PGP(1)

👑 PGP(1) — the group chat version 💅

okay bestie, welcome to pgpgpg, section 1 of the general commands manual, no cap ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pgpgpg — it's a wrapper around Gnu Privacy Guard that takes Pretty Good Privacy command line options 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pgpgpg [options] pgpfile

pgpgpg -e [options] file user ...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so. PGPGPG is a wrapper that lets you call GnuPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) using the command line options of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). PGP and GnuPG are both encryption programs with high security encryption engines 🔥. However — and this is the whole tea — PGP is available without a fee but is not really free software. GnuPG on the other hand is really free software and has additional 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. literally the translator of the encryption world 🌈

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💅 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]. yes bestie, the plus sign. iconic behavior, we don't question it 🎀

• -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 conventional 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. sorry bestie, they're just not giving 💀

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😭 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. 🙈 mystery behavior fr fr

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

PGP was originally written by Philip R. Zimmermann. PGPGPG was written by Michael Roth.

This manpage was written by Javier Fernandez-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). 🎀

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🌟 this is PGPGPG Version 0.13, manual page PGP(1) — go forth and encrypt responsibly, mwah 💋💖✨