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.TH PGP 1 "PGPGPG Version 0.13"
.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.SH NAME
pgpgpg \- wrapper around Gnu Privacy Guard that takes Pretty Good Privacy 
command line options
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pgpgpg \fR[\fIoptions\fR] \fIpgpfile
.PP
.B pgpgpg \-e \fR[\fIoptions\fR] \fIfile user\fR .\|.\|.
.PP
.SH DESCRIPTION

.B PGPGPG
is a wrapper that allows calls to 
.B GnuPG 
(Gnu Privacy Guard) using the command line options of .PGP
(Pretty Good Privacy). \fBPGP\fR and \fBGnuPG\fR are encryption programs
with high security encryption engines.  However,  \fBPGP\fR is available
without a fee but is not really free software.  \fBGnuPG\fR  on  the  
other  hand  is  really free software and has additionally features but 
with a different command line syntax than PGP.
     
The  goal  of \fBpgpgpg\fR is to plug in a command line syntax in front of
\fBGnuPG\fR equal to \fBPGP\fR 2.6.

.SH OPTIONS
The following options are supported by \fBpgpgpg\fR notice that long
options do not use the usual GNU syntax (--) but, instead are of the
form \fB+option[=value]\fR.
.PP
.IP "-e"
Encrypt a plaintext file.
.IP "-d, -p"
Decrypt a plaintext file.
.IP "-s"
Sign a plaintext file.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -s file [-u userid]
.IP "-sb" 
Create a separate signature certificate (a \fB.sig\fR file) for a given
file.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -sb file [-u userid]
.IP "-c" 
Use conventional cryptography when encrypting.
.IP "-o"
Output to the file specified. Should only be used for encryption,
decryption and signature operations (not for key management).
.IP "-a, +armor"
ASCII armor the output file.
.IP "-u, +myname"
Select the userid to use for some operations.
.IP "-kg"
Generate a unique public/secret pair.
.IP "-ka"
Add a public or secret key to your key ring.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -ka keyfile [keyring]
.IP "-kx"
Extract a copy from your public or secret keyring.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -kx[a] userid keyfile [keyring]
.IP "-kv"
View the contents of your keyring.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -kv[v] [userid] [keyring]
.IP "-kvc"
View a key fingerprint.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -kvc [userid] [keyring]
.IP "-kr"
Remove a key from your keyring.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -kr userid  [keyring]
.IP "-kd"
If acting on your secret key, permanently revoke a key and issue 
a compromise certificate.
If acting on a public key, disable or reenable a key.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -kd userid 
.IP "-ke"
Edit trust parameters for a public key or edit the
pass phrase or add a userid to a secret key.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -ke userid [keyring]
.IP "-kc"
View the contents and check the certifying signatures of your public key ring.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -kc [userid] [keyring]
.IP "-ks"
Sign and certify someone's public key.
.br
.B        pgpgpg -ks userid [-u userid] [keyring]

.PP
The following options are ignored or unsupported: 
\fB++armorlines\fR, \fB+autosign\fR, \fB+bakring\fR, 
\fB+interactive\fR, \fB+keepbinary\fR, \fB+language\fR,
\fB+legal_kludge\fR, \fB+nomanual\fR, \fB+pager\fR, \fB+randseed\fR,
\fB+tmp\fR and \fB+tzfix\fR.
     
.SH BUGS
.B PGPGPG
does not currently provide an online help (\fB-h\fR or \fB-?\fR)
and will not show a summary of commands, as PGP does, when typing:
.br
.B        pgp -k

The following options are not documented (yet):
\fB+batchmode\fR, \fB+cert_depth\fR, \fB+charset\fR, \fB+encrypttoself\fR, 
\fB+force\fR, \fB+clearsig\fR, \fB+comment\fR, \fB+completes_needed\fR, 
\fB+compress\fR, \fB+marginals_needed\fR, \fB+pubring\fR, \fB+secring\fR,
\fB+textmode\fR and \fB+verbose\fR.

.SH AUTHORS

\fBPGP\fR was originally written by Philip R. Zimmermann. 
\fBPGPGPG\fR was written by Michael Roth.

This manpage was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino for the Debian
distribution (but may be used by others) by glancing at \fBPGP\fR's
manpage and the source code from \fBPGPGPG\fR (pgpopts.c)