Knowledge Base / FAQ

16 articles in the FAQ section in our Knowledge Base.

• How to best use this support forum?

  First published January 17, 2012. Updated: August 19, 2015

• OpenPGP solutions for all operating systems

  First published March 03, 2013. Updated: May 28, 2025

• Should I sign outgoing messages when contacts are not using OpenPGP?

  First published August 11, 2017. Updated: June 05, 2019

• Key Server

  First published July 22, 2019. Updated: May 31, 2022

• Password management

  First published March 20, 2012. Updated: October 02, 2017

• How can I generate debugging information?

  First published November 28, 2011. Updated: January 17, 2021

• What is Ownertrust? Trust-levels explained

  First published April 04, 2016. Updated: August 15, 2017

• Uninstall GPG Suite

  First published March 25, 2012. Updated: September 26, 2024

• Missing keys after migrating to GnuPG 2.2

  First published September 30, 2017. Updated: February 21, 2018

• Where can I find version info of the installed tools?

  First published June 09, 2013. Updated: October 29, 2022

• How to contribute

  First published November 11, 2011. Updated: August 26, 2019

• What if I have a self-compiled or very old version of GnuPG 1.x or 2.0.x?

  First published March 21, 2012. Updated: November 09, 2017

• Enter passphrase with pinentry in Terminal via SSH connection

  First published April 11, 2013. Updated: June 24, 2015

• Networked Home broken

  First published June 04, 2012. Updated: June 01, 2017

• Overview of background tasks

  First published April 24, 2015. Updated: January 05, 2023

• Modification Detection Code (MDC) Errors

  First published June 18, 2018. Updated: June 17, 2025