Check if GPG is Already Installed

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Last updated: Oct 23, 2024 by Kinga Huszno
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If you have Cygwin (a suite of software that gives a Windows machine much of the functionality of a Linux machine) you may already have GPG installed

Execute the following command:

$ gpg --version

If there is a GPG version installed properly, you will get a similar output:

gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14 libgcrypt 1.4.5 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: ~/.gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

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