diff --git a/.gnupg/gpg.conf b/.gnupg/gpg.conf
index 2b0f376..71f0134 100644
--- a/.gnupg/gpg.conf
+++ b/.gnupg/gpg.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
-personal-cipher-preferences AES256
-personal-digest-preferences SHA512
-personal-compress-preferences BZIP2
+no-greeting
+default-recipient-self
+armor
+charset utf-8i
+default-preference-list AES256 TWOFISH SHA512 SHA256 BZIP2 ZLIB
+keyid-format 0xlong
+keyserver  hkp://keys.gnupg.net
+keyserver  hkp://pgp.mit.edu
+personal-cipher-preferences AES256 TWOFISH
+personal-compress-preferences BZIP2 ZLIB
+personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA256
 s2k-cipher-algo AES256
 s2k-digest-algo SHA256
-armor
+use-agent
+utf8-strings