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Here's a quick summary of PGP v2.3 commands
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pgp -e textfile her_userid To encrypt a plaintext file with the
recipient's public key:
pgp -s textfile [-u your_userid] To sign a plaintext file with your
secret key:
pgp -es textfile her_userid [-u your_userid] To sign a plaintext file with
your secret key, and then encrypt it
with the recipient's public key:
pgp -c textfile To encrypt a plaintext file with just
conventional cryptography, type:
pgp ciphertextfile [-o plaintextfile] To decrypt an encrypted file, or to
check the signature integrity of a
signed file:
pgp -e textfile userid1 userid2 userid3 To encrypt a message for any
number of multiple recipients:
--- Key management commands: ---
pgp -kg To generate your own unique
public/secret key pair:
pgp -ka keyfile [keyring] To add a public or secret key file's
contents to your public or secret key
ring:
pgp -kx userid keyfile [keyring] or: To extract (copy) a key from your
pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring] public or secret key ring:
pgp -kv[v] [userid] [keyring] To view the contents of your public
key ring:
pgp -kvc [userid] [keyring] To view the "fingerprint" of a public
key, to help verify it over the
telephone with its owner:
pgp -kc [userid] [keyring] To view the contents and check the
certifying signatures of your public
key ring:
pgp -ke userid [keyring] To edit the userid or pass phrase for
your secret key:
pgp -ke userid [keyring] To edit the trust parameters for a
public key:
pgp -kr userid [keyring] To remove a key or just a userid from
your public key ring:
pgp -ks her_userid [-u your_userid] [keyring] To sign and certify someone
else's public key on your public key
ring:
pgp -krs userid [keyring] To remove selected signatures from a
userid on a keyring:
pgp -kd your_userid To permanently revoke your own key,
issuing a key compromise certificate:
pgp -kd userid To disable or reenable a public key on
your own public key ring:
--- Esoteric commands: ---
pgp -n To switch PGP into 2.6 mode, meaning
that the generated files will not be
readable by earlier versions.
pgp -d ciphertextfile To decrypt a message and leave the
signature on it intact:
pgp -sb textfile [-u your_userid] To create a signature certificate that
is detached from the document:
pgp -b ciphertextfile To detach a signature certificate from
a signed message:
--- Command options that can be used in combination with other ---
--- command options (sometimes even spelling interesting words!): ---
pgp -sea textfile her_userid or: To produce a ciphertext file in ASCII
pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring] radix-64 format, just add the -a option
when encrypting or signing a message
or extracting a key:
pgp -sew message.txt her_userid To wipe out the plaintext file after
producing the ciphertext file, just add
the -w (wipe) option when encrypting or
signing a message:
pgp -seat message.txt her_userid 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 -m ciphertextfile 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 -steam message.txt her_userid 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 -p ciphertextfile To recover the original plaintext
filename while decrypting, add the
-p option:
pgp -feast her_userid <inputfile >outputfile To use a Unix-style filter
mode, reading from standard input and
writing to standard output, add the
-f option: