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1.1     ! root        1: Here's a quick summary of PGP v2.1 commands...
        !             2: 
        !             3: To encrypt a plaintext file with the recipient's public key:
        !             4:      pgp -e textfile her_userid
        !             5: 
        !             6: To sign a plaintext file with your secret key:
        !             7:      pgp -s textfile [-u your_userid]
        !             8: 
        !             9: To sign a plaintext file with your secret key, and then encrypt it 
        !            10: with the recipient's public key:
        !            11:      pgp -es textfile her_userid [-u your_userid]
        !            12: 
        !            13: To encrypt a plaintext file with just conventional cryptography, type:
        !            14:      pgp -c textfile
        !            15: 
        !            16: To decrypt an encrypted file, or to check the signature integrity of a
        !            17: signed file:
        !            18:      pgp ciphertextfile [-o plaintextfile]
        !            19: 
        !            20: To decrypt a multi-part ASCII armored file: save all parts in the right
        !            21: order to a file with .asc extension, then type:
        !            22:      pgp armorfile [-o plaintextfile]
        !            23: 
        !            24: --- Key management commands:
        !            25: 
        !            26: To generate your own unique public/secret key pair:
        !            27:      pgp -kg
        !            28: 
        !            29: To add a public or secret key file's contents to your public or
        !            30: secret key ring:
        !            31:      pgp -ka keyfile [keyring]
        !            32: 
        !            33: To extract (copy) a key from your public or secret key ring:
        !            34:      pgp -kx userid keyfile [keyring]
        !            35: or:  pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring]
        !            36: 
        !            37: To view the contents of your public key ring:
        !            38:      pgp -kv[v] [userid] [keyring] 
        !            39: 
        !            40: To view the "fingerprint" of a public key, to help verify it over 
        !            41: the telephone with its owner:
        !            42:      pgp -kvc [userid] [keyring]
        !            43: 
        !            44: To view the contents and check the certifying signatures of your 
        !            45: public key ring:
        !            46:      pgp -kc [userid] [keyring] 
        !            47: 
        !            48: To edit the userid or pass phrase for your secret key:
        !            49:      pgp -ke userid [keyring]
        !            50: 
        !            51: To edit the trust parameters for a public key:
        !            52:      pgp -ke userid [keyring]
        !            53: 
        !            54: To remove a key or just a userid from your public key ring:
        !            55:      pgp -kr userid [keyring]
        !            56: 
        !            57: To sign and certify someone else's public key on your public key ring:
        !            58:      pgp -ks her_userid [-u your_userid] [keyring]
        !            59: 
        !            60: To remove selected signatures from a userid on a keyring:
        !            61:      pgp -krs userid [keyring]
        !            62: 
        !            63: To permanently revoke your own key, issuing a key compromise
        !            64: certificate:
        !            65:      pgp -kd your_userid
        !            66: 
        !            67: --- Esoteric commands:
        !            68: 
        !            69: To decrypt a message and leave the signature on it intact:
        !            70:      pgp -d ciphertextfile
        !            71: 
        !            72: To create a signature certificate that is detached from the document:
        !            73:      pgp -sb textfile [-u your_userid]
        !            74: 
        !            75: To detach a signature certificate from a signed message:
        !            76:      pgp -b ciphertextfile
        !            77: 
        !            78: --- Command options that can be used in combination with other 
        !            79: command options (sometimes even spelling interesting words!):
        !            80: 
        !            81: To produce a ciphertext file in ASCII radix-64 format, just add the
        !            82: -a option when encrypting or signing a message or extracting a key:
        !            83:      pgp -sea textfile her_userid
        !            84: or:  pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring]
        !            85: 
        !            86: To wipe out the plaintext file after producing the ciphertext file,
        !            87: just add the -w (wipe) option when encrypting or signing a message:
        !            88:      pgp -sew message.txt her_userid
        !            89: 
        !            90: To specify that a plaintext file contains ASCII text, not binary, and
        !            91: should be converted to recipient's local text line conventions, add
        !            92: the -t (text) option to other options:
        !            93:      pgp -seat message.txt her_userid
        !            94: 
        !            95: To view the decrypted plaintext output on your screen (like the
        !            96: Unix-style "more" command), without writing it to a file, use 
        !            97: the -m (more) option while decrypting:
        !            98:      pgp -m ciphertextfile
        !            99: 
        !           100: To specify that the recipient's decrypted plaintext will be shown
        !           101: ONLY on her screen and cannot be saved to disk, add the -m option:
        !           102:      pgp -steam message.txt her_userid
        !           103: 
        !           104: To recover the original plaintext filename while decrypting, add 
        !           105: the -p option:
        !           106:      pgp -p ciphertextfile
        !           107: 
        !           108: To use a Unix-style filter mode, reading from standard input and
        !           109: writing to standard output, add the -f option:
        !           110:      pgp -feast her_userid <inputfile >outputfile
        !           111: 

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