Always gpg -c file.txt <enter passphrase> gpg -o file.txt.decrypted -d file.txt.gpg <enter passphrase>
Regarding symmetric cyphers: you know how to do it, so feel free to write a section on it.
I do too, and I know GuideXML ;-) Actually not that hard...
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