GPGPARTICIPANTS(1)

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💖 GPGPARTICIPANTS 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this little icon is the gpgparticipants manual page from the General Commands Manual and it's literally about to make your keysigning party not a total mess 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

gpgparticipants — generate paper list for keysigning party 📝🔑

no cap, that's the whole job. it makes the paper. you bring the pens. 🖊️

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gpgparticipants [OPTIONS] {input|-} {output|-} datestring organizer title

that's the shape of it: options, then where to read keys from, then where to write the list, then three lil strings. 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so gpgparticipants is made for the organisers of a keysigning party — specifically one running the Zimmermann-Sassaman key-signing protocol. iykyk. 🤝

it creates a file with all the keys from a list of participators in your keysigning party. you hand it a list of key ID's plus some general variables, and it generates a file you can publish. 📄✨

then the plot twist: you publish that list, the participants download it and print it, and they bring the printout with them to the party. that's the whole loop, that's the vibe. 🖨️🎉

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -aHASHES, --algorithm=HASHES — for each algorithm in HASHES (a comma-separated list of digest algorithms supported by gpg(1)), it adds a placeholder for the digest value to the output file, so the participants can fill it in themselves. 🖊️ default: SHA256,RIPEMD160. periodt.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • HOME — sets the default home directory. 🏠
  • GNUPGBIN — sets the gpg binary. default: "gpg". 🔧
  • GNUPGHOME — sets the default working directory for gpg. default: "~/.gnupg". 📁

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

want a KSP file with all the keys present in the keyring? say less:

gpg --with-colons --fingerprint | sed -n "/^pub:/ {n; /^fpr:/p}" | cut -sd: -f10 | \
        gpgparticipants - ksp-file.txt "20080222 1100" "My Name <my.name@my.mail>" "my party 08"

that pipe chain ate and left no crumbs. 🔥

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

this manual page was written by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>. giving credit where credit is due, always. 💜

heads up bestie: this page lives in the General Commands Manual section, and this particular copy is dated March 05, 2008. so yeah, it's vintage, it's iconic, it's giving classic Debian energy. 💀🌸

go forth and keysign, you absolute main character. ⭐👑

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