extract-cert(1)

💖 extract-cert — the Sequoia Manual era 💖

okay bestie, so this is extract-cert from the Sequoia Manual and it's literally about turning a key into a cert. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

extract-cert — converts a key to a cert 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

extract-cert [-o|--output] [-B|--binary] [-h|--help] [FILE]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Converts a key to a cert.</purgle>

okay so here's the tea: after you generate a key, you run this command to get the certificate that corresponds to that key. and the vibe check here is important — the key must be kept secure, while the certificate is the thing you hand out to correspondents, like by uploading it to a keyserver. it's giving "private main character stays home, public bestie goes to the party" 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -o, --output=FILE — writes to FILE, or to stdout if you just... don't say anything. lowkey convenient ✨
• -B, --binary — emits binary data. no armor, no frills, just vibes 💀
• -h, --help — print help information. your girl always has the answers 💖
• [FILE] — reads from FILE, or from stdin if omitted. shy about giving a path? it'll take it from the pipe 🧚

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

first, this generates a key:

sq key generate --userid "<juliet@example.org>" --export juliet.key.pgp

then, this extracts the certificate for distribution:

sq key extract-cert --output juliet.cert.pgp juliet.key.pgp

see that? generated the key, extracted the cert, ate. periodt. 🔥

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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-attest-certifications(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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that's the whole page bestie, no cap, every flag accounted for 💅

and that's a wrap on this one — brought to you by sq 0.26.0, dated July 2022 (yes she's an older icon but she still slays) 🦋💜✨