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Annotation of pgp/pgp.hlp, revision 1.1.1.2

1.1.1.2 ! root        1: Here's a quick summary of PGP v2.2 commands.
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1.1       root        3: 
                      4: To encrypt a plaintext file with the recipient's public key:
                      5:      pgp -e textfile her_userid
                      6: 
                      7: To sign a plaintext file with your secret key:
                      8:      pgp -s textfile [-u your_userid]
                      9: 
                     10: To sign a plaintext file with your secret key, and then encrypt it 
                     11: with the recipient's public key:
                     12:      pgp -es textfile her_userid [-u your_userid]
                     13: 
                     14: To encrypt a plaintext file with just conventional cryptography, type:
                     15:      pgp -c textfile
                     16: 
                     17: To decrypt an encrypted file, or to check the signature integrity of a
                     18: signed file:
                     19:      pgp ciphertextfile [-o plaintextfile]
                     20: 
1.1.1.2 ! root       21: To encrypt a message for any number of multiple recipients:
        !            22:      pgp -e textfile userid1 userid2 userid3
1.1       root       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: 
1.1.1.2 ! root       63: To permanently revoke your own key, issuing a key compromise 
1.1       root       64: certificate:
                     65:      pgp -kd your_userid
                     66: 
1.1.1.2 ! root       67: To disable or reenable a public key on your own public key ring:
        !            68:      pgp -kd userid
        !            69: 
1.1       root       70: --- Esoteric commands:
                     71: 
                     72: To decrypt a message and leave the signature on it intact:
                     73:      pgp -d ciphertextfile
                     74: 
                     75: To create a signature certificate that is detached from the document:
                     76:      pgp -sb textfile [-u your_userid]
                     77: 
                     78: To detach a signature certificate from a signed message:
                     79:      pgp -b ciphertextfile
                     80: 
                     81: --- Command options that can be used in combination with other 
                     82: command options (sometimes even spelling interesting words!):
                     83: 
                     84: To produce a ciphertext file in ASCII radix-64 format, just add the
                     85: -a option when encrypting or signing a message or extracting a key:
                     86:      pgp -sea textfile her_userid
                     87: or:  pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring]
                     88: 
                     89: To wipe out the plaintext file after producing the ciphertext file,
                     90: just add the -w (wipe) option when encrypting or signing a message:
                     91:      pgp -sew message.txt her_userid
                     92: 
                     93: To specify that a plaintext file contains ASCII text, not binary, and
                     94: should be converted to recipient's local text line conventions, add
                     95: the -t (text) option to other options:
                     96:      pgp -seat message.txt her_userid
                     97: 
                     98: To view the decrypted plaintext output on your screen (like the
                     99: Unix-style "more" command), without writing it to a file, use 
                    100: the -m (more) option while decrypting:
                    101:      pgp -m ciphertextfile
                    102: 
                    103: To specify that the recipient's decrypted plaintext will be shown
                    104: ONLY on her screen and cannot be saved to disk, add the -m option:
                    105:      pgp -steam message.txt her_userid
                    106: 
                    107: To recover the original plaintext filename while decrypting, add 
                    108: the -p option:
                    109:      pgp -p ciphertextfile
                    110: 
                    111: To use a Unix-style filter mode, reading from standard input and
                    112: writing to standard output, add the -f option:
                    113:      pgp -feast her_userid <inputfile >outputfile
                    114: 

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