attest-certifications(1)

💖 attest-certifications(1) — a Sequoia Manual moment

okay bestie, welcome to attest-certifications 💅 this is a page from the Sequoia Manual, and yes we are about to make certificate attestation make sense. buckle up 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

attest-certifications — Attests to third-party certifications 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

attest-certifications [--none] [--all] [-o|--output] [-B|--binary]
[-h|--help] [KEY]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Attests to third-party certifications allowing for their distribution

okay so here's the lore 📖 — to prevent certificate flooding attacks, modern key servers straight up refuse to let third-party certifications on certificates be distributed all willy-nilly. no cap.

so to make the key holder the sovereign over the information about what information is distributed with the certificate, the key holder has to explicitly attest to those third-party certifications. it's giving main character energy, but for your own key 👑

and once the attestation has been created, the certificate has to be distributed, e.g. by uploading it to a keyserver. don't forget that part fr fr 📤

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --none — Removes all prior attestations 💀 like, poof, gone, retracted
• --all — Attests to all certifications [default] ✅ this is the default, so if you say nothing you get everything
• -o, --output=FILE — Writes to FILE, or to stdout if omitted 🖨️
• -B, --binary — Emits binary data 🔢
• -h, --help — Print help information 🙋
• [KEY] — Changes attestations on KEY 🔑

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Attest to all certifications present on the key — okay periodt:

sq key attest-certifications juliet.pgp

Retract prior attestations on the key — the take-backsies option 🙈:

sq key attest-certifications --none juliet.pgp

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

For the full documentation see <https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sq/>. 🌐

sq(1) sq-armor(1) sq-autocrypt(1) sq-certify(1) sq-dearmor(1) sq-decrypt(1) sq-encrypt(1) sq-inspect(1) sq-key(1) sq-key-adopt(1) sq-key-extract-cert(1) sq-key-generate(1) sq-key-password(1) sq-key-userid(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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sq 0.26.0 · July 2022 🗓️

and that's the whole page bestie 💖 this was attest-certifications(1) from the Sequoia Manual, version sq 0.26.0, dated July 2022. go attest something iconic 🫶✨