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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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