encode-sender(1)

encode-sender(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Sequoia Manual ✨ this one's called encode-sender and it's lowkey the glow-up your certificate needs before it goes out into the world. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

encode-sender — encodes a certificate into an Autocrypt header 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

encode-sender [-o|--output] [--email] [--prefer-encrypt] [-h|--help]
[FILE]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically: encode-sender encodes a certificate into an Autocrypt header. that's the whole vibe ✨

Here's the tea 🍓 — a certificate can be encoded and tucked right into a header of an email message. This command does the encoding, and while it's at it, it adds the sender's email address (and bestie, that address has to match the one used in the "From" header, no cap, they gotta be twins 👯) plus the sender's "prefer-encrypt" state (go read the Autocrypt spec if you want the full lore, it's all in there 📖).

And if you ever need to undo it? The converse operation is "sq autocrypt decode" — the un-glow-up, the reverse-uno, the ✨ decodesender ✨ iykyk.

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -o, --output=FILE — writes to FILE, or just yeets it to stdout if you leave it out 🎀
• --email=ADDRESS — sets the address [default: primary userid] 💌
• --prefer-encrypt=PREFER-ENCRYPT — sets the prefer-encrypt attribute [default: nopreference] [possible values: nopreference, mutual] 🔥
• -h, --help — print help information, the classic "what does this do again" button 🙈
• [FILE] — reads from FILE, or from stdin if you omit it 🌈

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👑 EXAMPLES 👑

encodes a certificate ✨

sq autocrypt encode-sender juliet.pgp

encodes a certificate with an explicit sender address 💌

sq autocrypt encode-sender --email juliet@example.org juliet.pgp

encodes a certificate while indicating the willingness to encrypt 🔐

sq autocrypt encode-sender --prefer-encrypt mutual juliet.pgp

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

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

also the whole squad, in no particular order but very much iconic:

sq(1) sq-armor(1) sq-autocrypt(1) sq-autocrypt-decode(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 whole page, bestie 💖 this was sq 0.26.0, born July 2022, and yeah she's still serving. mwah, bye 👑✨