PGP(5.0) User Manual PGP(5.0)

NAME
pgpe - Encrypts and signs messages

SYNOPSIS
pgpe -r <recipient> [-s [-u <myid>]] [-aftz]
[-o <outfile>] file ...

pgpe -c [-aftz] [-o outfile] file ...

DESCRIPTION
pgpe encrypts and signs files using public key cryptogra-
phy, or encrypts files using conventional cryptography.

OPTIONS
All configuration options can be controlled from the com-
mand 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 (-r, -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

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(such as 0x12345678). Specifying this switch with-
out specifying -s (sign) does nothing.

-z Batch mode. See pgp-integration(7) for a discus-
sion of integrating pgp support into your applica-
tion.

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.

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).

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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