This article explains to you how to manage email encryption using GNU Privacy Guard Keys in cPanel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The GNU Privacy Guard, also referred to as GnuPG or PGP, is an open-source, free program that implements public-key cryptography. Email messages, files, and other data can be encrypted and decrypted using public and private keys, or keypairs, in public-key cryptography systems. Senders encrypt items using the recipient’s public key, while recipients decrypt the contents using their own private keys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is easy to create, import, view and delete keys by using cPanel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make sure that you create a new keypair first, so as to use GnuPG encryption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perform the following steps to create a new GnuPG keypair :<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Log in to cPanel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Go to Email<\/strong> section on the cPanel home screen, and click on Encryption<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Under Create a New Key<\/strong> section, type your name in the text box for Name<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. In the text box for Your Email<\/strong>, type your e-mail address<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Type a comment or nickname for the key in the text box provided for the Comment\/Nickname<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Type the password that you want in the text box for the Key Password<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Again type the Password in the Password<\/strong> (Again)<\/strong> text box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. In the text box for Expire Date<\/strong>, type an expiration date for the key. The default expiration date is one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Select a key size in the text box for the Key Size<\/strong> list box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Click on Generate Key<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the process gets completed, it will show you The Key has been successfully created appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can import your public key, only if you already have a keypair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. On the cPanel home screen, go to the Email<\/strong> section and click on Encryption<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Click on Import Key<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Copy and Paste your text key into the text box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Make sure when you copy-paste the text, you include following lines at the key\u2019s beginning and ending lines :<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014\u2014BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK\u2014\u2014-Key data<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014\u2014END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Click on Import<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Go to Email<\/strong> section on the cPanel home screen and click on Encryption<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Identify and locate the key<\/strong> that you wish to view or delete. For each email address, there will be separate private and a public key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Click on View<\/strong> to view the key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Identify and locate the private key<\/strong> and click on Delete GnuPG Key<\/strong>, to delete the key. Then click on Yes to confirm your deletion. It will delete both the private and public key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article explains to you how to manage email encryption using GNU Privacy Guard Keys in cPanel. What is GnuPG? The GNU Privacy Guard, also referred to as GnuPG or PGP, is an open-source, free program that implements public-key cryptography. Email messages, files, and other data can be encrypted and decrypted using public and private […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23377,"menu_order":669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-17270","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17274,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17270\/revisions\/17274"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostvento.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=17270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}# Steps to Import a Key<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
# Steps to view and delete a key<\/h2>\n\n\n\n