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> This does the whole symmetric encryption for me using `gpg` gpg actually uses a public/secret key pair with pass which has a pretty cool effect that you don'
by geoka9 1y ago
> This does the whole symmetric encryption for me using `gpg`
gpg actually uses a public/secret key pair with pass which has a pretty cool effect that you don't need to enter your passphrase when adding an entry to the store, because it uses the public key to encrypt.
- mid-kid 1y agoYou're right, gpg does asymmetric encryption. Don't know how I got that wrong, lol. But yeah the asymmetric part isn't really used in this context.