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Annotation of pgp/pgp.hlp, revision 1.1.1.6

1.1.1.5   root        1: Here's a quick summary of PGP v2.6 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: 
1.1.1.6 ! root        9: To sign a plaintext file with your secret key and have the output
        !            10: readable to people without running PGP first:
        !            11:      pgp -sta textfile [-u your_userid]
        !            12: 
1.1.1.5   root       13: To sign a plaintext file with your secret key, and then encrypt it 
                     14: with the recipient's public key:
                     15:      pgp -es textfile her_userid [-u your_userid]
                     16: 
                     17: To encrypt a plaintext file with just conventional cryptography, type:
                     18:      pgp -c textfile
                     19: 
                     20: To decrypt an encrypted file, or to check the signature integrity of a
                     21: signed file:
                     22:      pgp ciphertextfile [-o plaintextfile]
                     23: 
                     24: To encrypt a message for any number of multiple recipients:
                     25:      pgp -e textfile userid1 userid2 userid3
                     26: 
                     27: --- Key management commands:
                     28: 
                     29: To generate your own unique public/secret key pair:
                     30:      pgp -kg
                     31: 
                     32: To add a public or secret key file's contents to your public or
                     33: secret key ring:
                     34:      pgp -ka keyfile [keyring]
                     35: 
                     36: To extract (copy) a key from your public or secret key ring:
                     37:      pgp -kx userid keyfile [keyring]
                     38: or:  pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring]
                     39: 
                     40: To view the contents of your public key ring:
                     41:      pgp -kv[v] [userid] [keyring] 
                     42: 
                     43: To view the "fingerprint" of a public key, to help verify it over 
                     44: the telephone with its owner:
                     45:      pgp -kvc [userid] [keyring]
                     46: 
                     47: To view the contents and check the certifying signatures of your 
                     48: public key ring:
                     49:      pgp -kc [userid] [keyring] 
                     50: 
                     51: To edit the userid or pass phrase for your secret key:
                     52:      pgp -ke userid [keyring]
                     53: 
                     54: To edit the trust parameters for a public key:
                     55:      pgp -ke userid [keyring]
                     56: 
                     57: To remove a key or just a userid from your public key ring:
                     58:      pgp -kr userid [keyring]
                     59: 
                     60: To sign and certify someone else's public key on your public key ring:
                     61:      pgp -ks her_userid [-u your_userid] [keyring]
                     62: 
                     63: To remove selected signatures from a userid on a keyring:
                     64:      pgp -krs userid [keyring]
                     65: 
                     66: To permanently revoke your own key, issuing a key compromise 
                     67: certificate:
                     68:      pgp -kd your_userid
                     69: 
                     70: To disable or reenable a public key on your own public key ring:
                     71:      pgp -kd userid
                     72: 
                     73: --- Esoteric commands:
                     74: 
                     75: To decrypt a message and leave the signature on it intact:
                     76:      pgp -d ciphertextfile
                     77: 
                     78: To create a signature certificate that is detached from the document:
                     79:      pgp -sb textfile [-u your_userid]
                     80: 
                     81: To detach a signature certificate from a signed message:
                     82:      pgp -b ciphertextfile
                     83: 
                     84: --- Command options that can be used in combination with other 
                     85:     command options (sometimes even spelling interesting words!):
                     86: 
                     87: To produce a ciphertext file in ASCII radix-64 format, just add the
                     88: -a option when encrypting or signing a message or extracting a key:
                     89:      pgp -sea textfile her_userid
                     90: or:  pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring]
                     91: 
                     92: To wipe out the plaintext file after producing the ciphertext file,
                     93: just add the -w (wipe) option when encrypting or signing a message:
                     94:      pgp -sew message.txt her_userid
                     95: 
                     96: To specify that a plaintext file contains ASCII text, not binary, and
                     97: should be converted to recipient's local text line conventions, add
                     98: the -t (text) option to other options:
                     99:      pgp -seat message.txt her_userid
                    100: 
                    101: To view the decrypted plaintext output on your screen (like the
                    102: Unix-style "more" command), without writing it to a file, use 
                    103: the -m (more) option while decrypting:
                    104:      pgp -m ciphertextfile
                    105: 
                    106: To specify that the recipient's decrypted plaintext will be shown
                    107: ONLY on her screen and cannot be saved to disk, add the -m option:
                    108:      pgp -steam message.txt her_userid
                    109: 
                    110: To recover the original plaintext filename while decrypting, add 
                    111: the -p option:
                    112:      pgp -p ciphertextfile
                    113: 
                    114: To use a Unix-style filter mode, reading from standard input and
                    115: writing to standard output, add the -f option:
                    116:      pgp -feast her_userid <inputfile >outputfile

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