decode(1)

💖 decode(1) — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair 🫶 this is the decode page from the Sequoia manual (yes, the actual manual page, section 1, iykyk) and we're gonna read it together like it's a group chat.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

decode — reads Autocrypt-encoded certificates. that's it, that's the whole job. she's a one-trick pony and the trick is iconic.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

decode [-o|--output] [-B|--binary] [-h|--help] [FILE]

look at her. compact. efficient. main character energy fr fr.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So. decode reads Autocrypt-encoded certificates. that's the vibe.

Here's the tea though ☕ — you hand her an autocrypt header (or a key-gossip header), and she reaches inside and pulls out the certificate that was encoded in there. like a little gift-wrapped cert 🎁 and she's the one unwrapping it. obsessed.

The converse operation — the opposite direction, the backwards dance — is sq autocrypt encode-sender. so if decode is unwrapping, that one is the wrapping. they're a matched set, no cap 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -o, --output=FILE — writes to FILE. and if you just… don't give her a FILE? she writes to stdout instead. queen of flexibility 👑
• -B, --binary — emits binary data. as in, not armored, not text-y, just raw binary vibes 🔥
• -h, --help — prints help information. the classic. the beloved. she's always there for you 🫶
• [FILE] — reads from FILE. and if you omit it? stdin, babes. she'll read from stdin. she's not picky 💜

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Extract all the certificates from a mail 🍓 — like, every single one, no crumbs left behind:

sq autocrypt decode autocrypt.eml

that's it. one line. ate and left no crumbs 😭✨

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💀 SEE ALSO 💀

For the full documentation, go here bestie: <https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sq/>

and now the friend group, all of them, alphabetically-ish, no one left out (not me forgetting anybody 🙈):

sq(1) sq-armor(1) sq-autocrypt(1) sq-autocrypt-encode-sender(1) sq-certify(1) sq-dearmor(1) sq-decrypt(1) sq-encrypt(1) sq-inspect(1) sq-key(1) sq-keyring(1) sq-keyserver(1) sq-packet(1) sq-revoke(1) sq-sign(1) sq-verify(1) sq-wkd(1)

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and that's the page!! 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

this was sq 0.26.0, dated July 2022 — so yeah, she's a little vintage, but vintage is a lifestyle and she still slays. byeee, go decode something 🫶💅