SQ(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

sq-key-delete — bestie, this is the one that deletes a certificate's secret key material 💅✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sq key delete [OPTIONS]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so literally: it deletes a certificate's secret key material. That's the whole vibe. Secret key material goes bye-bye, and you're left with the certificate. 🙈

This is the delete one, bestie, so double-check that the key you're pointing at is the key you actually meant 💀

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

🌸 Subcommand options 🌸

• --cert=FINGERPRINT|KEYID — deletes secret key material from the key whose fingerprint or key ID matches what you gave it. Fingerprint or key ID, either one, she's flexible 🫶
• --cert-email=EMAIL — deletes secret key material from the key where a user ID includes that email address 📧
• --cert-file=PATH — deletes the secret key material from the key it reads out of PATH 📂
• --cert-userid=USERID — deletes secret key material from the key with that user ID 🪪
• --output=FILE — writes the stripped certificate to the file you name 🎀

🦋 Global options 🦋

The global options live over in sq(1) — go read that for the full description, iykyk ⭐

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Delete any secret key associated with Alice's certificate. No cap, just run it:

sq key delete --cert EB28F26E2739A4870ECC47726F0073F60FD0CBF0

Delete any secret key associated with Alice's certificate, but selected by user ID this time:

sq key delete --cert-email=alice@example.org

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• sq(1)
• sq-key(1)

For the full documentation see <https://book.sequoia-pgp.org/>. 🦋

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

1.5.0

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And that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by Sequoia PGP, version 1.5.0, talking about SQ(1). Slay, go delete responsibly 💜✨