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Comment by vitaluha | Hacker News Reader

"To encrypt a File:"

    gpg -o encrypted_file.gpg –encrypt -r original.file

# they didn't put recipient after -r ?

In this case it will just prompt you for for the recipient. This command is too verbose though. You can type:

gpg -e file

The output will be file.gpg. It will ask you for a recipient unless you have "default-recipient" or "default-recipient-selt" set in gpg.conf.