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1.1     ! root        1: News for PGP 2.2
        !             2: 
        !             3: The main change since PGP 2.1 is a speedup in key management, and 
        !             4: the ability to encrypt for more than one recipient.  Apart from
        !             5: this there are some bugfixes and some new options to make it easier
        !             6: to use PGP from shell scripts or mailers.
        !             7: 
        !             8: You can encrypt for more than one recipient by specifying additional
        !             9: userids on the command line eg:
        !            10: 
        !            11:        pgp -e plaintext Alice Bob Carol
        !            12: 
        !            13: 
        !            14: Some notes about the changes:
        !            15: 
        !            16: - PGP doesn't do a keycheck on a keyfile before it is added anymore,
        !            17: this is to speed up merging a big keyfile with your public keyring which
        !            18: may already have most of the keys in the keyfile you are adding.  After
        !            19: PGP has checked a signature it sets a flag in your public keyring to
        !            20: mark this signature as checked.  Because PGP 2.1 didn't have these
        !            21: flags, PGP will check *all* signatures on your keyring the first time
        !            22: you add a key with PGP 2.2.  After that PGP will only check new
        !            23: signatures.  Also by using an older version than 2.2 on your keyring you
        !            24: will clear these flags again.
        !            25: 
        !            26: 
        !            27: New options:
        !            28: 
        !            29: +interactive
        !            30:        If you add a keyfile, PGP will ask for each new key if it should
        !            31:        be added to your keyring.
        !            32: 
        !            33: Options for use in shell scripts:
        !            34: 
        !            35: +verbose=n
        !            36:        The default is 1.  With +verbose=0, PGP will only print an error
        !            37:        message if something goes wrong.  With +verbose=2, PGP will tell
        !            38:        you what it's doing in detail suitable for debugging.
        !            39: 
        !            40: +force
        !            41:        Overwrite output file without asking, or with -kr: remove key
        !            42:        without asking (only if it has just one userid).
        !            43: 
        !            44: +batchmode
        !            45:        With this option PGP won't ask any questions or prompt for
        !            46:        alternate file names.  Some of the key commands still need
        !            47:        user interaction and can't be done from a shell script.
        !            48:        You can also use this option to check if a file has a good
        !            49:        signature.  If the input file did not have a signature the exit
        !            50:        code will be 1, if the file had a signature and if it checked OK
        !            51:        the exit code will be 0.  Note that if the input file has more
        !            52:        than one armored messages, a good signature on one of these
        !            53:        messages will make the exit code 0 (if there are no errors).
        !            54: 
        !            55: These "long" options can be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is
        !            56: unambiguous.  "interactive" and "verbose" can also be set in config.txt;
        !            57: you can then turn these flags off on the command line with +option=.
        !            58: 
        !            59: 
        !            60: Some of the bug fixes:
        !            61: 
        !            62: - Key lookup on keyID (eg 0x12AB) fixed for -ks/-krs.
        !            63: 
        !            64: - Dearmoring of Macintosh type text files (CR only) now also works.
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