PGPE(1) User Manual PGPE(1)NAMEpgpe - Encrypts and signs messages
SYNOPSISpgpe-r <recipient> [-s [-u <myid>]] [-aftz]
[-o <outfile>] file ...
pgpe-c [-aftz] [-o outfile] file ...
DESCRIPTIONpgpe encrypts and signs files using public key cryptography, or
encrypts files using conventional cryptography.
OPTIONS
All configuration options can be controlled from the command line. See
pgp.cfg(5) for a complete list and how to specify them.
-a, --armor
Turn on "ASCII Armoring." This outputs a text-only version of
your encrypted text. This makes the result safe for mailing,
but about 30% larger.
-c Conventional encrypting mode. This uses IDEA to encrypt your
message. As IDEA is a symmetric cipher, no public-key related
arguments (-r, -s and -u) are accepted with this argument.
-f Stream mode. Accepts input on stdin and places output on std‐
out. If no files are specified as arguments, pgp executes in
this mode by default.
-o outfile
Specifies that output should go to outfile. If not specified,
output goes to the default filename. The default filename for
each input file is the input filename with ".pgp" appended,
unless ASCII Armoring is turned on, in which case it is ".asc".
It is an error to specify multiple input files with this option.
-s Sign the document as well as encrypting it. If you wish to sign
only, use pgps(1). This will use your default signing key, or
the ID of the key specified with the -u option.
-t Turns on text mode. This causes PGP to convert your input mes‐
sage to a platform-independent form. It is primarily for use
when moving files from one operating system to another.
-u Sets the ID of the key used for signing. This may be a user ID
(such as foo@bar.baz.com) or a Key ID (such as 0x12345678).
Specifying this switch without specifying -s (sign) does noth‐
ing.
-z Batch mode. See pgp-integration(7) for a discussion of inte‐
grating pgp support into your application.
EXAMPLEpgpe-r foo@bar.baz.com -sat document.txt
Signs and encrypts the file document.txt with ASCII Armoring and
text mode on to foo@bar.baz.com's key. The resultant file will
be document.txt.asc.
FILES
~/.pgp/pgp.cfg
User-specific configuration file. In previous releases, this
file was called config.txt. See pgp.cfg(5) for further details.
BUGS
See pgp5(1).
SEE ALSOpgp5(1), pgpv(1), pgps(1), pgpk(1), pgp.cfg(5),
pgp-integration(7), http://www.pgp.com (US versions) and
http://www.pgpi.com (International versions)
PGP JULY 1997 (v5.0) PGPE(1)