mutt_pgpring(1)

📦 version 2.4.3, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet mutt_pgpring — she's a Mutt key ring dumper, and she's literally the plug for pulling your PGP key info out of the dusty binary vault. ✨

🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

mutt_pgpring [ -k keyring ] [ -2 | -5 ] [ -s ] [ -S ] [ -f ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. short, sweet, iconic. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, mutt_pgpring is a key ring dumper. what does that mean in girl terms? it goes into PGP's binary key ring (yes, the cursed binary one, the one that looks like alphabet soup) and extracts information from it, then spits it back out in an (almost) readable output format. 💅

and who eats that output? mutt's key selection routines — they understand this format natively, no translator needed, no cap. 🫶

here's the tea though: this output format mimics the one used by the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). so if you're like "wait, this looks familiar," yeah babe, it's giving GPG on purpose. 😌

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -k keyring — dump the contents of the specified keyring. you point, she dumps. simple as. 💖
  • -2 — use the default keyring for PGP 2.x. old school, retro, vintage energy. 🕰️
  • -5 — use the default keyring for PGP 5. the newer sibling. 🌈
  • -s — dump the secret keyring. 🤫 like, the secret secret. keep that under wraps bestie.
  • -S — dump signatures. who signed what, receipts included. ✍️
  • -f — dump fingerprints. the unique little identifiers, like a glow-up ID card. 🔍
ok but note the case sensitivity on -s vs -S — lowercase is the secret keyring, uppercase is signatures. two totally different girls, do not confuse them. 💀

🎀 ENVIRONMENT 🎀

  • HOME — full path of the user's home directory. your main character headquarters. 🏠
  • PGPPATH — the directory where the user's PGP public keyring can be found. that's where she goes looking when you don't tell her where to look. 🔎

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> — the legend, the blueprint, the icon who made this happen. bow down. 🙇‍♀️

and that's the whole page babes, no cap, fr fr. this was the mutt_pgpring manual from Unix, dated May 2013 — she's a little vintage but she still eats. periodt. 💅✨🦋🌸🎀💖

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