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- PGPE(1) User Manual PGPE(1)
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- NAME
- pgpe - Encrypts and signs messages
-
- SYNOPSIS
- pgpe -r <recipient> [-s [-u <myid>]] [-o <outfile>] file ...
-
- pgpe -c [-aftz] [-o outfile] file ...
-
- DESCRIPTION
- pgpe encrypts and signs files using public key cryptography, or encrypts
- files using conventional cryptography.
-
- OPTIONS
- All configuration options can be controlled from the command line. See
- pgp.cfg(5) for a complete list and how to specify them.
-
- -a, --armor
- Turn on "ASCII Armoring." This outputs a text-only version of your
- encrypted text. This makes the result safe for mailing, but about 30%
- larger.
-
- -c Conventional encrypting mode. This uses IDEA to encrypt your message.
- As IDEA is a symmetric cipher, no public-key related arguments -s and
- -u) are accepted with this argument.
-
- -f Stream mode. Accepts input on stdin and places output on stdout. If
- no files are specified as arguments, pgp executes in this mode by
- default.
-
- -o outfile
- Specifies that output should go to outfile. If not specified, output
- goes to the default filename. The default filename for each input
- file is the input filename with ".pgp" appended, unless ASCII Armoring
- is turned on, in which case it is ".asc". It is an error to specify
- multiple input files with this option.
-
- -s Sign the document as well as encrypting it. If you wish to sign only,
- use pgps(1). This will use your default signing key, or the ID of the
- key specified with the -u option.
-
- -t Turns on text mode. This causes PGP to convert your input message to
- a platform-independent form. It is primarily for use when moving
- files from one operating system to another.
-
- -u Sets the ID of the key used for signing. This may be a user ID (such
- as foo@bar.baz.com) or a Key ID (such as 0x12345678). Specifying this
- switch without specifying -s (sign) does nothing.
-
- -z Batch mode. See pgp-integration(7) for a discussion of integrating
- pgp support into your application.
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- EXAMPLE
- pgpe -r foo@bar.baz.com -sat document.txt
- Signs and encrypts the file document.txt with ASCII Armoring and text
- mode on to foo@bar.baz.com's key. The resultant file will be
- document.txt.asc.
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- FILES
- ~/.pgp/pgp.cfg
- User-specific configuration file. In previous releases, this file was
- called config.txt. See pgp.cfg(5) for further details.
-
- BUGS
- See pgp(1).
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- SEE ALSO
- pgp(1), pgpv(1), pgps(1), pgpk(1),
- pgp.cfg(5),
- pgp-integration(7), http://www.pgp.com (US versions) and
- http://www.pgpi.com (International versions)
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