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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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