{"id":11165,"date":"2021-07-27T16:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T23:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/docs\/porta-sftp-server\/communicate-securely\/how-to-generate-your-key-pair\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:28:05","slug":"how-to-generate-your-key-pair","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/docs\/porta-sftp-server\/communicate-securely\/how-to-generate-your-key-pair\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Generate Your Key Pair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Download then install the Gpg4Win that contains the Kleopatra Crypto-Manager: Gpg4win – Download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To generate your key pair using the Kleopatra user interface please follow the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figure 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go to File<\/strong> and select “New Key Pair”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select the “Create a personal OpenPGP key pair”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note.<\/em> Depending on your computer speed you have to wait a minute or two to generate the key pair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating a backup of the secret key.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Export your public key by right-clicking the name of the created key pair. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note.<\/em> You can also change Passphrase\/Password(if you want to) before exporting its public key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":11078,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_is_vendor_doc":"0","footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11165","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24594,"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11165\/revisions\/24594"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11078"}],"next":[{"title":"How To Apply File Encryption","link":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/docs\/porta-sftp-server\/communicate-securely\/how-to-encrypt-a-file\/","href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11439"}],"prev":[{"title":"Gpg4win Setups","link":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/docs\/porta-sftp-server\/communicate-securely\/contact-us-via-profile-page\/","href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}