How to extract a gpg file

Question

I have a file that is compressed. I used a program to find out what kind of file it is and it says that it's a gpg file. How do you uncompress a gpg file?

Answer 1

If I recall completely, a 'gpg' file is encrypted rather than compressed.
What you need to do is use the gnupg tool to decrypt it -- of course using a key.
Or, its the security key file itself. In which case there is not data here, just the key to decrypt other encrypted data.

The decrypted file may then itself be compressed/archived in some other format,
which can be used to open its contents.