NAME¶
pgpgpg - wrapper around Gnu Privacy Guard that takes Pretty Good Privacy command
line options
SYNOPSIS¶
pgpgpg [options] pgpfile
pgpgpg -e [options] file user ...
DESCRIPTION¶
PGPGPG is a wrapper that allows calls to
GnuPG (Gnu Privacy Guard)
using the command line options of (Pretty Good Privacy).
PGP and
GnuPG are encryption programms with high security encryption engines.
However,
PGP is available without a fee but is not realy free software.
GnuPG on the other hand is realy free software and has additionally
features but with a different command line syntax than PGP.
The goal of
pgpgpg is to plug in a command line syntax in front of
GnuPG equal to
PGP 2.6.
OPTIONS¶
The following options are supported by
pgpgpg notice that long options do
not use the usual GNU syntax (--) but, instead are of the form
+option[=value].
- -e
- Encrypt a plaintext file.
- -d, -p
- Decrypt a plaintext file.
- -s
- Sign a plaintext file.
pgpgpg -s file [-u userid]
- -sb
- Create a separate signature certificate (a .sig
file) for a given file.
pgpgpg -sb file [-u userid]
- -c
- Use convential cryptography when encrypting.
- -o
- Output to the file specified. Should only be used for
encryption, decryption and signature operations (not for key
management).
- -a, +armor
- ASCII armor the output file.
- -u, +myname
- Select the userid to use for some operations.
- -kg
- Generate a unique public/secret pair.
- -ka
- Add a public or secret key to your key ring.
pgpgpg -ka keyfile [keyring]
- -kx
- Extract a copy from your public or secret keyring.
pgpgpg -kx[a] userid keyfile [keyring]
- -kv
- View the contents of your keyring.
pgpgpg -kv[v] [userid] [keyring]
- -kvc
- View a key fingerprint.
pgpgpg -kvc [userid] [keyring]
- -kr
- Remove a key from your keyring.
pgpgpg -kr userid [keyring]
- -kd
- If acting on your secret key, permanently revoke a key and
issue a compromise certificate. If acting on a public key, disable or
reenable a key.
pgpgpg -kd userid
- -ke
- Edit trust parameters for a public key or edit the pass
phrase or add a userid to a secret key.
pgpgpg -ke userid [keyring]
- -kc
- View the contents and check the certifying signatures of
your public key ring.
pgpgpg -kc [userid] [keyring]
- -ks
- Sign and certify someone's public key.
pgpgpg -ks userid [-u userid] [keyring]
The following options are ignored or unsupported:
++armorlines,
+autosign,
+bakring,
+interactive,
+keepbinary,
+language,
+legal_kludge,
+nomanual,
+pager,
+randseed,
+tmp and
+tzfix.
BUGS¶
PGPGPG does not currently provide an online help (
-h or
-?) and will not show a summary of commands, as PGP does, when typing:
pgp -k
The following options are not documented (yet):
+batchmode,
+cert_depth,
+charset,
+encrypttoself,
+force,
+clearsig,
+comment,
+completes_needed,
+compress,
+marginals_needed,
+pubring,
+secring,
+textmode
and
+verbose.
AUTHORS¶
PGP was originally written by Philip R. Zimmermann.
PGPGPG was
written by Michael Roth.
This manpage was written by Javier Fernández-Sanguino for the Debian
distribution (but may be used by others) by glancing at
PGP's manpage
and the source code from
PGPGPG (pgpopts.c)