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- Here's a quick summary of PGP v2.2 commands.
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- To encrypt a plaintext file with the recipient's public key:
- pgp -e textfile her_userid
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- To sign a plaintext file with your secret key:
- pgp -s textfile [-u your_userid]
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- To sign a plaintext file with your secret key, and then encrypt it
- with the recipient's public key:
- pgp -es textfile her_userid [-u your_userid]
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- To encrypt a plaintext file with just conventional cryptography, type:
- pgp -c textfile
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- To decrypt an encrypted file, or to check the signature integrity of a
- signed file:
- pgp ciphertextfile [-o plaintextfile]
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- To encrypt a message for any number of multiple recipients:
- pgp -e textfile userid1 userid2 userid3
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- --- Key management commands:
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- To generate your own unique public/secret key pair:
- pgp -kg
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- To add a public or secret key file's contents to your public or
- secret key ring:
- pgp -ka keyfile [keyring]
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- To extract (copy) a key from your public or secret key ring:
- pgp -kx userid keyfile [keyring]
- or: pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring]
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- To view the contents of your public key ring:
- pgp -kv[v] [userid] [keyring]
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- To view the "fingerprint" of a public key, to help verify it over
- the telephone with its owner:
- pgp -kvc [userid] [keyring]
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- To view the contents and check the certifying signatures of your
- public key ring:
- pgp -kc [userid] [keyring]
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- To edit the userid or pass phrase for your secret key:
- pgp -ke userid [keyring]
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- To edit the trust parameters for a public key:
- pgp -ke userid [keyring]
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- To remove a key or just a userid from your public key ring:
- pgp -kr userid [keyring]
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- To sign and certify someone else's public key on your public key ring:
- pgp -ks her_userid [-u your_userid] [keyring]
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- To remove selected signatures from a userid on a keyring:
- pgp -krs userid [keyring]
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- To permanently revoke your own key, issuing a key compromise
- certificate:
- pgp -kd your_userid
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- To disable or reenable a public key on your own public key ring:
- pgp -kd userid
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- --- Esoteric commands:
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- To decrypt a message and leave the signature on it intact:
- pgp -d ciphertextfile
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- To create a signature certificate that is detached from the document:
- pgp -sb textfile [-u your_userid]
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- To detach a signature certificate from a signed message:
- pgp -b ciphertextfile
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- --- Command options that can be used in combination with other
- command options (sometimes even spelling interesting words!):
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- To produce a ciphertext file in ASCII radix-64 format, just add the
- -a option when encrypting or signing a message or extracting a key:
- pgp -sea textfile her_userid
- or: pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring]
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- To wipe out the plaintext file after producing the ciphertext file,
- just add the -w (wipe) option when encrypting or signing a message:
- pgp -sew message.txt her_userid
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- To specify that a plaintext file contains ASCII text, not binary, and
- should be converted to recipient's local text line conventions, add
- the -t (text) option to other options:
- pgp -seat message.txt her_userid
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- To view the decrypted plaintext output on your screen (like the
- Unix-style "more" command), without writing it to a file, use
- the -m (more) option while decrypting:
- pgp -m ciphertextfile
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- To specify that the recipient's decrypted plaintext will be shown
- ONLY on her screen and cannot be saved to disk, add the -m option:
- pgp -steam message.txt her_userid
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- To recover the original plaintext filename while decrypting, add
- the -p option:
- pgp -p ciphertextfile
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- To use a Unix-style filter mode, reading from standard input and
- writing to standard output, add the -f option:
- pgp -feast her_userid <inputfile >outputfile
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