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This is the `The GNU Privacy Guard Manual' (version 2.1.1, December
2014).

   (C) 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(C) 2013, 2014 Werner Koch.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
     published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the
     License, or (at your option) any later version. The text of the
     license can be found in the section entitled "Copying".

INFO-DIR-SECTION GNU Utilities
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* gpg2: (gnupg).           OpenPGP encryption and signing tool.
* gpgsm: (gnupg).          S/MIME encryption and signing tool.
* gpg-agent: (gnupg).      The secret key daemon.
* dirmngr: (gnupg).        X.509 CRL and OCSP server.
* dirmngr-client: (gnupg). X.509 CRL and OCSP client.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY


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Using the GNU Privacy Guard
***************************

This is the `The GNU Privacy Guard Manual' (version 2.1.1, December
2014).

   (C) 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(C) 2013, 2014 Werner Koch.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
     published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the
     License, or (at your option) any later version. The text of the
     license can be found in the section entitled "Copying".

   This manual documents how to use the GNU Privacy Guard system as
well as the administration and the architecture.

* Menu:

* Installation::        A short installation guide.

* Invoking GPG-AGENT::  How to launch the secret key daemon.

* Invoking DIRMNGR::    How to launch the CRL and OCSP daemon.
* Invoking GPG::        Using the OpenPGP protocol.
* Invoking GPGSM::      Using the S/MIME protocol.
* Invoking SCDAEMON::   How to handle Smartcards.
* Specify a User ID::   How to Specify a User Id.

* Helper Tools::        Description of small helper tools

* Howtos::              How to do certain things.
* System Notes::        Notes pertaining to certain OSes.
* Debugging::           How to solve problems

* Copying::             GNU General Public License says
                        how you can copy and share GnuPG
* Contributors::        People who have contributed to GnuPG.

* Glossary::            Short description of terms used.
* Option Index::        Index to command line options.
* Index::	        Index of concepts and symbol names.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Installation,  Next: Invoking GPG-AGENT,  Prev: Top,  Up: Top

1 A short installation guide.
*****************************

Unfortunately the installation guide has not been finished in time.
Instead of delaying the release of GnuPG 2.0 even further, I decided to
release without that guide.  The chapter on gpg-agent and gpgsm do
include brief information on how to set up the whole thing.  Please
watch the GnuPG website for updates of the documentation.  In the
meantime you may search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the
gnupg-users mailing listsfor advise on how to solve problems or how to
get that whole thing up and running.

   ** Building the software

   Building the software is decribed in the file `INSTALL'.  Given that
you are already reading this documentation we can only give some extra
hints

   To comply with the rules on GNU systems you should have build time
configured `gnupg' using:

     ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var

   This is to make sure that system wide configuration files are
searched in the directory `/etc/gnupg' and variable data below `/var';
the default would be to also install them below `/usr/local' where the
binaries get installed.  If you selected to use the `--prefix=/' you
obviously don't need those option as they are the default then.

   ** Notes on setting a root CA key to trusted

   X.509 is based on a hierarchical key infrastructure.  At the root of
the tree a trusted anchor (root certificate) is required.  There are
usually no other means of verifying whether this root certificate is
trustworthy than looking it up in a list. GnuPG uses a file
(`trustlist.txt') to keep track of all root certificates it knows
about.  There are 3 ways to get certificates into this list:

   * Use the list which comes with GnuPG. However this list only
     contains a few root certificates.  Most installations will need
     more.

   * Let `gpgsm' ask you whether you want to insert a new root
     certificate.  This feature is enabled by default; you may disable
     it using the option `no-allow-mark-trusted' into `gpg-agent.conf'.

   * Manually maintain the list of trusted root certificates. For a
     multi user installation this can be done once for all users on a
     machine.  Specific changes on a per-user base are also possible.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Invoking GPG-AGENT,  Next: Invoking DIRMNGR,  Prev: Installation,  Up: Top

2 Invoking GPG-AGENT
********************

`gpg-agent' is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently
from any protocol.  It is used as a backend for `gpg' and `gpgsm' as
well as for a couple of other utilities.

   The agent is automatically started on demand by `gpg', `gpgsm',
`gpgconf', or `gpg-connect-agent'.  Thus there is no reason to start it
manually.  In case you want to use the included Secure Shell Agent you
may start the agent using:

     gpg-connect-agent /bye

You should always add the following lines to your `.bashrc' or whatever
initialization file is used for all shell invocations:

     GPG_TTY=$(tty)
     export GPG_TTY

It is important that this environment variable always reflects the
output of the `tty' command.  For W32 systems this option is not
required.

   Please make sure that a proper pinentry program has been installed
under the default filename (which is system dependant) or use the
option `pinentry-program' to specify the full name of that program.  It
is often useful to install a symbolic link from the actual used
pinentry (e.g. `/usr/bin/pinentry-gtk') to the expected one (e.g.
`/usr/bin/pinentry').

*Note Option Index::,for an index to `GPG-AGENT''s commands and options.

* Menu:

* Agent Commands::      List of all commands.
* Agent Options::       List of all options.
* Agent Configuration:: Configuration files.
* Agent Signals::       Use of some signals.
* Agent Examples::      Some usage examples.
* Agent Protocol::      The protocol the agent uses.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent Commands,  Next: Agent Options,  Up: Invoking GPG-AGENT

2.1 Commands
============

Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that
only one command is allowed.

`--version'
     Print the program version and licensing information.  Note that
     you cannot abbreviate this command.

`--help'
`-h'
     Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line
     options.  Note that you cannot abbreviate this command.

`--dump-options'
     Print a list of all available options and commands.  Note that you
     cannot abbreviate this command.

`--server'
     Run in server mode and wait for commands on the `stdin'.  The
     default mode is to create a socket and listen for commands there.

`--daemon [COMMAND LINE]'
     Start the gpg-agent as a daemon; that is, detach it from the
     console and run it in the background.  Yet another way is creating
     a new process as a child of gpg-agent: `gpg-agent --daemon
     /bin/sh'.  This way you get a new shell with the environment setup
     properly; if you exit from this shell, gpg-agent terminates as
     well.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent Options,  Next: Agent Configuration,  Prev: Agent Commands,  Up: Invoking GPG-AGENT

2.2 Option Summary
==================

`--options FILE'
     Reads configuration from FILE instead of from the default per-user
     configuration file.  The default configuration file is named
     `gpg-agent.conf' and expected in the `.gnupg' directory directly
     below the home directory of the user.

`--homedir DIR'
     Set the name of the home directory to DIR. If this option is not
     used, the home directory defaults to `~/.gnupg'.  It is only
     recognized when given on the command line.  It also overrides any
     home directory stated through the environment variable `GNUPGHOME'
     or (on Windows systems) by means of the Registry entry
     HKCU\SOFTWARE\GNU\GNUPG:HOMEDIR.

     On Windows systems it is possible to install GnuPG as a portable
     application.  In this case only this command line option is
     considered, all other ways to set a home directory are ignored.

     To install GnuPG as a portable application under Windows, create an
     empty file name `gpgconf.ctl' in the same directory as the tool
     `gpgconf.exe'.  The root of the installation is than that
     directory; or, if `gpgconf.exe' has been installed directly below
     a directory named `bin', its parent directory.  You also need to
     make sure that the following directories exist and are writable:
     `ROOT/home' for the GnuPG home and `ROOT/var/cache/gnupg' for
     internal cache files.

`-v'

`--verbose'
     Outputs additional information while running.  You can increase
     the verbosity by giving several verbose commands to `gpgsm', such
     as `-vv'.

`-q'

`--quiet'
     Try to be as quiet as possible.

`--batch'
     Don't invoke a pinentry or do any other thing requiring human
     interaction.

`--faked-system-time EPOCH'
     This option is only useful for testing; it sets the system time
     back or forth to EPOCH which is the number of seconds elapsed
     since the year 1970.

`--debug-level LEVEL'
     Select the debug level for investigating problems. LEVEL may be a
     numeric value or a keyword:

    `none'
          No debugging at all.  A value of less than 1 may be used
          instead of the keyword.

    `basic'
          Some basic debug messages.  A value between 1 and 2 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `advanced'
          More verbose debug messages.  A value between 3 and 5 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `expert'
          Even more detailed messages.  A value between 6 and 8 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `guru'
          All of the debug messages you can get. A value greater than 8
          may be used instead of the keyword.  The creation of hash
          tracing files is only enabled if the keyword is used.

     How these messages are mapped to the actual debugging flags is not
     specified and may change with newer releases of this program. They
     are however carefully selected to best aid in debugging.

`--debug FLAGS'
     This option is only useful for debugging and the behaviour may
     change at any time without notice.  FLAGS are bit encoded and may
     be given in usual C-Syntax. The currently defined bits are:

    `0  (1)'
          X.509 or OpenPGP protocol related data

    `1  (2)'
          values of big number integers

    `2  (4)'
          low level crypto operations

    `5  (32)'
          memory allocation

    `6  (64)'
          caching

    `7  (128)'
          show memory statistics.

    `9  (512)'
          write hashed data to files named `dbgmd-000*'

    `10 (1024)'
          trace Assuan protocol

    `12 (4096)'
          bypass all certificate validation

`--debug-all'
     Same as `--debug=0xffffffff'

`--debug-wait N'
     When running in server mode, wait N seconds before entering the
     actual processing loop and print the pid.  This gives time to
     attach a debugger.

`--debug-quick-random'
     This option inhibits the use the very secure random quality level
     (Libgcrypt’s `GCRY_VERY_STRONG_RANDOM') and degrades all request
     down to standard random quality.  It is only used for testing and
     shall not be used for any production quality keys.  This option is
     only effective when given on the command line.

`--no-detach'
     Don't detach the process from the console.  This is mainly useful
     for debugging.

`-s'
`--sh'
`-c'
`--csh'
     Format the info output in daemon mode for use with the standard
     Bourne shell or the C-shell respectively.  The default is to guess
     it based on the environment variable `SHELL' which is correct in
     almost all cases.

`--no-grab'
     Tell the pinentry not to grab the keyboard and mouse.  This option
     should in general not be used to avoid X-sniffing attacks.

`--log-file FILE'
     Append all logging output to FILE.  This is very helpful in seeing
     what the agent actually does.  If neither a log file nor a log file
     descriptor has been set on a Windows platform, the Registry entry
     `HKCU\Software\GNU\GnuPG:DefaultLogFile', if set, is used to
     specify the logging output.

`--no-allow-mark-trusted'
     Do not allow clients to mark keys as trusted, i.e. put them into
     the `trustlist.txt' file.  This makes it harder for users to
     inadvertently accept Root-CA keys.

`--allow-preset-passphrase'
     This option allows the use of `gpg-preset-passphrase' to seed the
     internal cache of `gpg-agent' with passphrases.

`--allow-loopback-pinentry'
     Allow clients to use the loopback pinentry features; see the option
     `pinentry-mode' for details.

`--ignore-cache-for-signing'
     This option will let `gpg-agent' bypass the passphrase cache for
     all signing operation.  Note that there is also a per-session
     option to control this behaviour but this command line option
     takes precedence.

`--default-cache-ttl N'
     Set the time a cache entry is valid to N seconds.  The default is
     600 seconds.

`--default-cache-ttl-ssh N'
     Set the time a cache entry used for SSH keys is valid to N
     seconds.  The default is 1800 seconds.

`--max-cache-ttl N'
     Set the maximum time a cache entry is valid to N seconds.  After
     this time a cache entry will be expired even if it has been
     accessed recently or has been set using `gpg-preset-passphrase'.
     The default is 2 hours (7200 seconds).

`--max-cache-ttl-ssh N'
     Set the maximum time a cache entry used for SSH keys is valid to N
     seconds.  After this time a cache entry will be expired even if it
     has been accessed recently or has been set using
     `gpg-preset-passphrase'.  The default is 2 hours (7200 seconds).

`--enforce-passphrase-constraints'
     Enforce the passphrase constraints by not allowing the user to
     bypass them using the "Take it anyway" button.

`--min-passphrase-len N'
     Set the minimal length of a passphrase.  When entering a new
     passphrase shorter than this value a warning will be displayed.
     Defaults to 8.

`--min-passphrase-nonalpha N'
     Set the minimal number of digits or special characters required in
     a passphrase.  When entering a new passphrase with less than this
     number of digits or special characters a warning will be
     displayed.  Defaults to 1.

`--check-passphrase-pattern FILE'
     Check the passphrase against the pattern given in FILE.  When
     entering a new passphrase matching one of these pattern a warning
     will be displayed. FILE should be an absolute filename.  The
     default is not to use any pattern file.

     Security note: It is known that checking a passphrase against a
     list of pattern or even against a complete dictionary is not very
     effective to enforce good passphrases.  Users will soon figure up
     ways to bypass such a policy.  A better policy is to educate users
     on good security behavior and optionally to run a passphrase
     cracker regularly on all users passphrases to catch the very
     simple ones.

`--max-passphrase-days N'
     Ask the user to change the passphrase if N days have passed since
     the last change.  With `--enforce-passphrase-constraints' set the
     user may not bypass this check.

`--enable-passphrase-history'
     This option does nothing yet.

`--pinentry-program FILENAME'
     Use program FILENAME as the PIN entry.  The default is installation
     dependent.

`--pinentry-touch-file FILENAME'
     By default the filename of the socket gpg-agent is listening for
     requests is passed to Pinentry, so that it can touch that file
     before exiting (it does this only in curses mode).  This option
     changes the file passed to Pinentry to FILENAME.  The special name
     `/dev/null' may be used to completely disable this feature.  Note
     that Pinentry will not create that file, it will only change the
     modification and access time.

`--scdaemon-program FILENAME'
     Use program FILENAME as the Smartcard daemon.  The default is
     installation dependent and can be shown with the `gpgconf' command.

`--disable-scdaemon'
     Do not make use of the scdaemon tool.  This option has the effect
     of disabling the ability to do smartcard operations.  Note, that
     enabling this option at runtime does not kill an already forked
     scdaemon.

`--disable-check-own-socket'
     `gpg-agent' employs a periodic self-test to detect a stolen
     socket.  This usually means a second instance of `gpg-agent' has
     taken over the socket and `gpg-agent' will then terminate itself.
     This option may be used to disable this self-test for debugging
     purposes.

`--use-standard-socket'
`--no-use-standard-socket'
     Since GnuPG 2.1 the standard socket is always used.  These options
     have no more effect.

`--display STRING'
`--ttyname STRING'
`--ttytype STRING'
`--lc-ctype STRING'
`--lc-messages STRING'
`--xauthority STRING'
     These options are used with the server mode to pass localization
     information.

`--keep-tty'
`--keep-display'
     Ignore requests to change the current `tty' or X window system's
     `DISPLAY' variable respectively.  This is useful to lock the
     pinentry to pop up at the `tty' or display you started the agent.

`--extra-socket NAME'
     Also listen on native gpg-agent connections on the given socket.
     The intended use for this extra socket is to setup a Unix domain
     socket forwarding from a remote machine to this socket on the
     local machine.  A `gpg' running on the remote machine may then
     connect to the local gpg-agent and use its private keys.  This
     allows to decrypt or sign data on a remote machine without
     exposing the private keys to the remote machine.

`--enable-ssh-support'
     Enable the OpenSSH Agent protocol.

     In this mode of operation, the agent does not only implement the
     gpg-agent protocol, but also the agent protocol used by OpenSSH
     (through a separate socket).  Consequently, it should be possible
     to use the gpg-agent as a drop-in replacement for the well known
     ssh-agent.

     SSH Keys, which are to be used through the agent, need to be added
     to the gpg-agent initially through the ssh-add utility.  When a
     key is added, ssh-add will ask for the password of the provided
     key file and send the unprotected key material to the agent; this
     causes the gpg-agent to ask for a passphrase, which is to be used
     for encrypting the newly received key and storing it in a
     gpg-agent specific directory.

     Once a key has been added to the gpg-agent this way, the gpg-agent
     will be ready to use the key.

     Note: in case the gpg-agent receives a signature request, the user
     might need to be prompted for a passphrase, which is necessary for
     decrypting the stored key.  Since the ssh-agent protocol does not
     contain a mechanism for telling the agent on which
     display/terminal it is running, gpg-agent's ssh-support will use
     the TTY or X display where gpg-agent has been started.  To switch
     this display to the current one, the following command may be used:

          gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye

     Although all GnuPG components try to start the gpg-agent as
     needed, this is not possible for the ssh support because ssh does
     not know about it.  Thus if no GnuPG tool which accesses the agent
     has been run, there is no guarantee that ssh is abale to use
     gpg-agent for authentication.  To fix this you may start gpg-agent
     if needed using this simple command:

          gpg-connect-agent /bye

     Adding the `--verbose' shows the progress of starting the agent.


   All the long options may also be given in the configuration file
after stripping off the two leading dashes.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent Configuration,  Next: Agent Signals,  Prev: Agent Options,  Up: Invoking GPG-AGENT

2.3 Configuration
=================

There are a few configuration files needed for the operation of the
agent. By default they may all be found in the current home directory
(*note option --homedir::).

`gpg-agent.conf'
     This is the standard configuration file read by `gpg-agent' on
     startup.  It may contain any valid long option; the leading   two
     dashes may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated.
     This file is also read after a `SIGHUP' however only a few
     options will actually have an effect.  This default name may be
     changed on the command line (*note option --options::).    You
     should backup this file.

`trustlist.txt'
     This is the list of trusted keys.  You should backup this file.

     Comment lines, indicated by a leading hash mark, as well as empty
     lines are ignored.  To mark a key as trusted you need to enter its
      fingerprint followed by a space and a capital letter `S'.  Colons
      may optionally be used to separate the bytes of a fingerprint;
     this   allows to cut and paste the fingerprint from a key listing
     output.  If   the line is prefixed with a `!' the key is
     explicitly marked as   not trusted.

     Here is an example where two keys are marked as ultimately trusted
      and one as not trusted:

            # CN=Wurzel ZS 3,O=Intevation GmbH,C=DE
            A6935DD34EF3087973C706FC311AA2CCF733765B S

            # CN=PCA-1-Verwaltung-02/O=PKI-1-Verwaltung/C=DE
            DC:BD:69:25:48:BD:BB:7E:31:6E:BB:80:D3:00:80:35:D4:F8:A6:CD S

            # CN=Root-CA/O=Schlapphuete/L=Pullach/C=DE
            !14:56:98:D3:FE:9C:CA:5A:31:6E:BC:81:D3:11:4E:00:90:A3:44:C2 S


     Before entering a key into this file, you need to ensure its
     authenticity.  How to do this depends on your organisation; your
     administrator might have already entered those keys which are
     deemed trustworthy enough into this file.  Places where to look
     for the fingerprint of a root certificate are letters received
     from the CA or the website of the CA (after making 100% sure that
     this is indeed the website of that CA).  You may want to consider
     disallowing interactive updates of this file by using the *Note
     option --no-allow-mark-trusted::.  It might even be advisable to
     change the permissions to read-only so that this file can't be
     changed inadvertently.

     As a special feature a line `include-default' will include a global
     list of trusted certificates (e.g. `/etc/gnupg/trustlist.txt').
     This global list is also used if the local list is not available.

     It is possible to add further flags after the `S' for use by the
     caller:

    `relax'
          Relax checking of some root certificate requirements.  As of
          now this flag allows the use of root certificates with a
          missing basicConstraints attribute (despite that it is a MUST
          for CA certificates) and disables CRL checking for the root
          certificate.

    `cm'
          If validation of a certificate finally issued by a CA with
          this flag set fails, try again using the chain validation
          model.


`sshcontrol'
     This file is used when support for the secure shell agent protocol
     has been enabled (*note option --enable-ssh-support::). Only keys
     present in this file are used in the SSH protocol.  You should
     backup this file.

     The `ssh-add' tool may be used to add new entries to this file;
     you may also add them manually.  Comment lines, indicated by a
     leading hash mark, as well as empty lines are ignored.  An entry
     starts with optional whitespace, followed by the keygrip of the
     key given as 40 hex digits, optionally followed by the caching TTL
     in seconds and another optional field for arbitrary flags.  A
     non-zero TTL overrides the global default as set by
     `--default-cache-ttl-ssh'.

     The only flag support is `confirm'.  If this flag is found for a
     key, each use of the key will pop up a pinentry to confirm the use
     of that key.  The flag is automatically set if a new key was
     loaded into `gpg-agent' using the option `-c' of the `ssh-add'
     command.

     The keygrip may be prefixed with a `!' to disable an entry entry.

     The following example lists exactly one key.  Note that keys
     available through a OpenPGP smartcard in the active smartcard
     reader are implicitly added to this list; i.e. there is no need to
     list them.

                 # Key added on: 2011-07-20 20:38:46
                 # Fingerprint:  5e:8d:c4:ad:e7:af:6e:27:8a:d6:13:e4:79:ad:0b:81
                 34B62F25E277CF13D3C6BCEBFD3F85D08F0A864B 0 confirm

`private-keys-v1.d/'
     This is the directory where gpg-agent stores the private keys.
     Each   key is stored in a file with the name made up of the
     keygrip and the   suffix `key'.  You should backup all files in
     this directory   and take great care to keep this backup closed
     away.


   Note that on larger installations, it is useful to put predefined
files into the directory `/etc/skel/.gnupg/' so that newly created
users start up with a working configuration.  For existing users the a
small helper script is provided to create these files (*note
addgnupghome::).


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent Signals,  Next: Agent Examples,  Prev: Agent Configuration,  Up: Invoking GPG-AGENT

2.4 Use of some signals.
========================

A running `gpg-agent' may be controlled by signals, i.e. using the
`kill' command to send a signal to the process.

   Here is a list of supported signals:

`SIGHUP'
     This signal flushes all cached passphrases and if the program has
     been started with a configuration file, the configuration file is
     read again.  Only certain options are honored: `quiet', `verbose',
     `debug', `debug-all', `debug-level', `no-grab',
     `pinentry-program', `default-cache-ttl', `max-cache-ttl',
     `ignore-cache-for-signing', `no-allow-mark-trusted',
     `disable-scdaemon', and `disable-check-own-socket'.
     `scdaemon-program' is also supported but due to the current
     implementation, which calls the scdaemon only once, it is not of
     much use unless you manually kill the scdaemon.

`SIGTERM'
     Shuts down the process but waits until all current requests are
     fulfilled.  If the process has received 3 of these signals and
     requests are still pending, a shutdown is forced.

`SIGINT'
     Shuts down the process immediately.

`SIGUSR1'
     Dump internal information to the log file.

`SIGUSR2'
     This signal is used for internal purposes.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent Examples,  Next: Agent Protocol,  Prev: Agent Signals,  Up: Invoking GPG-AGENT

2.5 Examples
============

It is important to set the GPG_TTY environment variable in your login
shell, for example in the `~/.bashrc' init script:

       export GPG_TTY=$(tty)

   If you enabled the Ssh Agent Support, you also need to tell ssh about
it by adding this to your init script:

     unset SSH_AGENT_PID
     if [ "${gnupg_SSH_AUTH_SOCK_by:-0}" -ne $$ ]; then
       export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="${HOME}/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh"
     fi


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent Protocol,  Prev: Agent Examples,  Up: Invoking GPG-AGENT

2.6 Agent's Assuan Protocol
===========================

Note: this section does only document the protocol, which is used by
GnuPG components; it does not deal with the ssh-agent protocol.

   The `gpg-agent' daemon is started on demand by the GnuPG components.

   To identify a key we use a thing called keygrip which is the SHA-1
hash of an canonical encoded S-Expression of the public key as used in
Libgcrypt.  For the purpose of this interface the keygrip is given as a
hex string.  The advantage of using this and not the hash of a
certificate is that it will be possible to use the same keypair for
different protocols, thereby saving space on the token used to keep the
secret keys.

   The `gpg-agent' may send status messages during a command or when
returning from a command to inform a client about the progress or
result of an operation.  For example, the INQUIRE_MAXLEN status message
may be sent during a server inquire to inform the client of the maximum
usable length of the inquired data (which should not be exceeded).

* Menu:

* Agent PKDECRYPT::       Decrypting a session key
* Agent PKSIGN::          Signing a Hash
* Agent GENKEY::          Generating a Key
* Agent IMPORT::          Importing a Secret Key
* Agent EXPORT::          Exporting a Secret Key
* Agent ISTRUSTED::       Importing a Root Certificate
* Agent GET_PASSPHRASE::  Ask for a passphrase
* Agent CLEAR_PASSPHRASE:: Expire a cached passphrase

* Agent PRESET_PASSPHRASE:: Set a passphrase for a keygrip
* Agent GET_CONFIRMATION:: Ask for confirmation
* Agent HAVEKEY::         Check whether a key is available
* Agent LEARN::           Register a smartcard
* Agent PASSWD::          Change a Passphrase
* Agent UPDATESTARTUPTTY:: Change the Standard Display
* Agent GETEVENTCOUNTER:: Get the Event Counters
* Agent GETINFO::         Return information about the process
* Agent OPTION::          Set options for the session


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent PKDECRYPT,  Next: Agent PKSIGN,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.1 Decrypting a session key
------------------------------

The client asks the server to decrypt a session key.  The encrypted
session key should have all information needed to select the
appropriate secret key or to delegate it to a smartcard.

       SETKEY <keyGrip>

   Tell the server about the key to be used for decryption.  If this is
not used, `gpg-agent' may try to figure out the key by trying to
decrypt the message with each key available.

       PKDECRYPT

   The agent checks whether this command is allowed and then does an
INQUIRY to get the ciphertext the client should then send the cipher
text.

         S: INQUIRE CIPHERTEXT
         C: D (xxxxxx
         C: D xxxx)
         C: END

   Please note that the server may send status info lines while reading
the data lines from the client.  The data send is a SPKI like S-Exp with
this structure:

          (enc-val
            (<algo>
              (<param_name1> <mpi>)
      	   ...
              (<param_namen> <mpi>)))

   Where algo is a string with the name of the algorithm; see the
libgcrypt documentation for a list of valid algorithms.  The number and
names of the parameters depend on the algorithm.  The agent does return
an error if there is an inconsistency.

   If the decryption was successful the decrypted data is returned by
means of "D" lines.

   Here is an example session:
        C: PKDECRYPT
        S: INQUIRE CIPHERTEXT
        C: D (enc-val elg (a 349324324)
        C: D    (b 3F444677CA)))
        C: END
        S: # session key follows
        S: S PADDING 0
        S: D (value 1234567890ABCDEF0)
        S: OK descryption successful

   The “PADDING” status line is only send if gpg-agent can tell
what kind of padding is used.  As of now only the value 0 is used to
indicate that the padding has been removed.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent PKSIGN,  Next: Agent GENKEY,  Prev: Agent PKDECRYPT,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.2 Signing a Hash
--------------------

The client ask the agent to sign a given hash value.  A default key
will be chosen if no key has been set.  To set a key a client first
uses:

        SIGKEY <keyGrip>

   This can be used multiple times to create multiple signature, the
list of keys is reset with the next PKSIGN command or a RESET.  The
server test whether the key is a valid key to sign something and
responds with okay.

        SETHASH --hash=<name>|<algo> <hexstring>

   The client can use this command to tell the server about the data
<hexstring> (which usually is a hash) to be signed. <algo> is the
decimal encoded hash algorithm number as used by Libgcrypt.  Either
<algo> or -hash=<name> must be given.  Valid names for <name> are:

`sha1'
     The SHA-1 hash algorithm

`sha256'
     The SHA-256 hash algorithm

`rmd160'
     The RIPE-MD160 hash algorithm

`md5'
     The old and broken MD5 hash algorithm

`tls-md5sha1'
     A combined hash algorithm as used by the TLS protocol.

The actual signing is done using

        PKSIGN <options>

   Options are not yet defined, but my later be used to choose among
different algorithms.  The agent does then some checks, asks for the
passphrase and as a result the server returns the signature as an SPKI
like S-expression in "D" lines:

          (sig-val
            (<algo>
              (<param_name1> <mpi>)
      	   ...
              (<param_namen> <mpi>)))

   The operation is affected by the option

        OPTION use-cache-for-signing=0|1

   The default of `1' uses the cache.  Setting this option to `0' will
lead `gpg-agent' to ignore the passphrase cache.  Note, that there is
also a global command line option for `gpg-agent' to globally disable
the caching.

   Here is an example session:
        C: SIGKEY <keyGrip>
        S: OK key available
        C: SIGKEY <keyGrip>
        S: OK key available
        C: PKSIGN
        S: # I did ask the user whether he really wants to sign
        S: # I did ask the user for the passphrase
        S: INQUIRE HASHVAL
        C: D ABCDEF012345678901234
        C: END
        S: # signature follows
        S: D (sig-val rsa (s 45435453654612121212))
        S: OK


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent GENKEY,  Next: Agent IMPORT,  Prev: Agent PKSIGN,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.3 Generating a Key
----------------------

This is used to create a new keypair and store the secret key inside the
active PSE -- which is in most cases a Soft-PSE.  An not yet defined
option allows to choose the storage location.  To get the secret key out
of the PSE, a special export tool has to be used.

        GENKEY [--no-protection] [--preset] [<cache_nonce>]

   Invokes the key generation process and the server will then inquire
on the generation parameters, like:

        S: INQUIRE KEYPARM
        C: D (genkey (rsa (nbits  1024)))
        C: END

   The format of the key parameters which depends on the algorithm is of
the form:

         (genkey
           (algo
             (parameter_name_1 ....)
               ....
             (parameter_name_n ....)))

   If everything succeeds, the server returns the *public key* in a SPKI
like S-Expression like this:

          (public-key
            (rsa
      	 (n <mpi>)
      	 (e <mpi>)))

   Here is an example session:
        C: GENKEY
        S: INQUIRE KEYPARM
        C: D (genkey (rsa (nbits  1024)))
        C: END
        S: D (public-key
        S: D   (rsa (n 326487324683264) (e 10001)))
        S  OK key created

   The `--no-protection' option may be used to prevent prompting for a
passphrase to protect the secret key while leaving the secret key
unprotected.  The `--preset' option may be used to add the passphrase
to the cache using the default cache parameters.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent IMPORT,  Next: Agent EXPORT,  Prev: Agent GENKEY,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.4 Importing a Secret Key
----------------------------

This operation is not yet supported by GpgAgent.  Specialized tools are
to be used for this.

   There is no actual need because we can expect that secret keys
created by a 3rd party are stored on a smartcard.  If we have generated
the key ourself, we do not need to import it.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent EXPORT,  Next: Agent ISTRUSTED,  Prev: Agent IMPORT,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.5 Export a Secret Key
-------------------------

Not implemented.

   Should be done by an extra tool.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent ISTRUSTED,  Next: Agent GET_PASSPHRASE,  Prev: Agent EXPORT,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.6 Importing a Root Certificate
----------------------------------

Actually we do not import a Root Cert but provide a way to validate any
piece of data by storing its Hash along with a description and an
identifier in the PSE.  Here is the interface description:

         ISTRUSTED <fingerprint>

   Check whether the OpenPGP primary key or the X.509 certificate with
the given fingerprint is an ultimately trusted key or a trusted Root CA
certificate.  The fingerprint should be given as a hexstring (without
any blanks or colons or whatever in between) and may be left padded with
00 in case of an MD5 fingerprint.  GPGAgent will answer with:

         OK

   The key is in the table of trusted keys.

         ERR 304 (Not Trusted)

   The key is not in this table.

   Gpg needs the entire list of trusted keys to maintain the web of
trust; the following command is therefore quite helpful:

         LISTTRUSTED

   GpgAgent returns a list of trusted keys line by line:

         S: D 000000001234454556565656677878AF2F1ECCFF P
         S: D 340387563485634856435645634856438576457A P
         S: D FEDC6532453745367FD83474357495743757435D S
         S: OK

   The first item on a line is the hexified fingerprint where MD5
fingerprints are `00' padded to the left and the second item is a flag
to indicate the type of key (so that gpg is able to only take care of
PGP keys).  P = OpenPGP, S = S/MIME.  A client should ignore the rest
of the line, so that we can extend the format in the future.

   Finally a client should be able to mark a key as trusted:

        MARKTRUSTED FINGERPRINT "P"|"S"

   The server will then pop up a window to ask the user whether she
really trusts this key. For this it will probably ask for a text to be
displayed like this:

        S: INQUIRE TRUSTDESC
        C: D Do you trust the key with the fingerprint @FPR@
        C: D bla fasel blurb.
        C: END
        S: OK

   Known sequences with the pattern @foo@ are replaced according to this
table:

`@FPR16@'
     Format the fingerprint according to gpg rules for a v3 keys.

`@FPR20@'
     Format the fingerprint according to gpg rules for a v4 keys.

`@FPR@'
     Choose an appropriate format to format the fingerprint.

`@@'
     Replaced by a single `@'


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent GET_PASSPHRASE,  Next: Agent CLEAR_PASSPHRASE,  Prev: Agent ISTRUSTED,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.7 Ask for a passphrase
--------------------------

This function is usually used to ask for a passphrase to be used for
conventional encryption, but may also be used by programs which need
special handling of passphrases.  This command uses a syntax which helps
clients to use the agent with minimum effort.

       GET_PASSPHRASE [--data] [--check] [--no-ask] [--repeat[=N]] \
                      [--qualitybar] CACHE_ID                \
                      [ERROR_MESSAGE PROMPT DESCRIPTION]

   CACHE_ID is expected to be a string used to identify a cached
passphrase.  Use a `X' to bypass the cache.  With no other arguments
the agent returns a cached passphrase or an error.  By convention
either the hexified fingerprint of the key shall be used for CACHE_ID
or an arbitrary string prefixed with the name of the calling
application and a colon: Like `gpg:somestring'.

   ERROR_MESSAGE is either a single `X' for no error message or a
string to be shown as an error message like (e.g. "invalid
passphrase").  Blanks must be percent escaped or replaced by `+''.

   PROMPT is either a single `X' for a default prompt or the text to be
shown as the prompt.  Blanks must be percent escaped or replaced by `+'.

   DESCRIPTION is a text shown above the entry field.  Blanks must be
percent escaped or replaced by `+'.

   The agent either returns with an error or with a OK followed by the
hex encoded passphrase.  Note that the length of the strings is
implicitly limited by the maximum length of a command.  If the option
`--data' is used, the passphrase is not returned on the OK line but by
regular data lines; this is the preferred method.

   If the option `--check' is used, the standard passphrase constraints
checks are applied.  A check is not done if the passphrase has been
found in the cache.

   If the option `--no-ask' is used and the passphrase is not in the
cache the user will not be asked to enter a passphrase but the error
code `GPG_ERR_NO_DATA' is returned.

   If the option `--qualitybar' is used and a minimum passphrase length
has been configured, a visual indication of the entered passphrase
quality is shown.

       CLEAR_PASSPHRASE CACHE_ID

   may be used to invalidate the cache entry for a passphrase.  The
function returns with OK even when there is no cached passphrase.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent CLEAR_PASSPHRASE,  Next: Agent PRESET_PASSPHRASE,  Prev: Agent GET_PASSPHRASE,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.8 Remove a cached passphrase
--------------------------------

Use this command to remove a cached passphrase.

       CLEAR_PASSPHRASE [--mode=normal] <cache_id>

   The `--mode=normal' option can be used to clear a CACHE_ID that was
set by gpg-agent.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent PRESET_PASSPHRASE,  Next: Agent GET_CONFIRMATION,  Prev: Agent CLEAR_PASSPHRASE,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.9 Set a passphrase for a keygrip
------------------------------------

This command adds a passphrase to the cache for the specified KEYGRIP.

       PRESET_PASSPHRASE [--inquire] <string_or_keygrip> <timeout> [<hexstring>]

   The passphrase is a hexidecimal string when specified. When not
specified, the passphrase will be retrieved from the pinentry module
unless the `--inquire' option was specified in which case the
passphrase will be retrieved from the client.

   The TIMEOUT parameter keeps the passphrase cached for the specified
number of seconds. A value of `-1' means infinate while `0' means the
default (currently only a timeout of -1 is allowed, which means to never
expire it).


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent GET_CONFIRMATION,  Next: Agent HAVEKEY,  Prev: Agent PRESET_PASSPHRASE,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.10 Ask for confirmation
---------------------------

This command may be used to ask for a simple confirmation by presenting
a text and 2 buttons: Okay and Cancel.

       GET_CONFIRMATION DESCRIPTION

   DESCRIPTIONis displayed along with a Okay and Cancel button. Blanks
must be percent escaped or replaced by `+'.  A `X' may be used to
display confirmation dialog with a default text.

   The agent either returns with an error or with a OK.  Note, that the
length of DESCRIPTION is implicitly limited by the maximum length of a
command.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent HAVEKEY,  Next: Agent LEARN,  Prev: Agent GET_CONFIRMATION,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.11 Check whether a key is available
---------------------------------------

This can be used to see whether a secret key is available.  It does not
return any information on whether the key is somehow protected.

       HAVEKEY KEYGRIPS

   The agent answers either with OK or `No_Secret_Key' (208).  The
caller may want to check for other error codes as well.  More than one
keygrip may be given.  In this case the command returns success if at
least one of the keygrips corresponds to an available secret key.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent LEARN,  Next: Agent PASSWD,  Prev: Agent HAVEKEY,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.12 Register a smartcard
---------------------------

       LEARN [--send]

   This command is used to register a smartcard.  With the -send option
given the certificates are send back.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent PASSWD,  Next: Agent UPDATESTARTUPTTY,  Prev: Agent LEARN,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.13 Change a Passphrase
--------------------------

       PASSWD [--cache-nonce=<c>] [--passwd-nonce=<s>] [--preset] KEYGRIP

   This command is used to interactively change the passphrase of the
key identified by the hex string KEYGRIP.

   The `--preset' option may be used to add the new passphrase to the
cache using the default cache parameters.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent UPDATESTARTUPTTY,  Next: Agent GETEVENTCOUNTER,  Prev: Agent PASSWD,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.14 Change the standard display
----------------------------------

       UPDATESTARTUPTTY

   Set the startup TTY and X-DISPLAY variables to the values of this
session.  This command is useful to direct future pinentry invocations
to another screen.  It is only required because there is no way in the
ssh-agent protocol to convey this information.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent GETEVENTCOUNTER,  Next: Agent GETINFO,  Prev: Agent UPDATESTARTUPTTY,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.15 Get the Event Counters
-----------------------------

       GETEVENTCOUNTER

   This function return one status line with the current values of the
event counters.  The event counters are useful to avoid polling by
delaying a poll until something has changed.  The values are decimal
numbers in the range `0' to `UINT_MAX' and wrapping around to 0.  The
actual values should not be relied upon; they shall only be used to
detect a change.

   The currently defined counters are are:
`ANY'
     Incremented with any change of any of the other counters.

`KEY'
     Incremented for added or removed private keys.

`CARD'
     Incremented for changes of the card readers stati.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent GETINFO,  Next: Agent OPTION,  Prev: Agent GETEVENTCOUNTER,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.16 Return information about the process
-------------------------------------------

This is a multipurpose function to return a variety of information.

     GETINFO WHAT

   The value of WHAT specifies the kind of information returned:
`version'
     Return the version of the program.

`pid'
     Return the process id of the process.

`socket_name'
     Return the name of the socket used to connect the agent.

`ssh_socket_name'
     Return the name of the socket used for SSH connections.  If SSH
     support has not been enabled the error `GPG_ERR_NO_DATA' will be
     returned.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Agent OPTION,  Prev: Agent GETINFO,  Up: Agent Protocol

2.6.17 Set options for the session
----------------------------------

Here is a list of session options which are not yet described with
other commands.  The general syntax for an Assuan option is:

     OPTION  KEY=VALUE

Supported KEYs are:

`agent-awareness'
     This may be used to tell gpg-agent of which gpg-agent version the
     client is aware of.  gpg-agent uses this information to enable
     features which might break older clients.

`putenv'
     Change the session's environment to be used for the Pinentry.
     Valid values are:

    `NAME'
          Delete envvar NAME

    `NAME='
          Set envvar NAME to the empty string

    `NAME=VALUE'
          Set envvar NAME to the string VALUE.

`use-cache-for-signing'
     See Assuan command `PKSIGN'.

`allow-pinentry-notify'
     This does not need any value.  It is used to enable the
     PINENTRY_LAUNCHED inquiry.

`pinentry-mode'
     This option is used to change the operation mode of the pinentry.
     The following values are defined:

    `ask'
          This is the default mode which pops up a pinentry as needed.

    `cancel'
          Instead of popping up a pinentry, return the error code
          `GPG_ERR_CANCELED'.

    `error'
          Instead of popping up a pinentry, return the error code
          `GPG_ERR_NO_PIN_ENTRY'.

    `loopback'
          Use a loopback pinentry.  This fakes a pinentry by using
          inquiries   back to the caller to ask for a passphrase.  This
          option may only be   set if the agent has been configured for
          that.    Use the *Note option --allow-loopback-pinentry::.


`cache-ttl-opt-preset'
     This option sets the cache TTL for new entries created by GENKEY
     and PASSWD commands when using the `--preset' option.  It it is not
     used a default value is used.

`s2k-count'
     Instead of using the standard S2K count (which is computed on the
     fly), the given S2K count is used for new keys or when changing the
     passphrase of a key.  Values below 65536 are considered to be 0.
     This option is valid for the entire session or until reset to 0.
     This option is useful if the key is later used on boxes which are
     either much slower or faster than the actual box.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Invoking DIRMNGR,  Next: Invoking GPG,  Prev: Invoking GPG-AGENT,  Up: Top

3 Invoking DIRMNGR
******************

Since version 2.1 of GnuPG, `dirmngr' takes care of accessing the
OpenPGP keyservers.  As with previous versions it is also used as a
server for managing and downloading certificate revocation lists (CRLs)
for X.509 certificates, downloading X.509 certificates, and providing
access to OCSP providers.  Dirmngr is invoked internally by `gpg',
`gpgsm', or via the `gpg-connect-agent' tool.

   For historical reasons it is also possible to start `dirmngr' in a
system daemon mode which uses a different directory layout.  However,
this mode is deprecated and may eventually be removed.

*Note Option Index::,for an index to `DIRMNGR''s commands and options.

* Menu:

* Dirmngr Commands::      List of all commands.
* Dirmngr Options::       List of all options.
* Dirmngr Configuration:: Configuration files.
* Dirmngr Signals::       Use of signals.
* Dirmngr Examples::      Some usage examples.
* Dirmngr Protocol::      The protocol dirmngr uses.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Dirmngr Commands,  Next: Dirmngr Options,  Up: Invoking DIRMNGR

3.1 Commands
============

Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that
only one command is allowed.

`--version'
     Print the program version and licensing information.  Note that
     you cannot abbreviate this command.

`--help, -h'
     Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line
     options.  Not that you cannot abbreviate this command.

`--dump-options'
     Print a list of all available options and commands.  Note that you
     cannot abbreviate this command.

`--server'
     Run in server mode and wait for commands on the `stdin'.  The
     default mode is to create a socket and listen for commands there.
     This is only used for testing.

`--daemon'
     Run in background daemon mode and listen for commands on a socket.
     Note that this also changes the default home directory and enables
     the internal certificate validation code.  This mode is deprecated.

`--list-crls'
     List the contents of the CRL cache on `stdout'. This is probably
     only useful for debugging purposes.

`--load-crl FILE'
     This command requires a filename as additional argument, and it
     will make Dirmngr try to import the CRL in FILE into it's cache.
     Note, that this is only possible if Dirmngr is able to retrieve the
     CA's certificate directly by its own means.  In general it is
     better to use `gpgsm''s `--call-dirmngr loadcrl filename' command
     so that `gpgsm' can help dirmngr.

`--fetch-crl URL'
     This command requires an URL as additional argument, and it will
     make dirmngr try to retrieve an import the CRL from that URL into
     it's cache.  This is mainly useful for debugging purposes.  The
     `dirmngr-client' provides the same feature for a running dirmngr.

`--shutdown'
     This commands shuts down an running instance of Dirmngr.  This
     command has currently no effect.

`--flush'
     This command removes all CRLs from Dirmngr's cache.  Client
     requests will thus trigger reading of fresh CRLs.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Dirmngr Options,  Next: Dirmngr Configuration,  Prev: Dirmngr Commands,  Up: Invoking DIRMNGR

3.2 Option Summary
==================

`--options FILE'
     Reads configuration from FILE instead of from the default per-user
     configuration file.  The default configuration file is named
     `dirmngr.conf' and expected in the home directory.

`--homedir DIR'
     Set the name of the home directory to DIR.  This option is only
     effective when used on the command line.  The default depends on
     the running mode:

    With `--daemon' given on the commandline
          the directory named `/etc/gnupg' for configuration files,
          `/var/lib/gnupg/' for extra data and `/var/cache/gnupg' for
          cached CRLs.

    Without `--daemon' given on the commandline
          the directory named `.gnupg' directly below the home directory
          of the user unless the environment variable `GNUPGHOME' has
          been set in which case its value will be used.  All kind of
          data is stored below this directory.

`-v'

`--verbose'
     Outputs additional information while running.  You can increase
     the verbosity by giving several verbose commands to DIRMNGR, such
     as `-vv'.

`--log-file FILE'
     Append all logging output to FILE.  This is very helpful in seeing
     what the agent actually does.

`--debug-level LEVEL'
     Select the debug level for investigating problems.  LEVEL may be a
     numeric value or by a keyword:

    `none'
          No debugging at all.  A value of less than 1 may be used
          instead of the keyword.

    `basic'
          Some basic debug messages.  A value between 1 and 2 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `advanced'
          More verbose debug messages.  A value between 3 and 5 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `expert'
          Even more detailed messages.  A value between 6 and 8 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `guru'
          All of the debug messages you can get. A value greater than 8
          may be used instead of the keyword.  The creation of hash
          tracing files is only enabled if the keyword is used.

     How these messages are mapped to the actual debugging flags is not
     specified and may change with newer releases of this program. They
     are however carefully selected to best aid in debugging.

`--debug FLAGS'
     This option is only useful for debugging and the behaviour may
     change at any time without notice.  FLAGS are bit encoded and may
     be given in usual C-Syntax.

`--debug-all'
     Same as `--debug=0xffffffff'

`--gnutls-debug LEVEL'
     Enable debugging of GNUTLS at LEVEL.

`--debug-wait N'
     When running in server mode, wait N seconds before entering the
     actual processing loop and print the pid.  This gives time to
     attach a debugger.

`-s'
`--sh'
`-c'
`--csh'
     Format the info output in daemon mode for use with the standard
     Bourne shell respective the C-shell . The default ist to guess it
     based on the environment variable `SHELL' which is in almost all
     cases sufficient.

`--force'
     Enabling this option forces loading of expired CRLs; this is only
     useful for debugging.

`--disable-ldap'
     Entirely disables the use of LDAP.

`--disable-http'
     Entirely disables the use of HTTP.

`--ignore-http-dp'
     When looking for the location of a CRL, the to be tested
     certificate usually contains so called "CRL Distribution Point"
     (DP) entries which are URLs describing the way to access the CRL.
     The first found DP entry is used.  With this option all entries
     using the HTTP scheme are ignored when looking for a suitable DP.

`--ignore-ldap-dp'
     This is similar to `--ignore-http-dp' but ignores entries using
     the LDAP scheme.  Both options may be combined resulting in
     ignoring DPs entirely.

`--ignore-ocsp-service-url'
     Ignore all OCSP URLs contained in the certificate.  The effect is
     to force the use of the default responder.

`--honor-http-proxy'
     If the environment variable `http_proxy' has been set, use its
     value to access HTTP servers.

`--http-proxy HOST[:PORT]'
     Use HOST and PORT to access HTTP servers.  The use of this options
     overrides the environment variable `http_proxy' regardless whether
     `--honor-http-proxy' has been set.

`--ldap-proxy HOST[:PORT]'
     Use HOST and PORT to connect to LDAP servers.  If PORT is
     ommitted, port 389 (standard LDAP port) is used.  This overrides
     any specified host and port part in a LDAP URL and will also be
     used if host and port have been ommitted from the URL.

`--only-ldap-proxy'
     Never use anything else but the LDAP "proxy" as configured with
     `--ldap-proxy'.  Usually `dirmngr' tries to use other configured
     LDAP server if the connection using the "proxy" failed.

`--ldapserverlist-file FILE'
     Read the list of LDAP servers to consult for CRLs and certificates
     from file instead of the default per-user ldap server list file.
     The default value for FILE is `dirmngr_ldapservers.conf' or
     `ldapservers.conf' when running in `--daemon' mode.

     This server list file contains one LDAP server per line in the
     format

     HOSTNAME:PORT:USERNAME:PASSWORD:BASE_DN

     Lines starting with a  `#' are comments.

     Note that as usual all strings entered are expected to be UTF-8
     encoded.  Obviously this will lead to problems if the password has
     orginally been encoded as Latin-1.  There is no other solution
     here than to put such a password in the binary encoding into the
     file (i.e. non-ascii characters won't show up readable).(1)

`--ldaptimeout SECS'
     Specify the number of seconds to wait for an LDAP query before
     timing out. The default is currently 100 seconds.  0 will never
     timeout.

`--add-servers'
     This options makes dirmngr add any servers it discovers when
     validating certificates against CRLs to the internal list of
     servers to consult for certificates and CRLs.

     This options is useful when trying to validate a certificate that
     has a CRL distribution point that points to a server that is not
     already listed in the ldapserverlist. Dirmngr will always go to
     this server and try to download the CRL, but chances are high that
     the certificate used to sign the CRL is located on the same
     server. So if dirmngr doesn't add that new server to list, it will
     often not be able to verify the signature of the CRL unless the
     `--add-servers' option is used.

     Note: The current version of dirmngr has this option disabled by
     default.

`--allow-ocsp'
     This option enables OCSP support if requested by the client.

     OCSP requests are rejected by default because they may violate the
     privacy of the user; for example it is possible to track the time
     when a user is reading a mail.

`--ocsp-responder URL'
     Use URL as the default OCSP Responder if the certificate does not
     contain information about an assigned responder.  Note, that
     `--ocsp-signer' must also be set to a valid certificate.

`--ocsp-signer FPR|FILE'
     Use the certificate with the fingerprint FPR to check the
     responses of the default OCSP Responder.  Alternativly a filename
     can be given in which case the respinse is expected to be signed
     by one of the certificates described in that file.  Any argument
     which contains a slash, dot or tilde is considered a filename.
     Usual filename expansion takes place: A tilde at the start
     followed by a slash is replaced by the content of `HOME', no slash
     at start describes a relative filename which will be searched at
     the home directory.  To make sure that the FILE is searched in the
     home directory, either prepend the name with "./" or use a name
     which contains a dot.

     If a response has been signed by a certificate described by these
     fingerprints no further check upon the validity of this
     certificate is done.

     The format of the FILE is a list of SHA-1 fingerprint, one per
     line with optional colons between the bytes.  Empty lines and lines
     prefix with a hash mark are ignored.

`--ocsp-max-clock-skew N'
     The number of seconds a skew between the OCSP responder and them
     local clock is accepted.  Default is 600 (20 minutes).

`--ocsp-max-period N'
     Seconds a response is at maximum considered valid after the time
     given in the thisUpdate field.  Default is 7776000 (90 days).

`--ocsp-current-period N'
     The number of seconds an OCSP response is considered valid after
     the time given in the NEXT_UPDATE datum.  Default is 10800 (3
     hours).

`--max-replies N'
     Do not return more that N items in one query.  The default is 10.

`--ignore-cert-extension OID'
     Add OID to the list of ignored certificate extensions.  The OID is
     expected to be in dotted decimal form, like `2.5.29.3'.  This
     option may be used more than once.  Critical flagged certificate
     extensions matching one of the OIDs in the list are treated as if
     they are actually handled and thus the certificate won't be
     rejected due to an unknown critical extension.  Use this option
     with care because extensions are usually flagged as critical for a
     reason.

`--hkp-cacert FILE'
     Use the root certificates in FILE for verification of the TLS
     certificates used with `hkps' (keyserver access over TLS).  If the
     file is in PEM format a suffix of `.pem' is expected for FILE.
     This option may be given multiple times to add more root
     certificates.


   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) The `gpgconf' tool might be helpful for frontends as it allows
to edit this configuration file using percent escaped strings.


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3.3 Configuration
=================

Dirmngr makes use of several directories when running in daemon mode:

`~/.gnupg'
`/etc/gnupg'
     The first is the standard home directory for all configuration
     files.  In the deprecated system daemon mode the second directory
     is used instead.

`~/.gnupg/trusted-certs'
`/etc/gnupg/trusted-certs'
     The first directory should be filled with certificates of Root CAs
     you are trusting in checking the CRLs and signing OCSP Reponses.
     The second directory is used in the deprecated systems daemon mode.

     Usually these are the same certificates you use with the
     applications making use of dirmngr.  It is expected that each of
     these certificate files contain exactly one DER encoded
     certificate in a file with the suffix `.crt' or `.der'.  `dirmngr'
     reads those certificates on startup and when given a SIGHUP.
     Certificates which are not readable or do not make up a proper
     X.509 certificate are ignored; see the log file for details.

     Note that for OCSP responses the certificate specified using the
     option `--ocsp-signer' is always considered valid to sign OCSP
     requests.

`~/.gnupg/extra-certs'
`/var/lib/gnupg/extra-certs'
     The first directory may contain extra certificates which are
     preloaded into the interal cache on startup.This is convenient in
     cases you have a couple intermediate CA certificates or
     certificates ususally used to sign OCSP reponses.  These
     certificates are first tried before going out to the net to look
     for them.  These certificates must also be DER encoded and
     suffixed with `.crt' or `.der'.  The second directory is used
     instead in the deprecated systems daemon mode.

`/var/run/gnupg'
     This directory is only used in the deprecated system daemon mode.
     It keeps the socket file for accessing `dirmngr' services.  The
     name of the socket file will be `S.dirmngr'.  Make sure that this
     directory has the proper permissions to let `dirmngr' create the
     socket file and that eligible users may read and write to that
     socket.

`~/.gnupg/crls.d'
`/var/cache/gnupg/crls.d'
     The first directory is used to store cached CRLs.  The `crls.d'
     part will be created by dirmngr if it does not exists but you need
     to make sure that the upper directory exists.  The second
     directory is used instead in the deprecated systems daemon mode.


   To be able to see what's going on you should create the configure
file `~/gnupg/dirmngr.conf' with at least one line:

     log-file ~/dirmngr.log

   To be able to perform OCSP requests you probably want to add the
line:

     allow-ocsp

   To make sure that new options are read and that after the
installation of a new GnuPG versions the installed dirmngr is running,
you may want to kill an existing dirmngr first:

     gpgconf --kill dirmngr

   You may check the log file to see whether all desired root
certificates have been loaded correctly.


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3.4 Use of signals.
===================

A running `dirmngr' may be controlled by signals, i.e. using the `kill'
command to send a signal to the process.

   Here is a list of supported signals:

`SIGHUP'
     This signals flushes all internally cached CRLs as well as any
     cached certificates.  Then the certificate cache is reinitialized
     as on startup.  Options are re-read from the configuration file.
     Instead of sending this signal it is better to use
          gpgconf --reload dirmngr

`SIGTERM'
     Shuts down the process but waits until all current requests are
     fulfilled.  If the process has received 3 of these signals and
     requests are still pending, a shutdown is forced.  You may also use
          gpgconf --kill dirmngr
     instead of this signal

`SIGINT'
     Shuts down the process immediately.

`SIGUSR1'
     This prints some caching statistics to the log file.



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3.5 Examples
============

Here is an example on how to show dirmngr's internal table of OpenPGP
keyserver addresses.  The output is intended for debugging purposes and
not part of a defined API.

       gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr 'keyserver --hosttable' /bye

   To inhibit the use of a particular host you have noticed in one of
the keyserver pools, you may use

      gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr 'keyserver --dead pgpkeys.bnd.de' /bye

   The description of the `keyserver' command can be printed using

      gpg-connect-agent --dirmngr 'help keyserver' /bye


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3.6 Dirmngr's Assuan Protocol
=============================

Assuan is the IPC protocol used to access dirmngr.  This is a
description of the commands implemented by dirmngr.

* Menu:

* Dirmngr LOOKUP::      Look up a certificate via LDAP
* Dirmngr ISVALID::     Validate a certificate using a CRL or OCSP.
* Dirmngr CHECKCRL::    Validate a certificate using a CRL.
* Dirmngr CHECKOCSP::   Validate a certificate using OCSP.
* Dirmngr CACHECERT::   Put a certificate into the internal cache.
* Dirmngr VALIDATE::    Validate a certificate for debugging.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Dirmngr LOOKUP,  Next: Dirmngr ISVALID,  Up: Dirmngr Protocol

3.6.1 Return the certificate(s) found
-------------------------------------

Lookup certificate.  To allow multiple patterns (which are ORed)
quoting is required: Spaces are to be translated into "+" or into
"%20"; obviously this requires that the usual escape quoting rules are
applied.  The server responds with:

       S: D <DER encoded certificate>
       S: END
       S: D <second DER encoded certificate>
       S: END
       S: OK

   In this example 2 certificates are returned.  The server may return
any number of certificates; OK will also be returned when no
certificates were found.  The dirmngr might return a status line

       S: S TRUNCATED <n>

   To indicate that the output was truncated to N items due to a
limitation of the server or by an arbitrary set limit.

   The option `--url' may be used if instead of a search pattern a
complete URL to the certificate is known:

       C: LOOKUP --url CN%3DWerner%20Koch,o%3DIntevation%20GmbH,c%3DDE?userCertificate

   If the option `--cache-only' is given, no external lookup is done so
that only certificates from the cache are returned.

   With the option `--single', the first and only the first match will
be returned.  Unless option `--cache-only' is also used, no local
lookup will be done in this case.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Dirmngr ISVALID,  Next: Dirmngr CHECKCRL,  Prev: Dirmngr LOOKUP,  Up: Dirmngr Protocol

3.6.2 Validate a certificate using a CRL or OCSP
------------------------------------------------

       ISVALID [--only-ocsp] [--force-default-responder] CERTID|CERTFPR

   Check whether the certificate described by the CERTID has been
revoked.  Due to caching, the Dirmngr is able to answer immediately in
most cases.

   The CERTID is a hex encoded string consisting of two parts,
delimited by a single dot.  The first part is the SHA-1 hash of the
issuer name and the second part the serial number.

   Alternatively the certificate's SHA-1 fingerprint CERTFPR may be
given in which case an OCSP request is done before consulting the CRL.
If the option `--only-ocsp' is given, no fallback to a CRL check will
be used.  If the option `--force-default-responder' is given, only the
default OCSP responder will be used and any other methods of obtaining
an OCSP responder URL won't be used.

Common return values are:

`GPG_ERR_NO_ERROR (0)'
     This is the positive answer: The certificate is not revoked and we
     have an up-to-date revocation list for that certificate.  If OCSP
     was used the responder confirmed that the certificate has not been
     revoked.

`GPG_ERR_CERT_REVOKED'
     This is the negative answer: The certificate has been revoked.
     Either it is in a CRL and that list is up to date or an OCSP
     responder informed us that it has been revoked.

`GPG_ERR_NO_CRL_KNOWN'
     No CRL is known for this certificate or the CRL is not valid or
     out of date.

`GPG_ERR_NO_DATA'
     The OCSP responder returned an "unknown" status.  This means that
     it is not aware of the certificate's status.

`GPG_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED'
     This is commonly seen if OCSP support has not been enabled in the
     configuration.

   If DirMngr has not enough information about the given certificate
(which is the case for not yet cached certificates), it will will
inquire the missing data:

       S: INQUIRE SENDCERT <CertID>
       C: D <DER encoded certificate>
       C: END

   A client should be aware that DirMngr may ask for more than one
certificate.

   If Dirmngr has a certificate but the signature of the certificate
could not been validated because the root certificate is not known to
dirmngr as trusted, it may ask back to see whether the client trusts
this the root certificate:

       S: INQUIRE ISTRUSTED <CertHexfpr>
       C: D 1
       C: END

   Only this answer will let Dirmngr consider the CRL as valid.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Dirmngr CHECKCRL,  Next: Dirmngr CHECKOCSP,  Prev: Dirmngr ISVALID,  Up: Dirmngr Protocol

3.6.3 Validate a certificate using a CRL
----------------------------------------

Check whether the certificate with FINGERPRINT (SHA-1 hash of the
entire X.509 certificate blob) is valid or not by consulting the CRL
responsible for this certificate.  If the fingerprint has not been
given or the certificate is not know, the function inquires the
certificate using:

       S: INQUIRE TARGETCERT
       C: D <DER encoded certificate>
       C: END

   Thus the caller is expected to return the certificate for the request
(which should match FINGERPRINT) as a binary blob.  Processing then
takes place without further interaction; in particular dirmngr tries to
locate other required certificate by its own mechanism which includes a
local certificate store as well as a list of trusted root certificates.

The return code is 0 for success; i.e. the certificate has not been
revoked or one of the usual error codes from libgpg-error.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Dirmngr CHECKOCSP,  Next: Dirmngr CACHECERT,  Prev: Dirmngr CHECKCRL,  Up: Dirmngr Protocol

3.6.4 Validate a certificate using OCSP
---------------------------------------

       CHECKOCSP [--force-default-responder] [FINGERPRINT]

   Check whether the certificate with FINGERPRINT (the SHA-1 hash of
the entire X.509 certificate blob) is valid by consulting the appropiate
OCSP responder.  If the fingerprint has not been given or the
certificate is not known by Dirmngr, the function inquires the
certificate using:

       S: INQUIRE TARGETCERT
       C: D <DER encoded certificate>
       C: END

   Thus the caller is expected to return the certificate for the request
(which should match FINGERPRINT) as a binary blob.  Processing then
takes place without further interaction; in particular dirmngr tries to
locate other required certificates by its own mechanism which includes
a local certificate store as well as a list of trusted root
certificates.

   If the option `--force-default-responder' is given, only the default
OCSP responder is used.  This option is the per-command variant of the
global option `--ignore-ocsp-service-url'.

The return code is 0 for success; i.e. the certificate has not been
revoked or one of the usual error codes from libgpg-error.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Dirmngr CACHECERT,  Next: Dirmngr VALIDATE,  Prev: Dirmngr CHECKOCSP,  Up: Dirmngr Protocol

3.6.5 Put a certificate into the internal cache
-----------------------------------------------

Put a certificate into the internal cache.  This command might be
useful if a client knows in advance certificates required for a test and
wnats to make sure they get added to the internal cache.  It is also
helpful for debugging.  To get the actual certificate, this command
immediately inquires it using

       S: INQUIRE TARGETCERT
       C: D <DER encoded certificate>
       C: END

   Thus the caller is expected to return the certificate for the request
as a binary blob.

The return code is 0 for success; i.e. the certificate has not been
succesfully cached or one of the usual error codes from libgpg-error.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Dirmngr VALIDATE,  Prev: Dirmngr CACHECERT,  Up: Dirmngr Protocol

3.6.6 Validate a certificate for debugging
------------------------------------------

Validate a certificate using the certificate validation function used
internally by dirmngr.  This command is only useful for debugging.  To
get the actual certificate, this command immediately inquires it using

       S: INQUIRE TARGETCERT
       C: D <DER encoded certificate>
       C: END

   Thus the caller is expected to return the certificate for the request
as a binary blob.


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4 Invoking GPG
**************

`gpg2' is the OpenPGP part of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It is a
tool to provide digital encryption and signing services using the
OpenPGP standard. `gpg2' features complete key management and all bells
and whistles you can expect from a decent OpenPGP implementation.

   In contrast to the standalone command gpg from GnuPG 1.x, which is
might be better suited for server and embedded platforms, the 2.x
version is commonly installed under the name `gpg2' and targeted to the
desktop as it requires several other modules to be installed.

   The old 1.x version will be kept maintained and it is possible to
install both versions on the same system.  Documentation for the old
GnuPG 1.x command is available as a man page and at *note GnuPG 1:
(gpg)Top.

   *Note Option Index::, for an index to `gpg2''s commands and options.

* Menu:

* GPG Commands::            List of all commands.
* GPG Options::             List of all options.
* GPG Configuration::       Configuration files.
* GPG Examples::            Some usage examples.

Developer information:
* Unattended Usage of GPG:: Using `gpg' from other programs.


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4.1 Commands
============

Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that
only one command is allowed.

   `gpg2' may be run with no commands, in which case it will perform a
reasonable action depending on the type of file it is given as input
(an encrypted message is decrypted, a signature is verified, a file
containing keys is listed).

   Please remember that option as well as command parsing stops as soon
as a non-option is encountered, you can explicitly stop parsing by
using the special option `--'.

* Menu:

* General GPG Commands::        Commands not specific to the functionality.
* Operational GPG Commands::    Commands to select the type of operation.
* OpenPGP Key Management::      How to manage your keys.


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4.1.1 Commands not specific to the function
-------------------------------------------

`--version'
     Print the program version and licensing information.  Note that you
     cannot abbreviate this command.

`--help'
`-h'
     Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command line
     options.  Note that you cannot abbreviate this command.

`--warranty'
     Print warranty information.

`--dump-options'
     Print a list of all available options and commands.  Note that you
     cannot abbreviate this command.


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4.1.2 Commands to select the type of operation
----------------------------------------------

`--sign'
`-s'
     Make a signature. This command may be combined with `--encrypt'
     (for a signed and encrypted message), `--symmetric' (for a signed
     and symmetrically encrypted message), or `--encrypt' and
     `--symmetric' together (for a signed message that may be decrypted
     via a secret key or a passphrase).  The key to be used for signing
     is chosen by default or can be set with the `--local-user' and
     `--default-key' options.

`--clearsign'
     Make a clear text signature.  The content in a clear text
     signature is readable without any special software. OpenPGP
     software is only needed to verify the signature.  Clear text
     signatures may modify end-of-line whitespace for platform
     independence and are not intended to be reversible.  The key to be
     used for signing is chosen by default or can be set with the
     `--local-user' and `--default-key' options.

`--detach-sign'
`-b'
     Make a detached signature.

`--encrypt'
`-e'
     Encrypt data. This option may be combined with `--sign' (for a
     signed and encrypted message), `--symmetric' (for a message that
     may be decrypted via a secret key or a passphrase), or `--sign'
     and `--symmetric' together (for a signed message that may be
     decrypted via a secret key or a passphrase).

`--symmetric'
`-c'
     Encrypt with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase. The default
     symmetric cipher used is AES128, but may be chosen with the
     `--cipher-algo' option. This option may be combined with `--sign'
     (for a signed and symmetrically encrypted message), `--encrypt'
     (for a message that may be decrypted via a secret key or a
     passphrase), or `--sign' and `--encrypt' together (for a signed
     message that may be decrypted via a secret key or a passphrase).

`--store'
     Store only (make a simple RFC1991 literal data packet).

`--decrypt'
`-d'
     Decrypt the file given on the command line (or STDIN if no file is
     specified) and write it to STDOUT (or the file specified with
     `--output'). If the decrypted file is signed, the signature is also
     verified. This command differs from the default operation, as it
     never writes to the filename which is included in the file and it
     rejects files which don't begin with an encrypted message.

`--verify'
     Assume that the first argument is a signed file and verify it
     without generating any output.  With no arguments, the signature
     packet is read from STDIN.  If only a one argument is given, it is
     expected to be a complete signature.

     With more than 1 argument, the first should be a detached signature
     and the remaining files ake up the the signed data. To read the
     signed data from STDIN, use `-' as the second filename.  For
     security reasons a detached signature cannot read the signed
     material from STDIN without denoting it in the above way.

     Note: If the option `--batch' is not used, `gpg2' may assume that
     a single argument is a file with a detached signature and it will
     try to find a matching data file by stripping certain suffixes.
     Using this historical feature to verify a detached signature is
     strongly discouraged; always specify the data file too.

     Note: When verifying a cleartext signature, `gpg' verifies only
     what makes up the cleartext signed data and not any extra data
     outside of the cleartext signature or header lines following
     directly the dash marker line.  The option `--output' may be used
     to write out the actual signed data; but there are other pitfalls
     with this format as well.  It is suggested to avoid cleartext
     signatures in favor of detached signatures.

`--multifile'
     This modifies certain other commands to accept multiple files for
     processing on the command line or read from STDIN with each
     filename on a separate line. This allows for many files to be
     processed at once. `--multifile' may currently be used along with
     `--verify', `--encrypt', and `--decrypt'. Note that `--multifile
     --verify' may not be used with detached signatures.

`--verify-files'
     Identical to `--multifile --verify'.

`--encrypt-files'
     Identical to `--multifile --encrypt'.

`--decrypt-files'
     Identical to `--multifile --decrypt'.

`--list-keys'
`-k'
`--list-public-keys'
     List all keys from the public keyrings, or just the keys given on
     the command line.

     Avoid using the output of this command in scripts or other
     programs as it is likely to change as GnuPG changes. See
     `--with-colons' for a machine-parseable key listing command that
     is appropriate for use in scripts and other programs.

`--list-secret-keys'
`-K'
     List all keys from the secret keyrings, or just the ones given on
     the command line. A `#' after the letters `sec' means that the
     secret key is not usable (for example, if it was created via
     `--export-secret-subkeys').

`--list-sigs'
     Same as `--list-keys', but the signatures are listed too.  This
     command has the same effect as using `--list-keys' with
     `--with-sig-list'.

     For each signature listed, there are several flags in between the
     "sig" tag and keyid. These flags give additional information about
     each signature. From left to right, they are the numbers 1-3 for
     certificate check level (see `--ask-cert-level'), "L" for a local
     or non-exportable signature (see `--lsign-key'), "R" for a
     nonRevocable signature (see the `--edit-key' command "nrsign"),
     "P" for a signature that contains a policy URL (see
     `--cert-policy-url'), "N" for a signature that contains a notation
     (see `--cert-notation'), "X" for an eXpired signature (see
     `--ask-cert-expire'), and the numbers 1-9 or "T" for 10 and above
     to indicate trust signature levels (see the `--edit-key' command
     "tsign").

`--check-sigs'
     Same as `--list-sigs', but the signatures are verified.  Note that
     for performance reasons the revocation status of a signing key is
     not shown.  This command has the same effect as using
     `--list-keys' with `--with-sig-check'.

     The status of the verification is indicated by a flag directly
     following the "sig" tag (and thus before the flags described above
     for `--list-sigs').  A "!" indicates that the signature has been
     successfully verified, a "-" denotes a bad signature and a "%" is
     used if an error occurred while checking the signature (e.g. a non
     supported algorithm).

`--locate-keys'
     Locate the keys given as arguments.  This command basically uses
     the same algorithm as used when locating keys for encryption or
     signing and may thus be used to see what keys `gpg2' might use.  In
     particular external methods as defined by `--auto-key-locate' may
     be used to locate a key.  Only public keys are listed.

`--fingerprint'
     List all keys (or the specified ones) along with their
     fingerprints. This is the same output as `--list-keys' but with
     the additional output of a line with the fingerprint. May also be
     combined with `--list-sigs' or `--check-sigs'.  If this command is
     given twice, the fingerprints of all secondary keys are listed too.

`--list-packets'
     List only the sequence of packets. This is mainly useful for
     debugging.

`--card-edit'
     Present a menu to work with a smartcard. The subcommand "help"
     provides an overview on available commands. For a detailed
     description, please see the Card HOWTO at
     http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/howtos.html#GnuPG-cardHOWTO .

`--card-status'
     Show the content of the smart card.

`--change-pin'
     Present a menu to allow changing the PIN of a smartcard. This
     functionality is also available as the subcommand "passwd" with the
     `--card-edit' command.

`--delete-key `name''
     Remove key from the public keyring. In batch mode either `--yes' is
     required or the key must be specified by fingerprint. This is a
     safeguard against accidental deletion of multiple keys.

`--delete-secret-key `name''
     Remove key from the secret keyring. In batch mode the key must be
     specified by fingerprint.

`--delete-secret-and-public-key `name''
     Same as `--delete-key', but if a secret key exists, it will be
     removed first. In batch mode the key must be specified by
     fingerprint.

`--export'
     Either export all keys from all keyrings (default keyrings and
     those registered via option `--keyring'), or if at least one name
     is given, those of the given name. The exported keys are written
     to STDOUT or to the file given with option `--output'.  Use
     together with `--armor' to mail those keys.

`--send-keys `key IDs''
     Similar to `--export' but sends the keys to a keyserver.
     Fingerprints may be used instead of key IDs. Option `--keyserver'
     must be used to give the name of this keyserver. Don't send your
     complete keyring to a keyserver -- select only those keys which
     are new or changed by you.  If no key IDs are given, `gpg' does
     nothing.

`--export-secret-keys'
`--export-secret-subkeys'
     Same as `--export', but exports the secret keys instead.  The
     exported keys are written to STDOUT or to the file given with
     option `--output'.  This command is often used along with the
     option `--armor' to allow easy printing of the key for paper
     backup; however the external tool `paperkey' does a better job for
     creating backups on paper.  Note that exporting a secret key can
     be a security risk if the exported keys are send over an insecure
     channel.

     The second form of the command has the special property to render
     the secret part of the primary key useless; this is a GNU
     extension to OpenPGP and other implementations can not be expected
     to successfully import such a key.  Its intended use is to
     generated a full key with an additional signing subkey on a
     dedicated machine and then using this command to export the key
     without the primary key to the main machine.

     GnuPG may ask you to enter the passphrase for the key.  This is
     required because the internal protection method of the secret key
     is different from the one specified by the OpenPGP protocol.

`--import'
`--fast-import'
     Import/merge keys. This adds the given keys to the keyring. The
     fast version is currently just a synonym.

     There are a few other options which control how this command works.
     Most notable here is the `--import-options merge-only' option
     which does not insert new keys but does only the merging of new
     signatures, user-IDs and subkeys.

`--recv-keys `key IDs''
     Import the keys with the given key IDs from a keyserver. Option
     `--keyserver' must be used to give the name of this keyserver.

`--refresh-keys'
     Request updates from a keyserver for keys that already exist on the
     local keyring. This is useful for updating a key with the latest
     signatures, user IDs, etc. Calling this with no arguments will
     refresh the entire keyring. Option `--keyserver' must be used to
     give the name of the keyserver for all keys that do not have
     preferred keyservers set (see `--keyserver-options
     honor-keyserver-url').

`--search-keys `names''
     Search the keyserver for the given names. Multiple names given
     here will be joined together to create the search string for the
     keyserver.  Option `--keyserver' must be used to give the name of
     this keyserver.  Keyservers that support different search methods
     allow using the syntax specified in "How to specify a user ID"
     below. Note that different keyserver types support different
     search methods. Currently only LDAP supports them all.

`--fetch-keys `URIs''
     Retrieve keys located at the specified URIs. Note that different
     installations of GnuPG may support different protocols (HTTP, FTP,
     LDAP, etc.)

`--update-trustdb'
     Do trust database maintenance. This command iterates over all keys
     and builds the Web of Trust. This is an interactive command
     because it may have to ask for the "ownertrust" values for keys.
     The user has to give an estimation of how far she trusts the owner
     of the displayed key to correctly certify (sign) other keys. GnuPG
     only asks for the ownertrust value if it has not yet been assigned
     to a key. Using the `--edit-key' menu, the assigned value can be
     changed at any time.

`--check-trustdb'
     Do trust database maintenance without user interaction. From time
     to time the trust database must be updated so that expired keys or
     signatures and the resulting changes in the Web of Trust can be
     tracked. Normally, GnuPG will calculate when this is required and
     do it automatically unless `--no-auto-check-trustdb' is set. This
     command can be used to force a trust database check at any time.
     The processing is identical to that of `--update-trustdb' but it
     skips keys with a not yet defined "ownertrust".

     For use with cron jobs, this command can be used together with
     `--batch' in which case the trust database check is done only if a
     check is needed. To force a run even in batch mode add the option
     `--yes'.

`--export-ownertrust'
     Send the ownertrust values to STDOUT. This is useful for backup
     purposes as these values are the only ones which can't be
     re-created from a corrupted trustdb.  Example:
            gpg2 --export-ownertrust > otrust.txt

`--import-ownertrust'
     Update the trustdb with the ownertrust values stored in `files' (or
     STDIN if not given); existing values will be overwritten.  In case
     of a severely damaged trustdb and if you have a recent backup of
     the ownertrust values (e.g. in the file `otrust.txt', you may
     re-create the trustdb using these commands:
            cd ~/.gnupg
            rm trustdb.gpg
            gpg2 --import-ownertrust < otrust.txt

`--rebuild-keydb-caches'
     When updating from version 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 this command should be
     used to create signature caches in the keyring. It might be handy
     in other situations too.

`--print-md `algo''
`--print-mds'
     Print message digest of algorithm ALGO for all given files or
     STDIN.  With the second form (or a deprecated "*" as algo) digests
     for all available algorithms are printed.

`--gen-random `0|1|2' `count''
     Emit COUNT random bytes of the given quality level 0, 1 or 2. If
     COUNT is not given or zero, an endless sequence of random bytes
     will be emitted.  If used with `--armor' the output will be base64
     encoded.  PLEASE, don't use this command unless you know what you
     are doing; it may remove precious entropy from the system!

`--gen-prime `mode'  `bits''
     Use the source, Luke :-). The output format is still subject to
     change.

`--enarmor'

`--dearmor'
     Pack or unpack an arbitrary input into/from an OpenPGP ASCII armor.
     This is a GnuPG extension to OpenPGP and in general not very
     useful.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: OpenPGP Key Management,  Prev: Operational GPG Commands,  Up: GPG Commands

4.1.3 How to manage your keys
-----------------------------

This section explains the main commands for key management

`--quick-gen-key `user-id''
     This is simple command to generate a standard key with one user id.
     In contrast to `--gen-key' the key is generated directly without
     the need to answer a bunch of prompts.  Unless the option `--yes'
     is given, the key creation will be canceled if the given user id
     already exists in the key ring.

     If invoked directly on the console without any special options an
     answer to a "Continue?" style confirmation prompt is required.  In
     case the user id already exists in the key ring a second prompt to
     force the creation of the key will show up.

`--gen-key'
     Generate a new key pair using teh current default parameters.
     This is the standard command to create a new key.

`--full-gen-key'
     Generate a new key pair with dialogs for all options.  This is an
     extended version of `--gen-key'.

     There is also a feature which allows you to create keys in batch
     mode. See the the manual section "Unattended key generation" on how
     to use this.

`--gen-revoke `name''
     Generate a revocation certificate for the complete key. To revoke
     a subkey or a signature, use the `--edit' command.

`--desig-revoke `name''
     Generate a designated revocation certificate for a key. This
     allows a user (with the permission of the keyholder) to revoke
     someone else's key.

`--edit-key'
     Present a menu which enables you to do most of the key management
     related tasks.  It expects the specification of a key on the
     command line.

    uid `n'
          Toggle selection of user ID or photographic user ID with
          index `n'.    Use `*' to select all and `0' to deselect all.

    key `n'
          Toggle selection of subkey with index `n'.    Use `*' to
          select all and `0' to deselect all.

    sign
          Make a signature on key of user `name' If the key is not yet
          signed by the default user (or the users given with -u), the
          program   displays the information of the key again, together
          with its   fingerprint and asks whether it should be signed.
          This question is   repeated for all users specified with   -u.

    lsign
          Same as "sign" but the signature is marked as non-exportable
          and will   therefore never be used by others. This may be
          used to make keys   valid only in the local environment.

    nrsign
          Same as "sign" but the signature is marked as non-revocable
          and can   therefore never be revoked.

    tsign
          Make a trust signature. This is a signature that combines the
          notions   of certification (like a regular signature), and
          trust (like the   "trust" command). It is generally only
          useful in distinct communities   or groups.

     Note that "l" (for local / non-exportable), "nr" (for
     non-revocable, and "t" (for trust) may be freely mixed and
     prefixed to "sign" to create a signature of any type desired.

    delsig
          Delete a signature. Note that it is not possible to retract a
          signature,   once it has been send to the public (i.e. to a
          keyserver).  In that case   you better use `revsig'.

    revsig
          Revoke a signature. For every signature which has been
          generated by   one of the secret keys, GnuPG asks whether a
          revocation certificate   should be generated.

    check
          Check the signatures on all selected user IDs.

    adduid
          Create an additional user ID.

    addphoto
          Create a photographic user ID. This will prompt for a JPEG
          file that   will be embedded into the user ID. Note that a
          very large JPEG will make   for a very large key. Also note
          that some programs will display your   JPEG unchanged
          (GnuPG), and some programs will scale it to fit in a   dialog
          box (PGP).

    showphoto
          Display the selected photographic user ID.

    deluid
          Delete a user ID or photographic user ID.  Note that it is not
           possible to retract a user id, once it has been send to the
          public   (i.e. to a keyserver).  In that case you better use
          `revuid'.

    revuid
          Revoke a user ID or photographic user ID.

    primary
          Flag the current user id as the primary one, removes the
          primary user   id flag from all other user ids and sets the
          timestamp of all affected   self-signatures one second ahead.
          Note that setting a photo user ID   as primary makes it
          primary over other photo user IDs, and setting a   regular
          user ID as primary makes it primary over other regular user
          IDs.

    keyserver
          Set a preferred keyserver for the specified user ID(s). This
          allows   other users to know where you prefer they get your
          key from. See   `--keyserver-options honor-keyserver-url' for
          more on how this   works.  Setting a value of "none" removes
          an existing preferred   keyserver.

    notation
          Set a name=value notation for the specified user ID(s). See
          `--cert-notation' for more on how this works. Setting a value
          of   "none" removes all notations, setting a notation
          prefixed with a minus   sign (-) removes that notation, and
          setting a notation name (without the   =value) prefixed with
          a minus sign removes all notations with that name.

    pref
          List preferences from the selected user ID. This shows the
          actual   preferences, without including any implied
          preferences.

    showpref
          More verbose preferences listing for the selected user ID.
          This shows   the preferences in effect by including the
          implied preferences of 3DES   (cipher), SHA-1 (digest), and
          Uncompressed (compression) if they are   not already included
          in the preference list. In addition, the   preferred
          keyserver and signature notations (if any) are shown.

    setpref `string'
          Set the list of user ID preferences to `string' for all (or
          just   the selected) user IDs. Calling setpref with no
          arguments sets the   preference list to the default (either
          built-in or set via   `--default-preference-list'), and
          calling setpref with "none"   as the argument sets an empty
          preference list. Use `gpg2   --version' to get a list of
          available algorithms. Note that while you   can change the
          preferences on an attribute user ID (aka "photo ID"),   GnuPG
          does not select keys via attribute user IDs so these
          preferences   will not be used by GnuPG.

          When setting preferences, you should list the algorithms in
          the order   which you'd like to see them used by someone else
          when encrypting a   message to your key.  If you don't
          include 3DES, it will be   automatically added at the end.
          Note that there are many factors that   go into choosing an
          algorithm (for example, your key may not be the   only
          recipient), and so the remote OpenPGP application being used
          to   send to you may or may not follow your exact chosen
          order for a given   message.  It will, however, only choose
          an algorithm that is present   on the preference list of
          every recipient key.  See also the   INTEROPERABILITY WITH
          OTHER OPENPGP PROGRAMS section below.

    addkey
          Add a subkey to this key.

    addcardkey
          Generate a subkey on a card and add it to this key.

    keytocard
          Transfer the selected secret subkey (or the primary key if no
          subkey   has been selected) to a smartcard. The secret key in
          the keyring will   be replaced by a stub if the key could be
          stored successfully on the   card and you use the save
          command later. Only certain key types may be   transferred to
          the card. A sub menu allows you to select on what card   to
          store the key. Note that it is not possible to get that key
          back   from the card - if the card gets broken your secret
          key will be lost   unless you have a backup somewhere.

    bkuptocard `file'
          Restore the given file to a card. This command may be used to
          restore a   backup key (as generated during card
          initialization) to a new card. In   almost all cases this
          will be the encryption key. You should use this   command
          only with the corresponding public key and make sure that the
           file given as argument is indeed the backup to restore. You
          should then   select 2 to restore as encryption key.  You
          will first be asked to enter   the passphrase of the backup
          key and then for the Admin PIN of the card.

    delkey
          Remove a subkey (secondart key). Note that it is not possible
          to retract   a subkey, once it has been send to the public
          (i.e. to a keyserver).  In   that case you better use
          `revkey'.

    revkey
          Revoke a subkey.

    expire
          Change the key or subkey expiration time. If a subkey is
          selected, the   expiration time of this subkey will be
          changed. With no selection, the   key expiration of the
          primary key is changed.

    trust
          Change the owner trust value for the key. This updates the
          trust-db   immediately and no save is required.

    disable
    enable
          Disable or enable an entire key. A disabled key can not
          normally be   used for encryption.

    addrevoker
          Add a designated revoker to the key. This takes one optional
          argument:   "sensitive". If a designated revoker is marked as
          sensitive, it will   not be exported by default (see
          export-options).

    passwd
          Change the passphrase of the secret key.

    toggle
          Toggle between public and secret key listing.

    clean
          Compact (by removing all signatures except the selfsig) any
          user ID   that is no longer usable (e.g. revoked, or
          expired). Then, remove any   signatures that are not usable
          by the trust calculations.    Specifically, this removes any
          signature that does not validate, any   signature that is
          superseded by a later signature, revoked signatures,   and
          signatures issued by keys that are not present on the keyring.

    minimize
          Make the key as small as possible. This removes all
          signatures from   each user ID except for the most recent
          self-signature.

    cross-certify
          Add cross-certification signatures to signing subkeys that
          may not   currently have them. Cross-certification signatures
          protect against a   subtle attack against signing subkeys. See
           `--require-cross-certification'.  All new keys generated have
           this signature by default, so this option is only useful to
          bring   older keys up to date.

    save
          Save all changes to the key rings and quit.

    quit
          Quit the program without updating the   key rings.

     The listing shows you the key with its secondary keys and all user
     ids.  The primary user id is indicated by a dot, and selected keys
     or user ids are indicated by an asterisk.  The trust value is
     displayed with the primary key: the first is the assigned owner
     trust and the second is the calculated trust value. Letters are
     used for the values:

    -
          No ownertrust assigned / not yet calculated.

    e
          Trust   calculation has failed; probably due to an expired
          key.

    q
          Not enough information for calculation.

    n
          Never trust this key.

    m
          Marginally trusted.

    f
          Fully trusted.

    u
          Ultimately trusted.


`--sign-key `name''
     Signs a public key with your secret key. This is a shortcut
     version of the subcommand "sign" from `--edit'.

`--lsign-key `name''
     Signs a public key with your secret key but marks it as
     non-exportable. This is a shortcut version of the subcommand
     "lsign" from `--edit-key'.

`--quick-sign-key `fpr' [`names']'
`--quick-lsign-key `fpr' [`names']'
     Directly sign a key from the passphrase without any further user
     interaction.  The `fpr' must be the verified primary fingerprint
     of a key in the local keyring. If no `names' are given, all useful
     user ids are signed; with given [`names'] only useful user ids
     matching one of theses names are signed.  The command
     `--quick-lsign-key' marks the signatures as non-exportable.  If
     such a non-exportable signature already exists the
     `--quick-sign-key' turns it into a exportable signature.

     This command uses reasonable defaults and thus does not provide the
     full flexibility of the "sign" subcommand from `--edit-key'.  Its
     intended use is to help unattended key signing by utilizing a list
     of verified fingerprints.

`--passwd USER_ID'
     Change the passphrase of the secret key belonging to the
     certificate specified as USER_ID.  This is a shortcut for the
     sub-command `passwd' of the edit key menu.



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4.2 Option Summary
==================

`gpg2' features a bunch of options to control the exact behaviour and
to change the default configuration.

* Menu:

* GPG Configuration Options::   How to change the configuration.
* GPG Key related Options::     Key related options.
* GPG Input and Output::        Input and Output.
* OpenPGP Options::             OpenPGP protocol specific options.
* Compliance Options::          Compliance options.
* GPG Esoteric Options::        Doing things one usually don't want to do.
* Deprecated Options::          Deprecated options.

   Long options can be put in an options file (default
"~/.gnupg/gpg.conf"). Short option names will not work - for example,
"armor" is a valid option for the options file, while "a" is not. Do not
write the 2 dashes, but simply the name of the option and any required
arguments. Lines with a hash ('#') as the first non-white-space
character are ignored. Commands may be put in this file too, but that is
not generally useful as the command will execute automatically with
every execution of gpg.

   Please remember that option parsing stops as soon as a non-option is
encountered, you can explicitly stop parsing by using the special option
`--'.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPG Configuration Options,  Next: GPG Key related Options,  Up: GPG Options

4.2.1 How to change the configuration
-------------------------------------

These options are used to change the configuration and are usually found
in the option file.

`--default-key NAME'
     Use NAME as the default key to sign with. If this option is not
     used, the default key is the first key found in the secret keyring.
     Note that `-u' or `--local-user' overrides this option.

`--default-recipient NAME'
     Use NAME as default recipient if option `--recipient' is not used
     and don't ask if this is a valid one. NAME must be non-empty.

`--default-recipient-self'
     Use the default key as default recipient if option `--recipient'
     is not used and don't ask if this is a valid one. The default key
     is the first one from the secret keyring or the one set with
     `--default-key'.

`--no-default-recipient'
     Reset `--default-recipient' and `--default-recipient-self'.

`-v, --verbose'
     Give more information during processing. If used twice, the input
     data is listed in detail.

`--no-verbose'
     Reset verbose level to 0.

`-q, --quiet'
     Try to be as quiet as possible.

`--batch'
`--no-batch'
     Use batch mode.  Never ask, do not allow interactive commands.
     `--no-batch' disables this option.  Note that even with a filename
     given on the command line, gpg might still need to read from STDIN
     (in particular if gpg figures that the input is a detached
     signature and no data file has been specified).  Thus if you do
     not want to feed data via STDIN, you should connect STDIN to
     `/dev/null'.

`--no-tty'
     Make sure that the TTY (terminal) is never used for any output.
     This option is needed in some cases because GnuPG sometimes prints
     warnings to the TTY even if `--batch' is used.

`--yes'
     Assume "yes" on most questions.

`--no'
     Assume "no" on most questions.

`--list-options `parameters''
     This is a space or comma delimited string that gives options used
     when listing keys and signatures (that is, `--list-keys',
     `--list-sigs', `--list-public-keys', `--list-secret-keys', and the
     `--edit-key' functions).  Options can be prepended with a `no-'
     (after the two dashes) to give the opposite meaning.  The options
     are:

    show-photos
          Causes `--list-keys', `--list-sigs',   `--list-public-keys',
          and `--list-secret-keys' to   display any photo IDs attached
          to the key.  Defaults to no. See also   `--photo-viewer'.
          Does not work with `--with-colons':   see `--attribute-fd'
          for the appropriate way to get photo data   for scripts and
          other frontends.

    show-usage
          Show usage information for keys and subkeys in the standard
          key   listing.  This is a list of letters indicating the
          allowed usage for a   key (`E'=encryption, `S'=signing,
          `C'=certification,   `A'=authentication).  Defaults to no.

    show-policy-urls
          Show policy URLs in the `--list-sigs' or `--check-sigs'
          listings.  Defaults to no.

    show-notations
    show-std-notations
    show-user-notations
          Show all, IETF standard, or user-defined signature notations
          in the   `--list-sigs' or `--check-sigs' listings. Defaults
          to no.

    show-keyserver-urls
          Show any preferred keyserver URL in the `--list-sigs' or
          `--check-sigs' listings. Defaults to no.

    show-uid-validity
          Display the calculated validity of user IDs during key
          listings.    Defaults to no.

    show-unusable-uids
          Show revoked and expired user IDs in key listings. Defaults
          to no.

    show-unusable-subkeys
          Show revoked and expired subkeys in key listings. Defaults to
          no.

    show-keyring
          Display the keyring name at the head of key listings to show
          which   keyring a given key resides on. Defaults to no.

    show-sig-expire
          Show signature expiration dates (if any) during `--list-sigs'
          or   `--check-sigs' listings. Defaults to no.

    show-sig-subpackets
          Include signature subpackets in the key listing. This option
          can take an   optional argument list of the subpackets to
          list. If no argument is   passed, list all subpackets.
          Defaults to no. This option is only   meaningful when using
          `--with-colons' along with   `--list-sigs' or `--check-sigs'.


`--verify-options `parameters''
     This is a space or comma delimited string that gives options used
     when verifying signatures. Options can be prepended with a `no-'
     to give the opposite meaning. The options are:

    show-photos
          Display any photo IDs present on the key that issued the
          signature.    Defaults to no. See also `--photo-viewer'.

    show-policy-urls
          Show policy URLs in the signature being verified. Defaults to
          no.

    show-notations
    show-std-notations
    show-user-notations
          Show all, IETF standard, or user-defined signature notations
          in the   signature being verified. Defaults to IETF standard.

    show-keyserver-urls
          Show any preferred keyserver URL in the signature being
          verified.    Defaults to no.

    show-uid-validity
          Display the calculated validity of the user IDs on the key
          that issued   the signature. Defaults to no.

    show-unusable-uids
          Show revoked and expired user IDs during signature
          verification.    Defaults to no.

    show-primary-uid-only
          Show only the primary user ID during signature verification.
          That is   all the AKA lines as well as photo Ids are not
          shown with the signature   verification status.

    pka-lookups
          Enable PKA lookups to verify sender addresses. Note that PKA
          is based   on DNS, and so enabling this option may disclose
          information on when   and what signatures are verified or to
          whom data is encrypted. This   is similar to the "web bug"
          described for the auto-key-retrieve   feature.

    pka-trust-increase
          Raise the trust in a signature to full if the signature
          passes PKA   validation. This option is only meaningful if
          pka-lookups is set.

`--enable-large-rsa'
`--disable-large-rsa'
     With -gen-key and -batch, enable the creation of larger RSA secret
     keys than is generally recommended (up to 8192 bits).  These large
     keys are more expensive to use, and their signatures and
     certifications are also larger.

`--enable-dsa2'
`--disable-dsa2'
     Enable hash truncation for all DSA keys even for old DSA Keys up to
     1024 bit.  This is also the default with `--openpgp'.  Note that
     older versions of GnuPG also required this flag to allow the
     generation of DSA larger than 1024 bit.

`--photo-viewer `string''
     This is the command line that should be run to view a photo ID.
     "%i" will be expanded to a filename containing the photo. "%I"
     does the same, except the file will not be deleted once the viewer
     exits.  Other flags are "%k" for the key ID, "%K" for the long key
     ID, "%f" for the key fingerprint, "%t" for the extension of the
     image type (e.g. "jpg"), "%T" for the MIME type of the image (e.g.
     "image/jpeg"), "%v" for the single-character calculated validity
     of the image being viewed (e.g. "f"), "%V" for the calculated
     validity as a string (e.g.  "full"), "%U" for a base32 encoded
     hash of the user ID, and "%%" for an actual percent sign. If
     neither %i or %I are present, then the photo will be supplied to
     the viewer on standard input.

     The default viewer is "xloadimage -fork -quiet -title 'KeyID 0x%k'
     STDIN". Note that if your image viewer program is not secure, then
     executing it from GnuPG does not make it secure.

`--exec-path `string''
     Sets a list of directories to search for photo viewers and
     keyserver helpers. If not provided, keyserver helpers use the
     compiled-in default directory, and photo viewers use the $PATH
     environment variable.  Note, that on W32 system this value is
     ignored when searching for keyserver helpers.

`--keyring `file''
     Add `file' to the current list of keyrings. If `file' begins with
     a tilde and a slash, these are replaced by the $HOME directory. If
     the filename does not contain a slash, it is assumed to be in the
     GnuPG home directory ("~/.gnupg" if `--homedir' or $GNUPGHOME is
     not used).

     Note that this adds a keyring to the current list. If the intent
     is to use the specified keyring alone, use `--keyring' along with
     `--no-default-keyring'.

`--secret-keyring `file''
     This is an obsolete option and ignored.  All secret keys are
     stored in the `private-keys-v1.d' directory below the GnuPG home
     directory.

`--primary-keyring `file''
     Designate `file' as the primary public keyring. This means that
     newly imported keys (via `--import' or keyserver `--recv-from')
     will go to this keyring.

`--trustdb-name `file''
     Use `file' instead of the default trustdb. If `file' begins with a
     tilde and a slash, these are replaced by the $HOME directory. If
     the filename does not contain a slash, it is assumed to be in the
     GnuPG home directory (`~/.gnupg' if `--homedir' or $GNUPGHOME is
     not used).

`--homedir DIR'
     Set the name of the home directory to DIR. If this option is not
     used, the home directory defaults to `~/.gnupg'.  It is only
     recognized when given on the command line.  It also overrides any
     home directory stated through the environment variable `GNUPGHOME'
     or (on Windows systems) by means of the Registry entry
     HKCU\SOFTWARE\GNU\GNUPG:HOMEDIR.

     On Windows systems it is possible to install GnuPG as a portable
     application.  In this case only this command line option is
     considered, all other ways to set a home directory are ignored.

     To install GnuPG as a portable application under Windows, create an
     empty file name `gpgconf.ctl' in the same directory as the tool
     `gpgconf.exe'.  The root of the installation is than that
     directory; or, if `gpgconf.exe' has been installed directly below
     a directory named `bin', its parent directory.  You also need to
     make sure that the following directories exist and are writable:
     `ROOT/home' for the GnuPG home and `ROOT/var/cache/gnupg' for
     internal cache files.

`--display-charset `name''
     Set the name of the native character set. This is used to convert
     some informational strings like user IDs to the proper UTF-8
     encoding.  Note that this has nothing to do with the character set
     of data to be encrypted or signed; GnuPG does not recode
     user-supplied data. If this option is not used, the default
     character set is determined from the current locale. A verbosity
     level of 3 shows the chosen set.  Valid values for `name' are:

    iso-8859-1
          This is the Latin 1 set.

    iso-8859-2
          The Latin 2 set.

    iso-8859-15
          This is currently an alias for   the Latin 1 set.

    koi8-r
          The usual Russian set (rfc1489).

    utf-8
          Bypass all translations and assume   that the OS uses native
          UTF-8 encoding.

`--utf8-strings'
`--no-utf8-strings'
     Assume that command line arguments are given as UTF8 strings. The
     default (`--no-utf8-strings') is to assume that arguments are
     encoded in the character set as specified by `--display-charset'.
     These options affect all following arguments. Both options may be
     used multiple times.

`--options `file''
     Read options from `file' and do not try to read them from the
     default options file in the homedir (see `--homedir'). This option
     is ignored if used in an options file.

`--no-options'
     Shortcut for `--options /dev/null'. This option is detected before
     an attempt to open an option file.  Using this option will also
     prevent the creation of a `~/.gnupg' homedir.

`-z `n''
`--compress-level `n''
`--bzip2-compress-level `n''
     Set compression level to `n' for the ZIP and ZLIB compression
     algorithms. The default is to use the default compression level of
     zlib (normally 6). `--bzip2-compress-level' sets the compression
     level for the BZIP2 compression algorithm (defaulting to 6 as
     well). This is a different option from `--compress-level' since
     BZIP2 uses a significant amount of memory for each additional
     compression level.  `-z' sets both. A value of 0 for `n' disables
     compression.

`--bzip2-decompress-lowmem'
     Use a different decompression method for BZIP2 compressed files.
     This alternate method uses a bit more than half the memory, but
     also runs at half the speed. This is useful under extreme low
     memory circumstances when the file was originally compressed at a
     high `--bzip2-compress-level'.

`--mangle-dos-filenames'
`--no-mangle-dos-filenames'
     Older version of Windows cannot handle filenames with more than one
     dot. `--mangle-dos-filenames' causes GnuPG to replace (rather than
     add to) the extension of an output filename to avoid this problem.
     This option is off by default and has no effect on non-Windows
     platforms.

`--ask-cert-level'
`--no-ask-cert-level'
     When making a key signature, prompt for a certification level. If
     this option is not specified, the certification level used is set
     via `--default-cert-level'. See `--default-cert-level' for
     information on the specific levels and how they are used.
     `--no-ask-cert-level' disables this option. This option defaults
     to no.

`--default-cert-level `n''
     The default to use for the check level when signing a key.

     0 means you make no particular claim as to how carefully you
     verified the key.

     1 means you believe the key is owned by the person who claims to
     own it but you could not, or did not verify the key at all. This is
     useful for a "persona" verification, where you sign the key of a
     pseudonymous user.

     2 means you did casual verification of the key. For example, this
     could mean that you verified the key fingerprint and checked the
     user ID on the key against a photo ID.

     3 means you did extensive verification of the key. For example,
     this could mean that you verified the key fingerprint with the
     owner of the key in person, and that you checked, by means of a
     hard to forge document with a photo ID (such as a passport) that
     the name of the key owner matches the name in the user ID on the
     key, and finally that you verified (by exchange of email) that the
     email address on the key belongs to the key owner.

     Note that the examples given above for levels 2 and 3 are just
     that: examples. In the end, it is up to you to decide just what
     "casual" and "extensive" mean to you.

     This option defaults to 0 (no particular claim).

`--min-cert-level'
     When building the trust database, treat any signatures with a
     certification level below this as invalid. Defaults to 2, which
     disregards level 1 signatures. Note that level 0 "no particular
     claim" signatures are always accepted.

`--trusted-key `long key ID''
     Assume that the specified key (which must be given as a full 8
     byte key ID) is as trustworthy as one of your own secret keys.
     This option is useful if you don't want to keep your secret keys
     (or one of them) online but still want to be able to check the
     validity of a given recipient's or signator's key.

`--trust-model `pgp|classic|direct|always|auto''
     Set what trust model GnuPG should follow. The models are:

    pgp
          This is the Web of Trust combined with trust signatures as
          used in PGP   5.x and later. This is the default trust model
          when creating a new   trust database.

    classic
          This is the standard Web of Trust as introduced by PGP 2.

    direct
          Key validity is set directly by the user and not calculated
          via the   Web of Trust.

    always
          Skip key validation and assume that used keys are always fully
           valid. You generally won't use this unless you are using some
           external validation scheme. This option also suppresses the
          "[uncertain]" tag printed with signature checks when there is
          no   evidence that the user ID is bound to the key.  Note
          that this   trust model still does not allow the use of
          expired, revoked, or   disabled keys.

    auto
          Select the trust model depending on whatever the internal
          trust   database says. This is the default model if such a
          database already   exists.

`--auto-key-locate `parameters''
`--no-auto-key-locate'
     GnuPG can automatically locate and retrieve keys as needed using
     this option. This happens when encrypting to an email address (in
     the "user@example.com" form), and there are no user@example.com
     keys on the local keyring.  This option takes any number of the
     following mechanisms, in the order they are to be tried:

    cert
          Locate a key using DNS CERT, as specified in rfc4398.

    pka
          Locate a key using DNS PKA.

    ldap
          Using DNS Service Discovery, check the domain in question for
          any LDAP   keyservers to use.  If this fails, attempt to
          locate the key using the   PGP Universal method of checking
          `ldap://keys.(thedomain)'.

    keyserver
          Locate a key using whatever keyserver is defined using the
          `--keyserver' option.

    keyserver-URL
          In addition, a keyserver URL as used in the `--keyserver'
          option   may be used here to query that particular keyserver.

    local
          Locate the key using the local keyrings.  This mechanism
          allows to   select the order a local key lookup is done.
          Thus using   `--auto-key-locate local' is identical to
          `--no-auto-key-locate'.

    nodefault
          This flag disables the standard local key lookup, done before
          any of the   mechanisms defined by the `--auto-key-locate'
          are tried.  The   position of this mechanism in the list does
          not matter.  It is not   required if `local' is also used.

    clear
          Clear all defined mechanisms.  This is useful to override
          mechanisms given in a config file.


`--keyid-format `short|0xshort|long|0xlong''
     Select how to display key IDs. "short" is the traditional
     8-character key ID. "long" is the more accurate (but less
     convenient) 16-character key ID. Add an "0x" to either to include
     an "0x" at the beginning of the key ID, as in 0x99242560.  Note
     that this option is ignored if the option -with-colons is used.

`--keyserver `name''
     Use `name' as your keyserver. This is the server that
     `--recv-keys', `--send-keys', and `--search-keys' will communicate
     with to receive keys from, send keys to, and search for keys on.
     The format of the `name' is a URI:
     `scheme:[//]keyservername[:port]' The scheme is the type of
     keyserver: "hkp" for the HTTP (or compatible) keyservers, "ldap"
     for the LDAP keyservers, or "mailto" for the Graff email
     keyserver. Note that your particular installation of GnuPG may
     have other keyserver types available as well. Keyserver schemes
     are case-insensitive. After the keyserver name, optional keyserver
     configuration options may be provided. These are the same as the
     global `--keyserver-options' from below, but apply only to this
     particular keyserver.

     Most keyservers synchronize with each other, so there is generally
     no need to send keys to more than one server. The keyserver
     `hkp://keys.gnupg.net' uses round robin DNS to give a different
     keyserver each time you use it.

`--keyserver-options `name=value1 ''
     This is a space or comma delimited string that gives options for
     the keyserver. Options can be prefixed with a `no-' to give the
     opposite meaning. Valid import-options or export-options may be
     used here as well to apply to importing (`--recv-key') or exporting
     (`--send-key') a key from a keyserver. While not all options are
     available for all keyserver types, some common options are:

    include-revoked
          When searching for a key with `--search-keys', include keys
          that   are marked on the keyserver as revoked. Note that not
          all keyservers   differentiate between revoked and unrevoked
          keys, and for such   keyservers this option is meaningless.
          Note also that most keyservers do   not have cryptographic
          verification of key revocations, and so turning   this option
          off may result in skipping keys that are incorrectly marked
          as revoked.

    include-disabled
          When searching for a key with `--search-keys', include keys
          that   are marked on the keyserver as disabled. Note that
          this option is not   used with HKP keyservers.

    auto-key-retrieve
          This option enables the automatic retrieving of keys from a
          keyserver   when verifying signatures made by keys that are
          not on the local   keyring.

          Note that this option makes a "web bug" like behavior
          possible.    Keyserver operators can see which keys you
          request, so by sending you   a message signed by a brand new
          key (which you naturally will not have   on your local
          keyring), the operator can tell both your IP address and
          the time when you verified the signature.

    honor-keyserver-url
          When using `--refresh-keys', if the key in question has a
          preferred   keyserver URL, then use that preferred keyserver
          to refresh the key   from. In addition, if auto-key-retrieve
          is set, and the signature   being verified has a preferred
          keyserver URL, then use that preferred   keyserver to fetch
          the key from. Defaults to yes.

    honor-pka-record
          If auto-key-retrieve is set, and the signature being verified
          has a   PKA record, then use the PKA information to fetch the
          key. Defaults   to yes.

    include-subkeys
          When receiving a key, include subkeys as potential targets.
          Note that   this option is not used with HKP keyservers, as
          they do not support   retrieving keys by subkey id.

    use-temp-files
          On most Unix-like platforms, GnuPG communicates with the
          keyserver   helper program via pipes, which is the most
          efficient method. This   option forces GnuPG to use temporary
          files to communicate. On some   platforms (such as Win32 and
          RISC OS), this option is always enabled.

    keep-temp-files
          If using `use-temp-files', do not delete the temp files after
          using   them. This option is useful to learn the keyserver
          communication   protocol by reading the temporary files.

    verbose
          Tell the keyserver helper program to be more verbose. This
          option can   be repeated multiple times to increase the
          verbosity level.

    timeout
          Tell the keyserver helper program how long (in seconds) to
          try and   perform a keyserver action before giving up. Note
          that performing   multiple actions at the same time uses this
          timeout value per action.    For example, when retrieving
          multiple keys via `--recv-keys', the   timeout applies
          separately to each key retrieval, and not to the
          `--recv-keys' command as a whole. Defaults to 30 seconds.

    http-proxy=`value'
          Set the proxy to use for HTTP and HKP keyservers.  This
          overrides the   "http_proxy" environment variable, if any.

    debug
          Turn on debug output in the keyserver helper program.  Note
          that the   details of debug output depends on which keyserver
          helper program is   being used, and in turn, on any libraries
          that the keyserver helper   program uses internally (libcurl,
          openldap, etc).

    check-cert
          This option has no more function since GnuPG 2.1.  Use the
          `dirmngr' configuration options instead.

    ca-cert-file
          This option has no more function since GnuPG 2.1.  Use the
          `dirmngr' configuration options instead.


`--completes-needed `n''
     Number of completely trusted users to introduce a new key signer
     (defaults to 1).

`--marginals-needed `n''
     Number of marginally trusted users to introduce a new key signer
     (defaults to 3)

`--max-cert-depth `n''
     Maximum depth of a certification chain (default is 5).

`--no-sig-cache'
     Do not cache the verification status of key signatures.  Caching
     gives a much better performance in key listings. However, if you
     suspect that your public keyring is not save against write
     modifications, you can use this option to disable the caching. It
     probably does not make sense to disable it because all kind of
     damage can be done if someone else has write access to your public
     keyring.

`--no-sig-create-check'
     GnuPG normally verifies each signature right after creation to
     protect against bugs and hardware malfunctions which could leak
     out bits from the secret key. This extra verification needs some
     time (about 115% for DSA keys), and so this option can be used to
     disable it.  However, due to the fact that the signature creation
     needs manual interaction, this performance penalty does not matter
     in most settings.

`--auto-check-trustdb'
`--no-auto-check-trustdb'
     If GnuPG feels that its information about the Web of Trust has to
     be updated, it automatically runs the `--check-trustdb' command
     internally.  This may be a time consuming process.
     `--no-auto-check-trustdb' disables this option.

`--use-agent'
`--no-use-agent'
     This is dummy option. `gpg2' always requires the agent.

`--gpg-agent-info'
     This is dummy option. It has no effect when used with `gpg2'.

`--agent-program FILE'
     Specify an agent program to be used for secret key operations.  The
     default value is determined by running `gpgconf' with the option
     `--list-dirs'.  Note that the pipe symbol (`|') is used for a
     regression test suite hack and may thus not be used in the file
     name.

`--dirmngr-program FILE'
     Specify a dirmngr program to be used for keyserver access.  The
     default value is `/usr/sbin/dirmngr'.  This is only used as a
     fallback when the environment variable `DIRMNGR_INFO' is not set or
     a running dirmngr cannot be connected.

`--no-autostart'
     Do not start the gpg-agent or the dirmngr if it has not yet been
     started and its service is required.  This option is mostly useful
     on machines where the connection to gpg-agent has been redirected
     to another machines.  If dirmngr is required on the remote
     machine, it may be started manually using `gpgconf --launch
     dirmngr'.

`--lock-once'
     Lock the databases the first time a lock is requested and do not
     release the lock until the process terminates.

`--lock-multiple'
     Release the locks every time a lock is no longer needed. Use this
     to override a previous `--lock-once' from a config file.

`--lock-never'
     Disable locking entirely. This option should be used only in very
     special environments, where it can be assured that only one process
     is accessing those files. A bootable floppy with a stand-alone
     encryption system will probably use this. Improper usage of this
     option may lead to data and key corruption.

`--exit-on-status-write-error'
     This option will cause write errors on the status FD to immediately
     terminate the process. That should in fact be the default but it
     never worked this way and thus we need an option to enable this,
     so that the change won't break applications which close their end
     of a status fd connected pipe too early. Using this option along
     with `--enable-progress-filter' may be used to cleanly cancel long
     running gpg operations.

`--limit-card-insert-tries `n''
     With `n' greater than 0 the number of prompts asking to insert a
     smartcard gets limited to N-1. Thus with a value of 1 gpg won't at
     all ask to insert a card if none has been inserted at startup. This
     option is useful in the configuration file in case an application
     does not know about the smartcard support and waits ad infinitum
     for an inserted card.

`--no-random-seed-file'
     GnuPG uses a file to store its internal random pool over
     invocations.  This makes random generation faster; however
     sometimes write operations are not desired. This option can be
     used to achieve that with the cost of slower random generation.

`--no-greeting'
     Suppress the initial copyright message.

`--no-secmem-warning'
     Suppress the warning about "using insecure memory".

`--no-permission-warning'
     Suppress the warning about unsafe file and home directory
     (`--homedir') permissions. Note that the permission checks that
     GnuPG performs are not intended to be authoritative, but rather
     they simply warn about certain common permission problems. Do not
     assume that the lack of a warning means that your system is secure.

     Note that the warning for unsafe `--homedir' permissions cannot be
     suppressed in the gpg.conf file, as this would allow an attacker to
     place an unsafe gpg.conf file in place, and use this file to
     suppress warnings about itself. The `--homedir' permissions
     warning may only be suppressed on the command line.

`--no-mdc-warning'
     Suppress the warning about missing MDC integrity protection.

`--require-secmem'
`--no-require-secmem'
     Refuse to run if GnuPG cannot get secure memory. Defaults to no
     (i.e. run, but give a warning).

`--require-cross-certification'
`--no-require-cross-certification'
     When verifying a signature made from a subkey, ensure that the
     cross certification "back signature" on the subkey is present and
     valid.  This protects against a subtle attack against subkeys that
     can sign.  Defaults to `--require-cross-certification' for `gpg2'.

`--expert'
`--no-expert'
     Allow the user to do certain nonsensical or "silly" things like
     signing an expired or revoked key, or certain potentially
     incompatible things like generating unusual key types. This also
     disables certain warning messages about potentially incompatible
     actions. As the name implies, this option is for experts only. If
     you don't fully understand the implications of what it allows you
     to do, leave this off. `--no-expert' disables this option.



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4.2.2 Key related options
-------------------------

`--recipient NAME'
`-r'
     Encrypt for user id NAME. If this option or `--hidden-recipient'
     is not specified, GnuPG asks for the user-id unless
     `--default-recipient' is given.

`--hidden-recipient NAME'
`-R'
     Encrypt for user ID NAME, but hide the key ID of this user's key.
     This option helps to hide the receiver of the message and is a
     limited countermeasure against traffic analysis. If this option or
     `--recipient' is not specified, GnuPG asks for the user ID unless
     `--default-recipient' is given.

`--encrypt-to `name''
     Same as `--recipient' but this one is intended for use in the
     options file and may be used with your own user-id as an
     "encrypt-to-self". These keys are only used when there are other
     recipients given either by use of `--recipient' or by the asked
     user id.  No trust checking is performed for these user ids and
     even disabled keys can be used.

`--hidden-encrypt-to `name''
     Same as `--hidden-recipient' but this one is intended for use in
     the options file and may be used with your own user-id as a hidden
     "encrypt-to-self". These keys are only used when there are other
     recipients given either by use of `--recipient' or by the asked
     user id.  No trust checking is performed for these user ids and
     even disabled keys can be used.

`--no-encrypt-to'
     Disable the use of all `--encrypt-to' and `--hidden-encrypt-to'
     keys.

`--group `name=value1 ''
     Sets up a named group, which is similar to aliases in email
     programs.  Any time the group name is a recipient (`-r' or
     `--recipient'), it will be expanded to the values specified.
     Multiple groups with the same name are automatically merged into a
     single group.

     The values are `key IDs' or fingerprints, but any key description
     is accepted. Note that a value with spaces in it will be treated as
     two different values. Note also there is only one level of
     expansion -- you cannot make an group that points to another
     group. When used from the command line, it may be necessary to
     quote the argument to this option to prevent the shell from
     treating it as multiple arguments.

`--ungroup `name''
     Remove a given entry from the `--group' list.

`--no-groups'
     Remove all entries from the `--group' list.

`--local-user NAME'
`-u'
     Use NAME as the key to sign with. Note that this option overrides
     `--default-key'.

`--try-secret-key NAME'
     For hidden recipients GPG needs to know the keys to use for trial
     decryption.  The key set with `--default-key' is always tried
     first, but this is often not sufficient.  This option allows to
     set more keys to be used for trial decryption.  Although any valid
     user-id specification may be used for NAME it makes sense to use
     at least the long keyid to avoid ambiguities.  Note that gpg-agent
     might pop up a pinentry for a lot keys to do the trial decryption.
     If you want to stop all further trial decryption you may use
     close-window button instead of the cancel button.

`--try-all-secrets'
     Don't look at the key ID as stored in the message but try all
     secret keys in turn to find the right decryption key. This option
     forces the behaviour as used by anonymous recipients (created by
     using `--throw-keyids' or `--hidden-recipient') and might come
     handy in case where an encrypted message contains a bogus key ID.

`--skip-hidden-recipients'
`--no-skip-hidden-recipients'
     During decryption skip all anonymous recipients.  This option
     helps in the case that people use the hidden recipients feature to
     hide there own encrypt-to key from others.  If oneself has many
     secret keys this may lead to a major annoyance because all keys
     are tried in turn to decrypt soemthing which was not really
     intended for it.  The drawback of this option is that it is
     currently not possible to decrypt a message which includes real
     anonymous recipients.



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4.2.3 Input and Output
----------------------

`--armor'
`-a'
     Create ASCII armored output.  The default is to create the binary
     OpenPGP format.

`--no-armor'
     Assume the input data is not in ASCII armored format.

`--output FILE'
`-o FILE'
     Write output to FILE.

`--max-output `n''
     This option sets a limit on the number of bytes that will be
     generated when processing a file. Since OpenPGP supports various
     levels of compression, it is possible that the plaintext of a
     given message may be significantly larger than the original
     OpenPGP message. While GnuPG works properly with such messages,
     there is often a desire to set a maximum file size that will be
     generated before processing is forced to stop by the OS limits.
     Defaults to 0, which means "no limit".

`--import-options `parameters''
     This is a space or comma delimited string that gives options for
     importing keys. Options can be prepended with a `no-' to give the
     opposite meaning. The options are:

    import-local-sigs
          Allow importing key signatures marked as "local". This is not
           generally useful unless a shared keyring scheme is being
          used.    Defaults to no.

    import-keep-ownertrust
          Normally possible still existing ownertrust values of a key
          are   cleared if a key is imported.  This is in general
          desirable so that   a formerly deleted key does not
          automatically gain an ownertrust   values merely due to
          import.  On the other hand it is sometimes   necessary to
          re-import a trusted set of keys again but keeping   already
          assigned ownertrust values.  This can be achived by using
          this option.

    repair-pks-subkey-bug
          During import, attempt to repair the damage caused by the PKS
          keyserver   bug (pre version 0.9.6) that mangles keys with
          multiple subkeys. Note   that this cannot completely repair
          the damaged key as some crucial data   is removed by the
          keyserver, but it does at least give you back one   subkey.
          Defaults to no for regular `--import' and to yes for
          keyserver `--recv-keys'.

    merge-only
          During import, allow key updates to existing keys, but do not
          allow   any new keys to be imported. Defaults to no.

    import-clean
          After import, compact (remove all signatures except the
          self-signature) any user IDs from the new key that are not
          usable.    Then, remove any signatures from the new key that
          are not usable.    This includes signatures that were issued
          by keys that are not present   on the keyring. This option is
          the same as running the `--edit-key'   command "clean" after
          import. Defaults to no.

    import-minimal
          Import the smallest key possible. This removes all signatures
          except   the most recent self-signature on each user ID. This
          option is the   same as running the `--edit-key' command
          "minimize" after import.    Defaults to no.

`--export-options `parameters''
     This is a space or comma delimited string that gives options for
     exporting keys. Options can be prepended with a `no-' to give the
     opposite meaning. The options are:

    export-local-sigs
          Allow exporting key signatures marked as "local". This is not
           generally useful unless a shared keyring scheme is being
          used.    Defaults to no.

    export-attributes
          Include attribute user IDs (photo IDs) while exporting. This
          is   useful to export keys if they are going to be used by an
          OpenPGP   program that does not accept attribute user IDs.
          Defaults to yes.

    export-sensitive-revkeys
          Include designated revoker information that was marked as
          "sensitive". Defaults to no.

    export-clean
          Compact (remove all signatures from) user IDs on the key being
           exported if the user IDs are not usable. Also, do not export
          any   signatures that are not usable. This includes
          signatures that were   issued by keys that are not present on
          the keyring. This option is   the same as running the
          `--edit-key' command "clean" before export   except that the
          local copy of the key is not modified. Defaults to   no.

    export-minimal
          Export the smallest key possible. This removes all signatures
          except the   most recent self-signature on each user ID. This
          option is the same as   running the `--edit-key' command
          "minimize" before export except   that the local copy of the
          key is not modified. Defaults to no.

`--with-colons'
     Print key listings delimited by colons. Note that the output will
     be encoded in UTF-8 regardless of any `--display-charset' setting.
     This format is useful when GnuPG is called from scripts and other
     programs as it is easily machine parsed. The details of this
     format are documented in the file `doc/DETAILS', which is included
     in the GnuPG source distribution.

`--fixed-list-mode'
     Do not merge primary user ID and primary key in `--with-colon'
     listing mode and print all timestamps as seconds since 1970-01-01.
     Since GnuPG 2.0.10, this mode is always used and thus this option
     is obsolete; it does not harm to use it though.

`--legacy-list-mode'
     Revert to the pre-2.1 public key list mode.  This only affects the
     human readable output and not the machine interface (i.e.
     `--with-colons').  Note that the legacy format does not allow to
     convey suitable information for elliptic curves.

`--with-fingerprint'
     Same as the command `--fingerprint' but changes only the format of
     the output and may be used together with another command.

`--with-keygrip'
     Include the keygrip in the key listings.

`--with-secret'
     Include info about the presence of a secret key in public key
     listings done with `--with-colons'.



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4.2.4 OpenPGP protocol specific options.
----------------------------------------

`-t, --textmode'
`--no-textmode'
     Treat input files as text and store them in the OpenPGP canonical
     text form with standard "CRLF" line endings. This also sets the
     necessary flags to inform the recipient that the encrypted or
     signed data is text and may need its line endings converted back
     to whatever the local system uses. This option is useful when
     communicating between two platforms that have different line
     ending conventions (UNIX-like to Mac, Mac to Windows, etc).
     `--no-textmode' disables this option, and is the default.

`--force-v3-sigs'
`--no-force-v3-sigs'

`--force-v4-certs'
`--no-force-v4-certs'
     These options are obsolete and have no effect since GnuPG 2.1.

`--force-mdc'
     Force the use of encryption with a modification detection code.
     This is always used with the newer ciphers (those with a blocksize
     greater than 64 bits), or if all of the recipient keys indicate
     MDC support in their feature flags.

`--disable-mdc'
     Disable the use of the modification detection code. Note that by
     using this option, the encrypted message becomes vulnerable to a
     message modification attack.

`--personal-cipher-preferences `string''
     Set the list of personal cipher preferences to `string'.  Use
     `gpg2 --version' to get a list of available algorithms, and use
     `none' to set no preference at all.  This allows the user to
     safely override the algorithm chosen by the recipient key
     preferences, as GPG will only select an algorithm that is usable by
     all recipients.  The most highly ranked cipher in this list is also
     used for the `--symmetric' encryption command.

`--personal-digest-preferences `string''
     Set the list of personal digest preferences to `string'.  Use
     `gpg2 --version' to get a list of available algorithms, and use
     `none' to set no preference at all.  This allows the user to
     safely override the algorithm chosen by the recipient key
     preferences, as GPG will only select an algorithm that is usable by
     all recipients.  The most highly ranked digest algorithm in this
     list is also used when signing without encryption (e.g.
     `--clearsign' or `--sign').

`--personal-compress-preferences `string''
     Set the list of personal compression preferences to `string'.  Use
     `gpg2 --version' to get a list of available algorithms, and use
     `none' to set no preference at all.  This allows the user to
     safely override the algorithm chosen by the recipient key
     preferences, as GPG will only select an algorithm that is usable
     by all recipients.  The most highly ranked compression algorithm
     in this list is also used when there are no recipient keys to
     consider (e.g. `--symmetric').

`--s2k-cipher-algo `name''
     Use `name' as the cipher algorithm used to protect secret keys.
     The default cipher is AES128. This cipher is also used for
     conventional encryption if `--personal-cipher-preferences' and
     `--cipher-algo' is not given.

`--s2k-digest-algo `name''
     Use `name' as the digest algorithm used to mangle the passphrases.
     The default algorithm is SHA-1.

`--s2k-mode `n''
     Selects how passphrases are mangled. If `n' is 0 a plain
     passphrase (which is not recommended) will be used, a 1 adds a
     salt to the passphrase and a 3 (the default) iterates the whole
     process a number of times (see -s2k-count).  Unless `--rfc1991' is
     used, this mode is also used for conventional encryption.

`--s2k-count `n''
     Specify how many times the passphrase mangling is repeated.  This
     value may range between 1024 and 65011712 inclusive.  The default
     is inquired from gpg-agent.  Note that not all values in the
     1024-65011712 range are legal and if an illegal value is selected,
     GnuPG will round up to the nearest legal value.  This option is
     only meaningful if `--s2k-mode' is 3.



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4.2.5 Compliance options
------------------------

These options control what GnuPG is compliant to. Only one of these
options may be active at a time. Note that the default setting of this
is nearly always the correct one. See the INTEROPERABILITY WITH OTHER
OPENPGP PROGRAMS section below before using one of these options.

`--gnupg'
     Use standard GnuPG behavior. This is essentially OpenPGP behavior
     (see `--openpgp'), but with some additional workarounds for common
     compatibility problems in different versions of PGP. This is the
     default option, so it is not generally needed, but it may be
     useful to override a different compliance option in the gpg.conf
     file.

`--openpgp'
     Reset all packet, cipher and digest options to strict OpenPGP
     behavior. Use this option to reset all previous options like
     `--s2k-*', `--cipher-algo', `--digest-algo' and `--compress-algo'
     to OpenPGP compliant values. All PGP workarounds are disabled.

`--rfc4880'
     Reset all packet, cipher and digest options to strict RFC-4880
     behavior. Note that this is currently the same thing as
     `--openpgp'.

`--rfc2440'
     Reset all packet, cipher and digest options to strict RFC-2440
     behavior.

`--rfc1991'
     Try to be more RFC-1991 (PGP 2.x) compliant.  This option is
     deprecated will be removed in GnuPG 2.1.

`--pgp2'
     Set up all options to be as PGP 2.x compliant as possible, and
     warn if an action is taken (e.g. encrypting to a non-RSA key) that
     will create a message that PGP 2.x will not be able to handle.
     Note that `PGP 2.x' here means `MIT PGP 2.6.2'. There are other
     versions of PGP 2.x available, but the MIT release is a good
     common baseline.

     This option implies `--rfc1991 --disable-mdc --no-force-v4-certs
     --escape-from-lines  --force-v3-sigs --allow-weak-digest-algos
     --cipher-algo IDEA --digest-algo MD5 --compress-algo ZIP'.  It
     also disables `--textmode' when encrypting.

     This option is deprecated will be removed in GnuPG 2.1.  The reason
     for dropping PGP-2 support is that the PGP 2 format is not anymore
     considered safe (for example due to the use of the broken MD5
     algorithm).  Note that the decryption of PGP-2 created messages
     will continue to work.

`--pgp6'
     Set up all options to be as PGP 6 compliant as possible. This
     restricts you to the ciphers IDEA (if the IDEA plugin is
     installed), 3DES, and CAST5, the hashes MD5, SHA1 and RIPEMD160,
     and the compression algorithms none and ZIP. This also disables
     -throw-keyids, and making signatures with signing subkeys as PGP 6
     does not understand signatures made by signing subkeys.

     This option implies `--disable-mdc --escape-from-lines'.

`--pgp7'
     Set up all options to be as PGP 7 compliant as possible. This is
     identical to `--pgp6' except that MDCs are not disabled, and the
     list of allowable ciphers is expanded to add AES128, AES192,
     AES256, and TWOFISH.

`--pgp8'
     Set up all options to be as PGP 8 compliant as possible. PGP 8 is
     a lot closer to the OpenPGP standard than previous versions of
     PGP, so all this does is disable `--throw-keyids' and set
     `--escape-from-lines'.  All algorithms are allowed except for the
     SHA224, SHA384, and SHA512 digests.



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4.2.6 Doing things one usually doesn't want to do.
--------------------------------------------------

`-n'
`--dry-run'
     Don't make any changes (this is not completely implemented).

`--list-only'
     Changes the behaviour of some commands. This is like `--dry-run'
     but different in some cases. The semantic of this command may be
     extended in the future. Currently it only skips the actual
     decryption pass and therefore enables a fast listing of the
     encryption keys.

`-i'
`--interactive'
     Prompt before overwriting any files.

`--debug-level LEVEL'
     Select the debug level for investigating problems. LEVEL may be a
     numeric value or by a keyword:

    `none'
          No debugging at all.  A value of less than 1 may be used
          instead of   the keyword.

    `basic'
          Some basic debug messages.  A value between 1 and 2 may be
          used   instead of the keyword.

    `advanced'
          More verbose debug messages.  A value between 3 and 5 may be
          used   instead of the keyword.

    `expert'
          Even more detailed messages.  A value between 6 and 8 may be
          used   instead of the keyword.

    `guru'
          All of the debug messages you can get. A value greater than 8
          may be   used instead of the keyword.  The creation of hash
          tracing files is   only enabled if the keyword is used.

     How these messages are mapped to the actual debugging flags is not
     specified and may change with newer releases of this program. They
     are however carefully selected to best aid in debugging.

`--debug FLAGS'
     Set debugging flags. All flags are or-ed and FLAGS may be given in
     C syntax (e.g. 0x0042).

`--debug-all'
     Set all useful debugging flags.

`--faked-system-time EPOCH'
     This option is only useful for testing; it sets the system time
     back or forth to EPOCH which is the number of seconds elapsed
     since the year 1970.  Alternatively EPOCH may be given as a full
     ISO time string (e.g. "20070924T154812").

`--enable-progress-filter'
     Enable certain PROGRESS status outputs. This option allows
     frontends to display a progress indicator while gpg is processing
     larger files.  There is a slight performance overhead using it.

`--status-fd `n''
     Write special status strings to the file descriptor `n'.  See the
     file DETAILS in the documentation for a listing of them.

`--status-file `file''
     Same as `--status-fd', except the status data is written to file
     `file'.

`--logger-fd `n''
     Write log output to file descriptor `n' and not to STDERR.

`--log-file `file''
`--logger-file `file''
     Same as `--logger-fd', except the logger data is written to file
     `file'.  Note that `--log-file' is only implemented for GnuPG-2.

`--attribute-fd `n''
     Write attribute subpackets to the file descriptor `n'. This is most
     useful for use with `--status-fd', since the status messages are
     needed to separate out the various subpackets from the stream
     delivered to the file descriptor.

`--attribute-file `file''
     Same as `--attribute-fd', except the attribute data is written to
     file `file'.

`--comment `string''
`--no-comments'
     Use `string' as a comment string in clear text signatures and ASCII
     armored messages or keys (see `--armor'). The default behavior is
     not to use a comment string. `--comment' may be repeated multiple
     times to get multiple comment strings. `--no-comments' removes all
     comments.  It is a good idea to keep the length of a single comment
     below 60 characters to avoid problems with mail programs wrapping
     such lines.  Note that comment lines, like all other header lines,
     are not protected by the signature.

`--emit-version'
`--no-emit-version'
     Force inclusion of the version string in ASCII armored output.  If
     given once only the name of the program and the major number is
     emitted (default), given twice the minor is also emitted, given
     triple the micro is added, and given quad an operating system
     identification is also emitted.  `--no-emit-version' disables the
     version line.

`--sig-notation `name=value''
`--cert-notation `name=value''
`-N, --set-notation `name=value''
     Put the name value pair into the signature as notation data.
     `name' must consist only of printable characters or spaces, and
     must contain a '@' character in the form keyname@domain.example.com
     (substituting the appropriate keyname and domain name, of course).
     This is to help prevent pollution of the IETF reserved notation
     namespace. The `--expert' flag overrides the '@' check. `value'
     may be any printable string; it will be encoded in UTF8, so you
     should check that your `--display-charset' is set correctly. If
     you prefix `name' with an exclamation mark (!), the notation data
     will be flagged as critical (rfc4880:5.2.3.16). `--sig-notation'
     sets a notation for data signatures. `--cert-notation' sets a
     notation for key signatures (certifications). `--set-notation'
     sets both.

     There are special codes that may be used in notation names. "%k"
     will be expanded into the key ID of the key being signed, "%K"
     into the long key ID of the key being signed, "%f" into the
     fingerprint of the key being signed, "%s" into the key ID of the
     key making the signature, "%S" into the long key ID of the key
     making the signature, "%g" into the fingerprint of the key making
     the signature (which might be a subkey), "%p" into the fingerprint
     of the primary key of the key making the signature, "%c" into the
     signature count from the OpenPGP smartcard, and "%%" results in a
     single "%". %k, %K, and %f are only meaningful when making a key
     signature (certification), and %c is only meaningful when using
     the OpenPGP smartcard.

`--sig-policy-url `string''
`--cert-policy-url `string''
`--set-policy-url `string''
     Use `string' as a Policy URL for signatures (rfc4880:5.2.3.20).  If
     you prefix it with an exclamation mark (!), the policy URL packet
     will be flagged as critical. `--sig-policy-url' sets a policy url
     for data signatures. `--cert-policy-url' sets a policy url for key
     signatures (certifications). `--set-policy-url' sets both.

     The same %-expandos used for notation data are available here as
     well.

`--sig-keyserver-url `string''
     Use `string' as a preferred keyserver URL for data signatures. If
     you prefix it with an exclamation mark (!), the keyserver URL
     packet will be flagged as critical.

     The same %-expandos used for notation data are available here as
     well.

`--set-filename `string''
     Use `string' as the filename which is stored inside messages.
     This overrides the default, which is to use the actual filename of
     the file being encrypted.

`--for-your-eyes-only'
`--no-for-your-eyes-only'
     Set the `for your eyes only' flag in the message. This causes
     GnuPG to refuse to save the file unless the `--output' option is
     given, and PGP to use a "secure viewer" with a claimed
     Tempest-resistant font to display the message. This option
     overrides `--set-filename'.  `--no-for-your-eyes-only' disables
     this option.

`--use-embedded-filename'
`--no-use-embedded-filename'
     Try to create a file with a name as embedded in the data. This can
     be a dangerous option as it allows to overwrite files. Defaults to
     no.

`--cipher-algo `name''
     Use `name' as cipher algorithm. Running the program with the
     command `--version' yields a list of supported algorithms. If this
     is not used the cipher algorithm is selected from the preferences
     stored with the key. In general, you do not want to use this
     option as it allows you to violate the OpenPGP standard.
     `--personal-cipher-preferences' is the safe way to accomplish the
     same thing.

`--digest-algo `name''
     Use `name' as the message digest algorithm. Running the program
     with the command `--version' yields a list of supported
     algorithms. In general, you do not want to use this option as it
     allows you to violate the OpenPGP standard.
     `--personal-digest-preferences' is the safe way to accomplish the
     same thing.

`--compress-algo `name''
     Use compression algorithm `name'. "zlib" is RFC-1950 ZLIB
     compression. "zip" is RFC-1951 ZIP compression which is used by
     PGP.  "bzip2" is a more modern compression scheme that can
     compress some things better than zip or zlib, but at the cost of
     more memory used during compression and decompression.
     "uncompressed" or "none" disables compression. If this option is
     not used, the default behavior is to examine the recipient key
     preferences to see which algorithms the recipient supports. If all
     else fails, ZIP is used for maximum compatibility.

     ZLIB may give better compression results than ZIP, as the
     compression window size is not limited to 8k. BZIP2 may give even
     better compression results than that, but will use a significantly
     larger amount of memory while compressing and decompressing. This
     may be significant in low memory situations. Note, however, that
     PGP (all versions) only supports ZIP compression. Using any
     algorithm other than ZIP or "none" will make the message
     unreadable with PGP. In general, you do not want to use this
     option as it allows you to violate the OpenPGP standard.
     `--personal-compress-preferences' is the safe way to accomplish
     the same thing.

`--cert-digest-algo `name''
     Use `name' as the message digest algorithm used when signing a
     key. Running the program with the command `--version' yields a
     list of supported algorithms. Be aware that if you choose an
     algorithm that GnuPG supports but other OpenPGP implementations do
     not, then some users will not be able to use the key signatures
     you make, or quite possibly your entire key.

`--disable-cipher-algo `name''
     Never allow the use of `name' as cipher algorithm.  The given name
     will not be checked so that a later loaded algorithm will still
     get disabled.

`--disable-pubkey-algo `name''
     Never allow the use of `name' as public key algorithm.  The given
     name will not be checked so that a later loaded algorithm will
     still get disabled.

`--throw-keyids'
`--no-throw-keyids'
     Do not put the recipient key IDs into encrypted messages. This
     helps to hide the receivers of the message and is a limited
     countermeasure against traffic analysis.(1)  On the receiving
     side, it may slow down the decryption process because all
     available secret keys must be tried.  `--no-throw-keyids' disables
     this option. This option is essentially the same as using
     `--hidden-recipient' for all recipients.

`--not-dash-escaped'
     This option changes the behavior of cleartext signatures so that
     they can be used for patch files. You should not send such an
     armored file via email because all spaces and line endings are
     hashed too. You can not use this option for data which has 5
     dashes at the beginning of a line, patch files don't have this. A
     special armor header line tells GnuPG about this cleartext
     signature option.

`--escape-from-lines'
`--no-escape-from-lines'
     Because some mailers change lines starting with "From " to ">From
     " it is good to handle such lines in a special way when creating
     cleartext signatures to prevent the mail system from breaking the
     signature. Note that all other PGP versions do it this way too.
     Enabled by default. `--no-escape-from-lines' disables this option.

`--passphrase-repeat `n''
     Specify how many times `gpg2' will request a new passphrase be
     repeated.  This is useful for helping memorize a passphrase.
     Defaults to 1 repetition.

`--passphrase-fd `n''
     Read the passphrase from file descriptor `n'. Only the first line
     will be read from file descriptor `n'. If you use 0 for `n', the
     passphrase will be read from STDIN. This can only be used if only
     one passphrase is supplied.

     Note that this passphrase is only used if the option `--batch' has
     also been given.  This is different from GnuPG version 1.x.

`--passphrase-file `file''
     Read the passphrase from file `file'. Only the first line will be
     read from file `file'. This can only be used if only one
     passphrase is supplied. Obviously, a passphrase stored in a file is
     of questionable security if other users can read this file. Don't
     use this option if you can avoid it.  Note that this passphrase is
     only used if the option `--batch' has also been given.  This is
     different from GnuPG version 1.x.

`--passphrase `string''
     Use `string' as the passphrase. This can only be used if only one
     passphrase is supplied. Obviously, this is of very questionable
     security on a multi-user system. Don't use this option if you can
     avoid it.  Note that this passphrase is only used if the option
     `--batch' has also been given.  This is different from GnuPG
     version 1.x.

`--pinentry-mode `mode''
     Set the pinentry mode to `mode'.  Allowed values for `mode' are:
    default
          Use the default of the agent, which is `ask'.

    ask
          Force the use of the Pinentry.

    cancel
          Emulate use of Pinentry's cancel button.

    error
          Return a Pinentry error ("No Pinentry").

    loopback
          Redirect Pinentry queries to the caller.  Note that in
          contrast to   Pinentry the user is not prompted again if he
          enters a bad password.

`--command-fd `n''
     This is a replacement for the deprecated shared-memory IPC mode.
     If this option is enabled, user input on questions is not expected
     from the TTY but from the given file descriptor. It should be used
     together with `--status-fd'. See the file doc/DETAILS in the source
     distribution for details on how to use it.

`--command-file `file''
     Same as `--command-fd', except the commands are read out of file
     `file'

`--allow-non-selfsigned-uid'
`--no-allow-non-selfsigned-uid'
     Allow the import and use of keys with user IDs which are not
     self-signed. This is not recommended, as a non self-signed user ID
     is trivial to forge. `--no-allow-non-selfsigned-uid' disables.

`--allow-freeform-uid'
     Disable all checks on the form of the user ID while generating a
     new one. This option should only be used in very special
     environments as it does not ensure the de-facto standard format of
     user IDs.

`--ignore-time-conflict'
     GnuPG normally checks that the timestamps associated with keys and
     signatures have plausible values. However, sometimes a signature
     seems to be older than the key due to clock problems. This option
     makes these checks just a warning. See also `--ignore-valid-from'
     for timestamp issues on subkeys.

`--ignore-valid-from'
     GnuPG normally does not select and use subkeys created in the
     future.  This option allows the use of such keys and thus exhibits
     the pre-1.0.7 behaviour. You should not use this option unless
     there is some clock problem. See also `--ignore-time-conflict' for
     timestamp issues with signatures.

`--ignore-crc-error'
     The ASCII armor used by OpenPGP is protected by a CRC checksum
     against transmission errors. Occasionally the CRC gets mangled
     somewhere on the transmission channel but the actual content
     (which is protected by the OpenPGP protocol anyway) is still okay.
     This option allows GnuPG to ignore CRC errors.

`--ignore-mdc-error'
     This option changes a MDC integrity protection failure into a
     warning.  This can be useful if a message is partially corrupt,
     but it is necessary to get as much data as possible out of the
     corrupt message.  However, be aware that a MDC protection failure
     may also mean that the message was tampered with intentionally by
     an attacker.

`--allow-weak-digest-algos'
     Signatures made with the broken MD5 algorithm are normally rejected
     with an "invalid digest algorithm" message.  This option allows the
     verification of signatures made with such weak algorithms.

`--no-default-keyring'
     Do not add the default keyrings to the list of keyrings. Note that
     GnuPG will not operate without any keyrings, so if you use this
     option and do not provide alternate keyrings via `--keyring' or
     `--secret-keyring', then GnuPG will still use the default public or
     secret keyrings.

`--skip-verify'
     Skip the signature verification step. This may be used to make the
     decryption faster if the signature verification is not needed.

`--with-key-data'
     Print key listings delimited by colons (like `--with-colons') and
     print the public key data.

`--fast-list-mode'
     Changes the output of the list commands to work faster; this is
     achieved by leaving some parts empty. Some applications don't need
     the user ID and the trust information given in the listings. By
     using this options they can get a faster listing. The exact
     behaviour of this option may change in future versions.  If you
     are missing some information, don't use this option.

`--no-literal'
     This is not for normal use. Use the source to see for what it
     might be useful.

`--set-filesize'
     This is not for normal use. Use the source to see for what it
     might be useful.

`--show-session-key'
     Display the session key used for one message. See
     `--override-session-key' for the counterpart of this option.

     We think that Key Escrow is a Bad Thing; however the user should
     have the freedom to decide whether to go to prison or to reveal
     the content of one specific message without compromising all
     messages ever encrypted for one secret key. DON'T USE IT UNLESS
     YOU ARE REALLY FORCED TO DO SO.

`--override-session-key `string''
     Don't use the public key but the session key `string'. The format
     of this string is the same as the one printed by
     `--show-session-key'. This option is normally not used but comes
     handy in case someone forces you to reveal the content of an
     encrypted message; using this option you can do this without
     handing out the secret key.

`--ask-sig-expire'
`--no-ask-sig-expire'
     When making a data signature, prompt for an expiration time. If
     this option is not specified, the expiration time set via
     `--default-sig-expire' is used. `--no-ask-sig-expire' disables
     this option.

`--default-sig-expire'
     The default expiration time to use for signature expiration. Valid
     values are "0" for no expiration, a number followed by the letter d
     (for days), w (for weeks), m (for months), or y (for years) (for
     example "2m" for two months, or "5y" for five years), or an
     absolute date in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to "0".

`--ask-cert-expire'
`--no-ask-cert-expire'
     When making a key signature, prompt for an expiration time. If this
     option is not specified, the expiration time set via
     `--default-cert-expire' is used. `--no-ask-cert-expire' disables
     this option.

`--default-cert-expire'
     The default expiration time to use for key signature expiration.
     Valid values are "0" for no expiration, a number followed by the
     letter d (for days), w (for weeks), m (for months), or y (for
     years) (for example "2m" for two months, or "5y" for five years),
     or an absolute date in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to "0".

`--allow-secret-key-import'
     This is an obsolete option and is not used anywhere.

`--allow-multiple-messages'

`--no-allow-multiple-messages'
     Allow processing of multiple OpenPGP messages contained in a
     single file or stream.  Some programs that call GPG are not
     prepared to deal with multiple messages being processed together,
     so this option defaults to no.  Note that versions of GPG prior to
     1.4.7 always allowed multiple messages.

     Warning: Do not use this option unless you need it as a temporary
     workaround!

`--enable-special-filenames'
     This options enables a mode in which filenames of the form `-&n',
     where n is a non-negative decimal number, refer to the file
     descriptor n and not to a file with that name.

`--no-expensive-trust-checks'
     Experimental use only.

`--preserve-permissions'
     Don't change the permissions of a secret keyring back to user
     read/write only. Use this option only if you really know what you
     are doing.

`--default-preference-list `string''
     Set the list of default preferences to `string'. This preference
     list is used for new keys and becomes the default for "setpref" in
     the edit menu.

`--default-keyserver-url `name''
     Set the default keyserver URL to `name'. This keyserver will be
     used as the keyserver URL when writing a new self-signature on a
     key, which includes key generation and changing preferences.

`--list-config'
     Display various internal configuration parameters of GnuPG. This
     option is intended for external programs that call GnuPG to
     perform tasks, and is thus not generally useful. See the file
     `doc/DETAILS' in the source distribution for the details of which
     configuration items may be listed. `--list-config' is only usable
     with `--with-colons' set.

`--gpgconf-list'
     This command is similar to `--list-config' but in general only
     internally used by the `gpgconf' tool.

`--gpgconf-test'
     This is more or less dummy action.  However it parses the
     configuration file and returns with failure if the configuration
     file would prevent `gpg' from startup.  Thus it may be used to run
     a syntax check on the configuration file.


   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) Using a little social engineering anyone who is able to decrypt
the message can check whether one of the other recipients is the one he
suspects.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Deprecated Options,  Prev: GPG Esoteric Options,  Up: GPG Options

4.2.7 Deprecated options
------------------------

`--show-photos'
`--no-show-photos'
     Causes `--list-keys', `--list-sigs', `--list-public-keys',
     `--list-secret-keys', and verifying a signature to also display
     the photo ID attached to the key, if any. See also
     `--photo-viewer'. These options are deprecated. Use
     `--list-options [no-]show-photos' and/or `--verify-options
     [no-]show-photos' instead.

`--show-keyring'
     Display the keyring name at the head of key listings to show which
     keyring a given key resides on. This option is deprecated: use
     `--list-options [no-]show-keyring' instead.

`--always-trust'
     Identical to `--trust-model always'. This option is deprecated.

`--show-notation'
`--no-show-notation'
     Show signature notations in the `--list-sigs' or `--check-sigs'
     listings as well as when verifying a signature with a notation in
     it. These options are deprecated. Use `--list-options
     [no-]show-notation' and/or `--verify-options [no-]show-notation'
     instead.

`--show-policy-url'
`--no-show-policy-url'
     Show policy URLs in the `--list-sigs' or `--check-sigs' listings
     as well as when verifying a signature with a policy URL in it.
     These options are deprecated. Use `--list-options
     [no-]show-policy-url' and/or `--verify-options
     [no-]show-policy-url' instead.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPG Configuration,  Next: GPG Examples,  Prev: GPG Options,  Up: Invoking GPG

4.3 Configuration files
=======================

There are a few configuration files to control certain aspects of
`gpg2''s operation. Unless noted, they are expected in the current home
directory (*note option --homedir::).

`gpg.conf'
     This is the standard configuration file read by `gpg2' on
     startup.  It may contain any valid long option; the leading two
     dashes   may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated.
     This default   name may be changed on the command line (*note
     gpg-option --options::).    You should backup this file.


   Note that on larger installations, it is useful to put predefined
files into the directory `/etc/skel/.gnupg/' so that newly created users
start up with a working configuration.  For existing users a small
helper script is provided to create these files (*note addgnupghome::).

   For internal purposes `gpg2' creates and maintains a few other
files; They all live in in the current home directory (*note option
--homedir::).  Only the `gpg2' may modify these files.

`~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg'
     The public keyring.  You should backup this file.

`~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg.lock'
     The lock file for the public keyring.

`~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx'
     The public keyring using a different format.  This file is sharred
      with `gpgsm'.  You should backup this file.

`~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx.lock'
     The lock file for `pubring.kbx'.

`~/.gnupg/secring.gpg'
     A secret keyring as used by GnuPG versions before 2.1.  It is not
     used by GnuPG 2.1 and later.

`~/.gnupg/.gpg-v21-migrated'
     File indicating that a migration to GnuPG 2.1 has taken place.

`~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg'
     The trust database.  There is no need to backup this file; it is
     better   to backup the ownertrust values (*note option
     --export-ownertrust::).

`~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg.lock'
     The lock file for the trust database.

`~/.gnupg/random_seed'
     A file used to preserve the state of the internal random pool.

`~/.gnupg/secring.gpg.lock'
     The lock file for the secret keyring.

`~/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d/'
     This is the directory where gpg stores pre-generated revocation
     certificates.  The file name corresponds to the OpenPGP
     fingerprint of   the respective key.  It is suggested to backup
     those certificates and   if the primary private key is not stored
     on the disk to move them to   an external storage device.  Anyone
     who can access theses files is   able to revoke the corresponding
     key.  You may want to print them out.    You should backup all
     files in this directory and take care to keep   this backup closed
     away.

`/usr[/local]/share/gnupg/options.skel'
     The skeleton options file.

`/usr[/local]/lib/gnupg/'
     Default location for extensions.


   Operation is further controlled by a few environment variables:

HOME
     Used to locate the default home directory.

GNUPGHOME
     If set directory used instead of "~/.gnupg".

GPG_AGENT_INFO
     This variable was used by GnuPG versions before 2.1

PINENTRY_USER_DATA
     This value is passed via gpg-agent to pinentry.  It is useful to
     convey   extra information to a custom pinentry.

COLUMNS
LINES
     Used to size some displays to the full size of the screen.

LANGUAGE
     Apart from its use by GNU, it is used in the W32 version to
     override the   language selection done through the Registry.  If
     used and set to a   valid and available language name (LANGID),
     the file with the   translation is loaded from

     `GPGDIR/gnupg.nls/LANGID.mo'.  Here GPGDIR is the   directory out
     of which the gpg binary has been loaded.  If it can't be   loaded
     the Registry is tried and as last resort the native Windows
     locale system is used.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPG Examples,  Next: Unattended Usage of GPG,  Prev: GPG Configuration,  Up: Invoking GPG

4.4 Examples
============

gpg -se -r `Bob' `file'
     sign and encrypt for user Bob

gpg -clearsign `file'
     make a clear text signature

gpg -sb `file'
     make a detached signature

gpg -u 0x12345678 -sb `file'
     make a detached signature with the key 0x12345678

gpg -list-keys `user_ID'
     show keys

gpg -fingerprint `user_ID'
     show fingerprint

gpg -verify `pgpfile'
gpg -verify `sigfile'
     Verify the signature of the file but do not output the data. The
     second form is used for detached signatures, where `sigfile' is
     the detached signature (either ASCII armored or binary) and are
     the signed data; if this is not given, the name of the file
     holding the signed data is constructed by cutting off the
     extension (".asc" or ".sig") of `sigfile' or by asking the user
     for the filename.

RETURN VALUE
************

The program returns 0 if everything was fine, 1 if at least a signature
was bad, and other error codes for fatal errors.

WARNINGS
********

Use a *good* password for your user account and a *good* passphrase to
protect your secret key. This passphrase is the weakest part of the
whole system. Programs to do dictionary attacks on your secret keyring
are very easy to write and so you should protect your "~/.gnupg/"
directory very well.

   Keep in mind that, if this program is used over a network (telnet),
it is *very* easy to spy out your passphrase!

   If you are going to verify detached signatures, make sure that the
program knows about it; either give both filenames on the command line
or use `-' to specify STDIN.

INTEROPERABILITY WITH OTHER OPENPGP PROGRAMS
********************************************

GnuPG tries to be a very flexible implementation of the OpenPGP
standard. In particular, GnuPG implements many of the optional parts of
the standard, such as the SHA-512 hash, and the ZLIB and BZIP2
compression algorithms. It is important to be aware that not all
OpenPGP programs implement these optional algorithms and that by
forcing their use via the `--cipher-algo', `--digest-algo',
`--cert-digest-algo', or `--compress-algo' options in GnuPG, it is
possible to create a perfectly valid OpenPGP message, but one that
cannot be read by the intended recipient.

   There are dozens of variations of OpenPGP programs available, and
each supports a slightly different subset of these optional algorithms.
For example, until recently, no (unhacked) version of PGP supported the
BLOWFISH cipher algorithm. A message using BLOWFISH simply could not be
read by a PGP user. By default, GnuPG uses the standard OpenPGP
preferences system that will always do the right thing and create
messages that are usable by all recipients, regardless of which OpenPGP
program they use. Only override this safe default if you really know
what you are doing.

   If you absolutely must override the safe default, or if the
preferences on a given key are invalid for some reason, you are far
better off using the `--pgp6', `--pgp7', or `--pgp8' options. These
options are safe as they do not force any particular algorithms in
violation of OpenPGP, but rather reduce the available algorithms to a
"PGP-safe" list.

BUGS
****

On older systems this program should be installed as setuid(root). This
is necessary to lock memory pages. Locking memory pages prevents the
operating system from writing memory pages (which may contain
passphrases or other sensitive material) to disk. If you get no warning
message about insecure memory your operating system supports locking
without being root. The program drops root privileges as soon as locked
memory is allocated.

   Note also that some systems (especially laptops) have the ability to
"suspend to disk" (also known as "safe sleep" or "hibernate").  This
writes all memory to disk before going into a low power or even powered
off mode.  Unless measures are taken in the operating system to protect
the saved memory, passphrases or other sensitive material may be
recoverable from it later.

   Before you report a bug you should first search the mailing list
archives for similar problems and second check whether such a bug has
already been reported to our bug tracker at http://bugs.gnupg.org .


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Unattended Usage of GPG,  Prev: GPG Examples,  Up: Invoking GPG

4.5 Unattended Usage
====================

`gpg' is often used as a backend engine by other software.  To help
with this a machine interface has been defined to have an unambiguous
way to do this.  The options `--status-fd' and `--batch' are almost
always required for this.

* Menu:

* Unattended GPG key generation::  Unattended key generation


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Unattended GPG key generation,  Up: Unattended Usage of GPG

4.5.1 Unattended key generation
-------------------------------

The command `--gen-key' may be used along with the option `--batch' for
unattended key generation.  The parameters are either read from stdin
or given as a file on the command line.  The format of the parameter
file is as follows:

   * Text only, line length is limited to about 1000 characters.

   * UTF-8 encoding must be used to specify non-ASCII characters.

   * Empty lines are ignored.

   * Leading and trailing while space is ignored.

   * A hash sign as the first non white space character indicates   a
     comment line.

   * Control statements are indicated by a leading percent sign, the
     arguments are separated by white space from the keyword.

   * Parameters are specified by a keyword, followed by a colon.
     Arguments   are separated by white space.

   *   The first parameter must be `Key-Type'; control statements may be
      placed anywhere.

   *   The order of the parameters does not matter except for `Key-Type'
      which must be the first parameter.  The parameters are only used
     for   the generated keyblock (primary and subkeys); parameters
     from previous   sets are not used.  Some syntactically checks may
     be performed.

   *   Key generation takes place when either the end of the parameter
     file   is reached, the next `Key-Type' parameter is encountered or
     at the   control statement `%commit' is encountered.

Control statements:

%echo TEXT
     Print TEXT as diagnostic.

%dry-run
     Suppress actual key generation (useful for syntax checking).

%commit
     Perform the key generation.  Note that an implicit commit is done
     at the next Key-Type parameter.

%pubring FILENAME
%secring FILENAME
     Do not write the key to the default or commandline given keyring
     but to FILENAME.  This must be given before the first commit to
     take place, duplicate specification of the same filename is
     ignored, the last filename before a commit is used.  The filename
     is used until a new filename is used (at commit points) and all
     keys are written to that file. If a new filename is given, this
     file is created (and overwrites an existing one).  For GnuPG
     versions prior to 2.1, both control statements must be given. For
     GnuPG 2.1 and later `%secring' is a no-op.

%ask-passphrase
%no-ask-passphrase
     This option is a no-op for GnuPG 2.1 and later.

%no-protection
     Since GnuPG version 2.1 it is not anymore possible to specify a
     passphrase for unattended key generation.  The passphrase command
     is simply ignored and `%ask-passpharse' is thus implicitly enabled.
     Using this option allows the creation of keys without any
     passphrase protection.  This option is mainly intended for
     regression tests.

%transient-key
     If given the keys are created using a faster and a somewhat less
     secure random number generator.  This option may be used for keys
     which are only used for a short time and do not require full
     cryptographic strength.  It takes only effect if used together with
     the control statement `%no-protection'.


General Parameters:

Key-Type: ALGO
     Starts a new parameter block by giving the type of the primary
     key. The algorithm must be capable of signing.  This is a required
     parameter.  ALGO may either be an OpenPGP algorithm number or a
     string with the algorithm name.  The special value `default' may
     be used for ALGO to create the default key type; in this case a
     `Key-Usage' shall not be given and `default' also be used for
     `Subkey-Type'.

Key-Length: NBITS
     The requested length of the generated key in bits.  The default is
     returned by running the command `gpg2 --gpgconf-list'.

Key-Grip: HEXSTRING
     This is optional and used to generate a CSR or certificate for an
     already existing key.  Key-Length will be ignored when given.

Key-Usage: USAGE-LIST
     Space or comma delimited list of key usages.  Allowed values are
     `encrypt', `sign', and `auth'.  This is used to generate the key
     flags.  Please make sure that the algorithm is capable of this
     usage.  Note that OpenPGP requires that all primary keys are
     capable of certification, so no matter what usage is given here,
     the `cert' flag will be on.  If no `Key-Usage' is specified and
     the `Key-Type' is not `default', all allowed usages for that
     particular algorithm are used; if it is not given but `default' is
     used the usage will be `sign'.

Subkey-Type: ALGO
     This generates a secondary key (subkey).  Currently only one subkey
     can be handled.  See also `Key-Type' above.

Subkey-Length: NBITS
     Length of the secondary key (subkey) in bits.  The default is
     returned by running the command `gpg2 --gpgconf-list'".

Subkey-Usage: USAGE-LIST
     Key usage lists for a subkey; similar to `Key-Usage'.

Passphrase: STRING
     If you want to specify a passphrase for the secret key, enter it
     here.	Default is not to use any passphrase.

Name-Real: NAME
Name-Comment: COMMENT
Name-Email: EMAIL
     The three parts of a user name.  Remember to use UTF-8 encoding
     here.  If you don't give any of them, no user ID is created.

Expire-Date: ISO-DATE|(NUMBER[d|w|m|y])
     Set the expiration date for the key (and the subkey).  It may
     either be entered in ISO date format (e.g. "20000815T145012") or
     as number of days, weeks, month or years after the creation date.
     The special notation "seconds=N" is also allowed to specify a
     number of seconds since creation.  Without a letter days are
     assumed.  Note that there is no check done on the overflow of the
     type used by OpenPGP for timestamps.  Thus you better make sure
     that the given value make sense.  Although OpenPGP works with time
     intervals, GnuPG uses an absolute value internally and thus the
     last year we can represent is 2105.

Creation-Date: ISO-DATE
     Set the creation date of the key as stored in the key information
     and which is also part of the fingerprint calculation.  Either a
     date like "1986-04-26" or a full timestamp like "19860426T042640"
     may be used.  The time is considered to be UTC.  The special
     notation "seconds=N" may be used to directly specify a the number
     of seconds since Epoch (Unix time).  If it is not given the
     current time is used.

Preferences: STRING
     Set the cipher, hash, and compression preference values for this
     key.  This expects the same type of string as the sub-command
     `setpref' in the `--edit-key' menu.

Revoker: ALGO:FPR [sensitive]
     Add a designated revoker to the generated key.  Algo is the public
     key algorithm of the designated revoker (i.e. RSA=1, DSA=17, etc.)
     FPR is the fingerprint of the designated revoker.  The optional
     `sensitive' flag marks the designated revoker as sensitive
     information.  Only v4 keys may be designated revokers.

Keyserver: STRING
     This is an optional parameter that specifies the preferred
     keyserver URL for the key.

Handle: STRING
     This is an optional parameter only used with the status lines
     KEY_CREATED and KEY_NOT_CREATED.  STRING may be up to 100
     characters and should not contain spaces.  It is useful for batch
     key generation to associate a key parameter block with a status
     line.


Here is an example on how to create a key:
     $ cat >foo <<EOF
          %echo Generating a basic OpenPGP key
          Key-Type: DSA
          Key-Length: 1024
          Subkey-Type: ELG-E
          Subkey-Length: 1024
          Name-Real: Joe Tester
          Name-Comment: with stupid passphrase
          Name-Email: joe@foo.bar
          Expire-Date: 0
          Passphrase: abc
          %pubring foo.pub
          %secring foo.sec
          # Do a commit here, so that we can later print "done" :-)
          %commit
          %echo done
     EOF
     $ gpg2 --batch --gen-key foo
      [...]
     $ gpg2 --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring ./foo.sec \
            --keyring ./foo.pub --list-secret-keys
     /home/wk/work/gnupg-stable/scratch/foo.sec
     ------------------------------------------
     sec  1024D/915A878D 2000-03-09 Joe Tester (with stupid passphrase) <joe@foo.bar>
     ssb  1024g/8F70E2C0 2000-03-09

If you want to create a key with the default algorithms you would use
these parameters:
          %echo Generating a default key
          Key-Type: default
          Subkey-Type: default
          Name-Real: Joe Tester
          Name-Comment: with stupid passphrase
          Name-Email: joe@foo.bar
          Expire-Date: 0
          Passphrase: abc
          %pubring foo.pub
          %secring foo.sec
          # Do a commit here, so that we can later print "done" :-)
          %commit
          %echo done


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5 Invoking GPGSM
****************

`gpgsm' is a tool similar to `gpg' to provide digital encryption and
signing services on X.509 certificates and the CMS protocol.  It is
mainly used as a backend for S/MIME mail processing.  `gpgsm' includes
a full featured certificate management and complies with all rules
defined for the German Sphinx project.

   *Note Option Index::, for an index to `GPGSM''s commands and options.

* Menu:

* GPGSM Commands::        List of all commands.
* GPGSM Options::         List of all options.
* GPGSM Configuration::   Configuration files.
* GPGSM Examples::        Some usage examples.

Developer information:
* Unattended Usage::      Using `gpgsm' from other programs.
* GPGSM Protocol::        The protocol the server mode uses.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM Commands,  Next: GPGSM Options,  Up: Invoking GPGSM

5.1 Commands
============

Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that
only one command is allowed.

* Menu:

* General GPGSM Commands::        Commands not specific to the functionality.
* Operational GPGSM Commands::    Commands to select the type of operation.
* Certificate Management::        How to manage certificates.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: General GPGSM Commands,  Next: Operational GPGSM Commands,  Up: GPGSM Commands

5.1.1 Commands not specific to the function
-------------------------------------------

`--version'
     Print the program version and licensing information.  Note that you
     cannot abbreviate this command.

`--help, -h'
     Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line
     options.  Note that you cannot abbreviate this command.

`--warranty'
     Print warranty information.  Note that you cannot abbreviate this
     command.

`--dump-options'
     Print a list of all available options and commands.  Note that you
     cannot abbreviate this command.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Operational GPGSM Commands,  Next: Certificate Management,  Prev: General GPGSM Commands,  Up: GPGSM Commands

5.1.2 Commands to select the type of operation
----------------------------------------------

`--encrypt'
     Perform an encryption.  The keys the data is encrypted too must be
     set using the option `--recipient'.

`--decrypt'
     Perform a decryption; the type of input is automatically
     determined.  It may either be in binary form or PEM encoded;
     automatic determination of base-64 encoding is not done.

`--sign'
     Create a digital signature.  The key used is either the fist one
     found in the keybox or those set with the `--local-user' option.

`--verify'
     Check a signature file for validity.  Depending on the arguments a
     detached signature may also be checked.

`--server'
     Run in server mode and wait for commands on the `stdin'.

`--call-dirmngr COMMAND [ARGS]'
     Behave as a Dirmngr client issuing the request COMMAND with the
     optional list of ARGS.  The output of the Dirmngr is printed
     stdout.  Please note that file names given as arguments should
     have an absolute file name (i.e. commencing with `/' because they
     are passed verbatim to the Dirmngr and the working directory of the
     Dirmngr might not be the same as the one of this client.
     Currently it is not possible to pass data via stdin to the
     Dirmngr.  COMMAND should not contain spaces.

     This is command is required for certain maintaining tasks of the
     dirmngr where a dirmngr must be able to call back to `gpgsm'.  See
     the Dirmngr manual for details.

`--call-protect-tool ARGUMENTS'
     Certain maintenance operations are done by an external program call
     `gpg-protect-tool'; this is usually not installed in a directory
     listed in the PATH variable.  This command provides a simple
     wrapper to access this tool.  ARGUMENTS are passed verbatim to
     this command; use `--help' to get a list of supported operations.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Certificate Management,  Prev: Operational GPGSM Commands,  Up: GPGSM Commands

5.1.3 How to manage the certificates and keys
---------------------------------------------

`--gen-key'
     This command allows the creation of a certificate signing request
     or a self-signed certificate.  It is commonly used along with the
     `--output' option to save the created CSR or certificate into a
     file.  If used with the `--batch' a parameter file is used to
     create the CSR or certificate and it is further possible to create
     non-self-signed certificates.

`--list-keys'
`-k'
     List all available certificates stored in the local key database.
     Note that the displayed data might be reformatted for better human
     readability and illegal characters are replaced by safe
     substitutes.

`--list-secret-keys'
`-K'
     List all available certificates for which a corresponding a secret
     key is available.

`--list-external-keys PATTERN'
     List certificates matching PATTERN using an external server.  This
     utilizes the `dirmngr' service.

`--list-chain'
     Same as `--list-keys' but also prints all keys making up the chain.

`--dump-cert'
`--dump-keys'
     List all available certificates stored in the local key database
     using a format useful mainly for debugging.

`--dump-chain'
     Same as `--dump-keys' but also prints all keys making up the chain.

`--dump-secret-keys'
     List all available certificates for which a corresponding a secret
     key is available using a format useful mainly for debugging.

`--dump-external-keys PATTERN'
     List certificates matching PATTERN using an external server.  This
     utilizes the `dirmngr' service.  It uses a format useful mainly
     for debugging.

`--keydb-clear-some-cert-flags'
     This is a debugging aid to reset certain flags in the key database
     which are used to cache certain certificate stati.  It is
     especially useful if a bad CRL or a weird running OCSP responder
     did accidentally revoke certificate.  There is no security issue
     with this command because `gpgsm' always make sure that the
     validity of a certificate is checked right before it is used.

`--delete-keys PATTERN'
     Delete the keys matching PATTERN.  Note that there is no command
     to delete the secret part of the key directly.  In case you need
     to do this, you should run the command `gpgsm --dump-secret-keys
     KEYID' before you delete the key, copy the string of hex-digits in
     the "keygrip" line and delete the file consisting of these
     hex-digits and the suffix `.key' from the `private-keys-v1.d'
     directory below our GnuPG home directory (usually `~/.gnupg').

`--export [PATTERN]'
     Export all certificates stored in the Keybox or those specified by
     the optional PATTERN. Those pattern consist of a list of user ids
     (*note how-to-specify-a-user-id::).  When used along with the
     `--armor' option a few informational lines are prepended before
     each block.  There is one limitation: As there is no commonly
     agreed upon way to pack more than one certificate into an ASN.1
     structure, the binary export (i.e. without using `armor') works
     only for the export of one certificate.  Thus it is required to
     specify a PATTERN which yields exactly one certificate.  Ephemeral
     certificate are only exported if all PATTERN are given as
     fingerprints or keygrips.

`--export-secret-key-p12 KEY-ID'
     Export the private key and the certificate identified by KEY-ID in
     a PKCS#12 format. When used with the `--armor' option a few
     informational lines are prepended to the output.  Note, that the
     PKCS#12 format is not very secure and this command is only
     provided if there is no other way to exchange the private key.
     (*note option --p12-charset::)

`--export-secret-key-p8 KEY-ID'
`--export-secret-key-raw KEY-ID'
     Export the private key of the certificate identified by KEY-ID
     with any encryption stripped.  The `...-raw' command exports in
     PKCS#1 format; the `...-p8' command exports in PKCS#8 format.
     When used with the `--armor' option a few informational lines are
     prepended to the output.  These commands are useful to prepare a
     key for use on a TLS server.

`--import [FILES]'
     Import the certificates from the PEM or binary encoded files as
     well as from signed-only messages.  This command may also be used
     to import a secret key from a PKCS#12 file.

`--learn-card'
     Read information about the private keys from the smartcard and
     import the certificates from there.  This command utilizes the
     `gpg-agent' and in turn the `scdaemon'.

`--passwd USER_ID'
     Change the passphrase of the private key belonging to the
     certificate specified as USER_ID.  Note, that changing the
     passphrase/PIN of a smartcard is not yet supported.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM Options,  Next: GPGSM Configuration,  Prev: GPGSM Commands,  Up: Invoking GPGSM

5.2 Option Summary
==================

`GPGSM' features a bunch of options to control the exact behaviour and
to change the default configuration.

* Menu:

* Configuration Options::   How to change the configuration.
* Certificate Options::     Certificate related options.
* Input and Output::        Input and Output.
* CMS Options::             How to change how the CMS is created.
* Esoteric Options::        Doing things one usually do not want to do.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Configuration Options,  Next: Certificate Options,  Up: GPGSM Options

5.2.1 How to change the configuration
-------------------------------------

These options are used to change the configuration and are usually found
in the option file.

`--options FILE'
     Reads configuration from FILE instead of from the default per-user
     configuration file.  The default configuration file is named
     `gpgsm.conf' and expected in the `.gnupg' directory directly below
     the home directory of the user.

`--homedir DIR'
     Set the name of the home directory to DIR. If this option is not
     used, the home directory defaults to `~/.gnupg'.  It is only
     recognized when given on the command line.  It also overrides any
     home directory stated through the environment variable `GNUPGHOME'
     or (on Windows systems) by means of the Registry entry
     HKCU\SOFTWARE\GNU\GNUPG:HOMEDIR.

     On Windows systems it is possible to install GnuPG as a portable
     application.  In this case only this command line option is
     considered, all other ways to set a home directory are ignored.

     To install GnuPG as a portable application under Windows, create an
     empty file name `gpgconf.ctl' in the same directory as the tool
     `gpgconf.exe'.  The root of the installation is than that
     directory; or, if `gpgconf.exe' has been installed directly below
     a directory named `bin', its parent directory.  You also need to
     make sure that the following directories exist and are writable:
     `ROOT/home' for the GnuPG home and `ROOT/var/cache/gnupg' for
     internal cache files.

`-v'

`--verbose'
     Outputs additional information while running.  You can increase
     the verbosity by giving several verbose commands to `gpgsm', such
     as `-vv'.

`--policy-file FILENAME'
     Change the default name of the policy file to FILENAME.

`--agent-program FILE'
     Specify an agent program to be used for secret key operations.  The
     default value is determined by running the command `gpgconf'.
     Note that the pipe symbol (`|') is used for a regression test
     suite hack and may thus not be used in the file name.

`--dirmngr-program FILE'
     Specify a dirmngr program to be used for CRL checks.  The default
     value is `/usr/sbin/dirmngr'.  This is only used as a fallback
     when the environment variable `DIRMNGR_INFO' is not set or a
     running dirmngr cannot be connected.

`--prefer-system-dirmngr'
     If a system wide `dirmngr' is running in daemon mode, first try to
     connect to this one.  Fallback to a pipe based server if this does
     not work.  Under Windows this option is ignored because the system
     dirmngr is always used.

`--disable-dirmngr'
     Entirely disable the use of the Dirmngr.

`--no-autostart'
     Do not start the gpg-agent or the dirmngr if it has not yet been
     started and its service is required.  This option is mostly useful
     on machines where the connection to gpg-agent has been redirected
     to another machines.  If dirmngr is required on the remote
     machine, it may be started manually using `gpgconf --launch
     dirmngr'.

`--no-secmem-warning'
     Do not print a warning when the so called "secure memory" cannot
     be used.

`--log-file FILE'
     When running in server mode, append all logging output to FILE.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Certificate Options,  Next: Input and Output,  Prev: Configuration Options,  Up: GPGSM Options

5.2.2 Certificate related options
---------------------------------

`--enable-policy-checks'
`--disable-policy-checks'
     By default policy checks are enabled.  These options may be used to
     change it.

`--enable-crl-checks'
`--disable-crl-checks'
     By default the CRL checks are enabled and the DirMngr is used to
     check for revoked certificates.  The disable option is most useful
     with an off-line network connection to suppress this check.

`--enable-trusted-cert-crl-check'
`--disable-trusted-cert-crl-check'
     By default the CRL for trusted root certificates are checked like
     for any other certificates.  This allows a CA to revoke its own
     certificates voluntary without the need of putting all ever issued
     certificates into a CRL.  The disable option may be used to switch
     this extra check off.  Due to the caching done by the Dirmngr,
     there will not be any noticeable performance gain.  Note, that
     this also disables possible OCSP checks for trusted root
     certificates.  A more specific way of disabling this check is by
     adding the "relax" keyword to the root CA line of the
     `trustlist.txt'

`--force-crl-refresh'
     Tell the dirmngr to reload the CRL for each request.  For better
     performance, the dirmngr will actually optimize this by suppressing
     the loading for short time intervals (e.g. 30 minutes). This option
     is useful to make sure that a fresh CRL is available for
     certificates hold in the keybox.  The suggested way of doing this
     is by using it along with the option `--with-validation' for a key
     listing command.  This option should not be used in a
     configuration file.

`--enable-ocsp'
`--disable-ocsp'
     By default OCSP checks are disabled.  The enable option may be
     used to enable OCSP checks via Dirmngr.  If CRL checks are also
     enabled, CRLs will be used as a fallback if for some reason an
     OCSP request will not succeed.  Note, that you have to allow OCSP
     requests in Dirmngr's configuration too (option `--allow-ocsp')
     and configure Dirmngr properly.  If you do not do so you will get
     the error code `Not supported'.

`--auto-issuer-key-retrieve'
     If a required certificate is missing while validating the chain of
     certificates, try to load that certificate from an external
     location.  This usually means that Dirmngr is employed to search
     for the certificate.  Note that this option makes a "web bug" like
     behavior possible.  LDAP server operators can see which keys you
     request, so by sending you a message signed by a brand new key
     (which you naturally will not have on your local keybox), the
     operator can tell both your IP address and the time when you
     verified the signature.

`--validation-model NAME'
     This option changes the default validation model.  The only
     possible values are "shell" (which is the default), "chain" which
     forces the use of the chain model and "steed" for a new simplified
     model.  The chain model is also used if an option in the
     `trustlist.txt' or an attribute of the certificate requests it.
     However the standard model (shell) is in that case always tried
     first.

`--ignore-cert-extension OID'
     Add OID to the list of ignored certificate extensions.  The OID is
     expected to be in dotted decimal form, like `2.5.29.3'.  This
     option may be used more than once.  Critical flagged certificate
     extensions matching one of the OIDs in the list are treated as if
     they are actually handled and thus the certificate will not be
     rejected due to an unknown critical extension.  Use this option
     with care because extensions are usually flagged as critical for a
     reason.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Input and Output,  Next: CMS Options,  Prev: Certificate Options,  Up: GPGSM Options

5.2.3 Input and Output
----------------------

`--armor'
`-a'
     Create PEM encoded output.  Default is binary output.

`--base64'
     Create Base-64 encoded output; i.e. PEM without the header lines.

`--assume-armor'
     Assume the input data is PEM encoded.  Default is to autodetect the
     encoding but this is may fail.

`--assume-base64'
     Assume the input data is plain base-64 encoded.

`--assume-binary'
     Assume the input data is binary encoded.

`--p12-charset NAME'
     `gpgsm' uses the UTF-8 encoding when encoding passphrases for
     PKCS#12 files.  This option may be used to force the passphrase to
     be encoded in the specified encoding NAME.  This is useful if the
     application used to import the key uses a different encoding and
     thus will not be able to import a file generated by `gpgsm'.
     Commonly used values for NAME are `Latin1' and `CP850'.  Note that
     `gpgsm' itself automagically imports any file with a passphrase
     encoded to the most commonly used encodings.

`--default-key USER_ID'
     Use USER_ID as the standard key for signing.  This key is used if
     no other key has been defined as a signing key.  Note, that the
     first `--local-users' option also sets this key if it has not yet
     been set; however `--default-key' always overrides this.

`--local-user USER_ID'

`-u USER_ID'
     Set the user(s) to be used for signing.  The default is the first
     secret key found in the database.

`--recipient NAME'
`-r'
     Encrypt to the user id NAME.  There are several ways a user id may
     be given (*note how-to-specify-a-user-id::).

`--output FILE'
`-o FILE'
     Write output to FILE.  The default is to write it to stdout.

`--with-key-data'
     Displays extra information with the `--list-keys' commands.
     Especially a line tagged `grp' is printed which tells you the
     keygrip of a key.  This string is for example used as the file
     name of the secret key.

`--with-validation'
     When doing a key listing, do a full validation check for each key
     and print the result.  This is usually a slow operation because it
     requires a CRL lookup and other operations.

     When used along with -import, a validation of the certificate to
     import is done and only imported if it succeeds the test.  Note
     that this does not affect an already available certificate in the
     DB.  This option is therefore useful to simply verify a
     certificate.

`--with-md5-fingerprint'
     For standard key listings, also print the MD5 fingerprint of the
     certificate.

`--with-keygrip'
     Include the keygrip in standard key listings.  Note that the
     keygrip is always listed in -with-colons mode.

`--with-secret'
     Include info about the presence of a secret key in public key
     listings done with `--with-colons'.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: CMS Options,  Next: Esoteric Options,  Prev: Input and Output,  Up: GPGSM Options

5.2.4 How to change how the CMS is created.
-------------------------------------------

`--include-certs N'
     Using N of -2 includes all certificate except for the root cert,
     -1 includes all certs, 0 does not include any certs, 1 includes
     only the signers cert and all other positive values include up to N
     certificates starting with the signer cert.  The default is -2.

`--cipher-algo OID'
     Use the cipher algorithm with the ASN.1 object identifier OID for
     encryption.  For convenience the strings `3DES', `AES' and
     `AES256' may be used instead of their OIDs.  The default is `3DES'
     (1.2.840.113549.3.7).

`--digest-algo `name''
     Use `name' as the message digest algorithm.  Usually this
     algorithm is deduced from the respective signing certificate.  This
     option forces the use of the given algorithm and may lead to severe
     interoperability problems.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Esoteric Options,  Prev: CMS Options,  Up: GPGSM Options

5.2.5 Doing things one usually do not want to do.
-------------------------------------------------

`--extra-digest-algo NAME'
     Sometimes signatures are broken in that they announce a different
     digest algorithm than actually used.  `gpgsm' uses a one-pass data
     processing model and thus needs to rely on the announced digest
     algorithms to properly hash the data.  As a workaround this option
     may be used to tell gpg to also hash the data using the algorithm
     NAME; this slows processing down a little bit but allows to verify
     such broken signatures.  If `gpgsm' prints an error like "digest
     algo 8 has not been enabled" you may want to try this option, with
     `SHA256' for NAME.

`--faked-system-time EPOCH'
     This option is only useful for testing; it sets the system time
     back or forth to EPOCH which is the number of seconds elapsed
     since the year 1970.  Alternatively EPOCH may be given as a full
     ISO time string (e.g. "20070924T154812").

`--with-ephemeral-keys'
     Include ephemeral flagged keys in the output of key listings.  Note
     that they are included anyway if the key specification for a
     listing is given as fingerprint or keygrip.

`--debug-level LEVEL'
     Select the debug level for investigating problems. LEVEL may be a
     numeric value or by a keyword:

    `none'
          No debugging at all.  A value of less than 1 may be used
          instead of the keyword.

    `basic'
          Some basic debug messages.  A value between 1 and 2 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `advanced'
          More verbose debug messages.  A value between 3 and 5 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `expert'
          Even more detailed messages.  A value between 6 and 8 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `guru'
          All of the debug messages you can get. A value greater than 8
          may be used instead of the keyword.  The creation of hash
          tracing files is only enabled if the keyword is used.

     How these messages are mapped to the actual debugging flags is not
     specified and may change with newer releases of this program. They
     are however carefully selected to best aid in debugging.

`--debug FLAGS'
     This option is only useful for debugging and the behaviour may
     change at any time without notice; using `--debug-levels' is the
     preferred method to select the debug verbosity.  FLAGS are bit
     encoded and may be given in usual C-Syntax. The currently defined
     bits are:

    `0  (1)'
          X.509 or OpenPGP protocol related data

    `1  (2)'
          values of big number integers

    `2  (4)'
          low level crypto operations

    `5  (32)'
          memory allocation

    `6  (64)'
          caching

    `7  (128)'
          show memory statistics.

    `9  (512)'
          write hashed data to files named `dbgmd-000*'

    `10 (1024)'
          trace Assuan protocol

     Note, that all flags set using this option may get overridden by
     `--debug-level'.

`--debug-all'
     Same as `--debug=0xffffffff'

`--debug-allow-core-dump'
     Usually `gpgsm' tries to avoid dumping core by well written code
     and by disabling core dumps for security reasons.  However, bugs
     are pretty durable beasts and to squash them it is sometimes
     useful to have a core dump.  This option enables core dumps unless
     the Bad Thing happened before the option parsing.

`--debug-no-chain-validation'
     This is actually not a debugging option but only useful as such.
     It lets `gpgsm' bypass all certificate chain validation checks.

`--debug-ignore-expiration'
     This is actually not a debugging option but only useful as such.
     It lets `gpgsm' ignore all notAfter dates, this is used by the
     regression tests.

`--fixed-passphrase STRING'
     Supply the passphrase STRING to the gpg-protect-tool.  This option
     is only useful for the regression tests included with this package
     and may be revised or removed at any time without notice.

`--no-common-certs-import'
     Suppress the import of common certificates on keybox creation.


   All the long options may also be given in the configuration file
after stripping off the two leading dashes.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM Configuration,  Next: GPGSM Examples,  Prev: GPGSM Options,  Up: Invoking GPGSM

5.3 Configuration files
=======================

There are a few configuration files to control certain aspects of
`gpgsm''s operation. Unless noted, they are expected in the current
home directory (*note option --homedir::).

`gpgsm.conf'
     This is the standard configuration file read by `gpgsm' on
     startup.  It may contain any valid long option; the leading two
     dashes may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated.
     This default name may be changed on the command line (*note
     gpgsm-option --options::).  You should backup this file.

`policies.txt'
     This is a list of allowed CA policies.  This file should list the
     object identifiers of the policies line by line.  Empty lines and
     lines starting with a hash mark are ignored.  Policies missing in
     this file and not marked as critical in the certificate will print
     only a warning; certificates with policies marked as critical and
     not listed in this file will fail the signature verification.  You
     should backup this file.

     For example, to allow only the policy 2.289.9.9, the file should
     look like this:

          # Allowed policies
          2.289.9.9

`qualified.txt'
     This is the list of root certificates used for qualified
     certificates.  They are defined as certificates capable of
     creating legally binding signatures in the same way as handwritten
     signatures are.  Comments start with a hash mark and empty lines
     are ignored.  Lines do have a length limit but this is not a
     serious limitation as the format of the entries is fixed and
     checked by gpgsm: A non-comment line starts with optional
     whitespace, followed by exactly 40 hex character, white space and
     a lowercased 2 letter country code.  Additional data delimited with
     by a white space is current ignored but might late be used for
     other purposes.

     Note that even if a certificate is listed in this file, this does
     not mean that the certificate is trusted; in general the
     certificates listed in this file need to be listed also in
     `trustlist.txt'.

     This is a global file an installed in the data directory (e.g.
     `/usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt').  GnuPG installs a suitable file
     with root certificates as used in Germany.  As new Root-CA
     certificates may be issued over time, these entries may need to be
     updated; new distributions of this software should come with an
     updated list but it is still the responsibility of the
     Administrator to check that this list is correct.

     Everytime `gpgsm' uses a certificate for signing or verification
     this file will be consulted to check whether the certificate under
     question has ultimately been issued by one of these CAs.  If this
     is the case the user will be informed that the verified signature
     represents a legally binding ("qualified") signature.  When
     creating a signature using such a certificate an extra prompt will
     be issued to let the user confirm that such a legally binding
     signature shall really be created.

     Because this software has not yet been approved for use with such
     certificates, appropriate notices will be shown to indicate this
     fact.

`help.txt'
     This is plain text file with a few help entries used with
     `pinentry' as well as a large list of help items for `gpg' and
     `gpgsm'.  The standard file has English help texts; to install
     localized versions use filenames like `help.LL.txt' with LL
     denoting the locale.  GnuPG comes with a set of predefined help
     files in the data directory (e.g. `/usr/share/gnupg/help.de.txt')
     and allows overriding of any help item by help files stored in the
     system configuration directory (e.g. `/etc/gnupg/help.de.txt').
     For a reference of the help file's syntax, please see the installed
     `help.txt' file.

`com-certs.pem'
     This file is a collection of common certificates used to populated
     a newly created `pubring.kbx'.  An administrator may replace this
     file with a custom one.  The format is a concatenation of PEM
     encoded X.509 certificates.  This global file is installed in the
     data directory (e.g. `/usr/share/gnupg/com-certs.pem').


   Note that on larger installations, it is useful to put predefined
files into the directory `/etc/skel/.gnupg/' so that newly created users
start up with a working configuration.  For existing users a small
helper script is provided to create these files (*note addgnupghome::).

   For internal purposes gpgsm creates and maintains a few other files;
they all live in in the current home directory (*note option
--homedir::).  Only `gpgsm' may modify these files.

`pubring.kbx'
     This a database file storing the certificates as well as meta
     information.  For debugging purposes the tool `kbxutil' may be
     used to show the internal structure of this file.  You should
     backup this file.

`random_seed'
     This content of this file is used to maintain the internal state
     of the random number generator across invocations.  The same file
     is used by other programs of this software too.

`S.gpg-agent'
     If this file exists `gpgsm' will first try to connect to this
     socket for accessing `gpg-agent' before starting a new `gpg-agent'
     instance.  Under Windows this socket (which in reality be a plain
     file describing a regular TCP listening port) is the standard way
     of connecting the `gpg-agent'.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM Examples,  Next: Unattended Usage,  Prev: GPGSM Configuration,  Up: Invoking GPGSM

5.4 Examples
============

     $ gpgsm -er goo@bar.net <plaintext >ciphertext


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Unattended Usage,  Next: GPGSM Protocol,  Prev: GPGSM Examples,  Up: Invoking GPGSM

5.5 Unattended Usage
====================

`gpgsm' is often used as a backend engine by other software.  To help
with this a machine interface has been defined to have an unambiguous
way to do this.  This is most likely used with the `--server' command
but may also be used in the standard operation mode by using the
`--status-fd' option.

* Menu:

* Automated signature checking::  Automated signature checking.
* CSR and certificate creation::  CSR and certificate creation.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Automated signature checking,  Next: CSR and certificate creation,  Up: Unattended Usage

5.5.1 Automated signature checking
----------------------------------

It is very important to understand the semantics used with signature
verification.  Checking a signature is not as simple as it may sound and
so the operation is a bit complicated.  In most cases it is required to
look at several status lines.  Here is a table of all cases a signed
message may have:

The signature is valid
     This does mean that the signature has been successfully verified,
     the certificates are all sane.  However there are two subcases with
     important information:  One of the certificates may have expired
     or a signature of a message itself as expired.  It is a sound
     practise to consider such a signature still as valid but
     additional information should be displayed.  Depending on the
     subcase `gpgsm' will issue these status codes:
    signature valid and nothing did expire
          `GOODSIG', `VALIDSIG', `TRUST_FULLY'

    signature valid but at least one certificate has expired
          `EXPKEYSIG', `VALIDSIG', `TRUST_FULLY'

    signature valid but expired
          `EXPSIG', `VALIDSIG', `TRUST_FULLY'   Note, that this case is
          currently not implemented.

The signature is invalid
     This means that the signature verification failed (this is an
     indication of af a transfer error, a program error or tampering
     with the message).  `gpgsm' issues one of these status codes
     sequences:
    ``BADSIG''

    ``GOODSIG', `VALIDSIG' `TRUST_NEVER''

Error verifying a signature
     For some reason the signature could not be verified, i.e. it
     cannot be decided whether the signature is valid or invalid.  A
     common reason for this is a missing certificate.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: CSR and certificate creation,  Prev: Automated signature checking,  Up: Unattended Usage

5.5.2 CSR and certificate creation
----------------------------------

The command `--gen-key' may be used along with the option `--batch' to
either create a certificate signing request (CSR) or an X.509
certificate.  This is controlled by a parameter file; the format of
this file is as follows:

   * Text only, line length is limited to about 1000 characters.

   * UTF-8 encoding must be used to specify non-ASCII characters.

   * Empty lines are ignored.

   * Leading and trailing while space is ignored.

   * A hash sign as the first non white space character indicates a
     comment line.

   * Control statements are indicated by a leading percent sign, the
     arguments are separated by white space from the keyword.

   * Parameters are specified by a keyword, followed by a colon.
     Arguments are separated by white space.

   * The first parameter must be `Key-Type', control statements may be
     placed anywhere.

   * The order of the parameters does not matter except for `Key-Type'
     which must be the first parameter.  The parameters are only used
     for the generated CSR/certificate; parameters from previous sets
     are not used.  Some syntactically checks may be performed.

   * Key generation takes place when either the end of the parameter
     file is reached, the next `Key-Type' parameter is encountered or
     at the control statement `%commit' is encountered.

Control statements:

%echo TEXT
     Print TEXT as diagnostic.

%dry-run
     Suppress actual key generation (useful for syntax checking).

%commit
     Perform the key generation.  Note that an implicit commit is done
     at the next Key-Type parameter.


General Parameters:

Key-Type: ALGO
     Starts a new parameter block by giving the type of the primary
     key. The algorithm must be capable of signing.  This is a required
     parameter.  The only supported value for ALGO is `rsa'.

Key-Length: NBITS
     The requested length of a generated key in bits.  Defaults to 2048.

Key-Grip: HEXSTRING
     This is optional and used to generate a CSR or certificatet for an
     already existing key.  Key-Length will be ignored when given.

Key-Usage: USAGE-LIST
     Space or comma delimited list of key usage, allowed values are
     `encrypt', `sign' and `cert'.  This is used to generate the
     keyUsage extension.  Please make sure that the algorithm is
     capable of this usage.  Default is to allow encrypt and sign.

Name-DN: SUBJECT-NAME
     This is the Distinguished Name (DN) of the subject in RFC-2253
     format.

Name-Email: STRING
     This is an email address for the altSubjectName.  This parameter is
     optional but may occur several times to add several email
     addresses to a certificate.

Name-DNS: STRING
     The is an DNS name for the altSubjectName.  This parameter is
     optional but may occur several times to add several DNS names to a
     certificate.

Name-URI: STRING
     This is an URI for the altSubjectName.  This parameter is optional
     but may occur several times to add several URIs to a certificate.

Additional parameters used to create a certificate (in contrast to a
certificate signing request):

Serial: SN
     If this parameter is given an X.509 certificate will be generated.
     SN is expected to be a hex string representing an unsigned integer
     of arbitary length.  The special value `random' can be used to
     create a 64 bit random serial number.

Issuer-DN: ISSUER-NAME
     This is the DN name of the issuer in rfc2253 format.  If it is not
     set it will default to the subject DN and a special GnuPG
     extension will be included in the certificate to mark it as a
     standalone certificate.

Creation-Date: ISO-DATE
Not-Before: ISO-DATE
     Set the notBefore date of the certificate.  Either a date like
     `1986-04-26' or `1986-04-26 12:00' or a standard ISO timestamp
     like `19860426T042640' may be used.  The time is considered to be
     UTC.  If it is not given the current date is used.

Expire-Date: ISO-DATE
Not-After: ISO-DATE
     Set the notAfter date of the certificate.  Either a date like
     `2063-04-05' or `2063-04-05 17:00' or a standard ISO timestamp
     like `20630405T170000' may be used.  The time is considered to be
     UTC.  If it is not given a default value in the not too far future
     is used.

Signing-Key: KEYGRIP
     This gives the keygrip of the key used to sign the certificate.
     If it is not given a self-signed certificate will be created.  For
     compatibility with future versions, it is suggested to prefix the
     keygrip with a `&'.

Hash-Algo: HASH-ALGO
     Use HASH-ALGO for this CSR or certificate.  The supported hash
     algorithms are: `sha1', `sha256', `sha384' and `sha512'; they may
     also be specified with uppercase letters.  The default is `sha1'.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM Protocol,  Prev: Unattended Usage,  Up: Invoking GPGSM

5.6 The Protocol the Server Mode Uses.
======================================

Description of the protocol used to access `GPGSM'.  `GPGSM' does
implement the Assuan protocol and in addition provides a regular
command line interface which exhibits a full client to this protocol
(but uses internal linking).  To start `gpgsm' as a server the command
line the option `--server' must be used.  Additional options are
provided to select the communication method (i.e. the name of the
socket).

   We assume that the connection has already been established; see the
Assuan manual for details.

* Menu:

* GPGSM ENCRYPT::         Encrypting a message.
* GPGSM DECRYPT::         Decrypting a message.
* GPGSM SIGN::            Signing a message.
* GPGSM VERIFY::          Verifying a message.
* GPGSM GENKEY::          Generating a key.
* GPGSM LISTKEYS::        List available keys.
* GPGSM EXPORT::          Export certificates.
* GPGSM IMPORT::          Import certificates.
* GPGSM DELETE::          Delete certificates.
* GPGSM GETINFO::         Information about the process


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM ENCRYPT,  Next: GPGSM DECRYPT,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.1 Encrypting a Message
--------------------------

Before encryption can be done the recipient must be set using the
command:

       RECIPIENT USERID

   Set the recipient for the encryption.  USERID should be the internal
representation of the key; the server may accept any other way of
specification.  If this is a valid and trusted recipient the server
does respond with OK, otherwise the return is an ERR with the reason why
the recipient cannot be used, the encryption will then not be done for
this recipient.  If the policy is not to encrypt at all if not all
recipients are valid, the client has to take care of this.  All
`RECIPIENT' commands are cumulative until a `RESET' or an successful
`ENCRYPT' command.

       INPUT FD[=N] [--armor|--base64|--binary]

   Set the file descriptor for the message to be encrypted to N.
Obviously the pipe must be open at that point, the server establishes
its own end.  If the server returns an error the client should consider
this session failed.  If N is not given, this commands uses the last
file descriptor passed to the application.  *Note the assuan_sendfd
function: (assuan)fun-assuan_sendfd, on how to do descriptor passing.

   The `--armor' option may be used to advice the server that the input
data is in PEM format, `--base64' advices that a raw base-64 encoding
is used, `--binary' advices of raw binary input (BER).  If none of
these options is used, the server tries to figure out the used
encoding, but this may not always be correct.

       OUTPUT FD[=N] [--armor|--base64]

   Set the file descriptor to be used for the output (i.e. the encrypted
message). Obviously the pipe must be open at that point, the server
establishes its own end.  If the server returns an error he client
should consider this session failed.

   The option armor encodes the output in PEM format, the `--base64'
option applies just a base 64 encoding.  No option creates binary
output (BER).

   The actual encryption is done using the command

       ENCRYPT

   It takes the plaintext from the `INPUT' command, writes to the
ciphertext to the file descriptor set with the `OUTPUT' command, take
the recipients from all the recipients set so far.  If this command
fails the clients should try to delete all output currently done or
otherwise mark it as invalid.  `GPGSM' does ensure that there will not
be any security problem with leftover data on the output in this case.

   This command should in general not fail, as all necessary checks have
been done while setting the recipients.  The input and output pipes are
closed.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM DECRYPT,  Next: GPGSM SIGN,  Prev: GPGSM ENCRYPT,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.2 Decrypting a message
--------------------------

Input and output FDs are set the same way as in encryption, but `INPUT'
refers to the ciphertext and output to the plaintext. There is no need
to set recipients.  `GPGSM' automatically strips any S/MIME headers
from the input, so it is valid to pass an entire MIME part to the INPUT
pipe.

   The encryption is done by using the command

       DECRYPT

   It performs the decrypt operation after doing some check on the
internal state. (e.g. that all needed data has been set).  Because it
utilizes the GPG-Agent for the session key decryption, there is no need
to ask the client for a protecting passphrase - GpgAgent takes care of
this by requesting this from the user.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM SIGN,  Next: GPGSM VERIFY,  Prev: GPGSM DECRYPT,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.3 Signing a Message
-----------------------

Signing is usually done with these commands:

       INPUT FD[=N] [--armor|--base64|--binary]

   This tells `GPGSM' to read the data to sign from file descriptor N.

       OUTPUT FD[=M] [--armor|--base64]

   Write the output to file descriptor M.  If a detached signature is
requested, only the signature is written.

       SIGN [--detached]

   Sign the data set with the INPUT command and write it to the sink
set by OUTPUT.  With `--detached', a detached signature is created
(surprise).

   The key used for signing is the default one or the one specified in
the configuration file.  To get finer control over the keys, it is
possible to use the command

       SIGNER USERID

   to the signer's key.  USERID should be the internal representation
of the key; the server may accept any other way of specification.  If
this is a valid and trusted recipient the server does respond with OK,
otherwise the return is an ERR with the reason why the key cannot be
used, the signature will then not be created using this key.  If the
policy is not to sign at all if not all keys are valid, the client has
to take care of this.  All `SIGNER' commands are cumulative until a
`RESET' is done.  Note that a `SIGN' does not reset this list of
signers which is in contrats to the `RECIPIENT' command.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM VERIFY,  Next: GPGSM GENKEY,  Prev: GPGSM SIGN,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.4 Verifying a Message
-------------------------

To verify a mesage the command:

       VERIFY

   is used. It does a verify operation on the message send to the input
FD.  The result is written out using status lines.  If an output FD was
given, the signed text will be written to that.  If the signature is a
detached one, the server will inquire about the signed material and the
client must provide it.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM GENKEY,  Next: GPGSM LISTKEYS,  Prev: GPGSM VERIFY,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.5 Generating a Key
----------------------

This is used to generate a new keypair, store the secret part in the
PSE and the public key in the key database.  We will probably add
optional commands to allow the client to select whether a hardware
token is used to store the key.  Configuration options to `GPGSM' can
be used to restrict the use of this command.

       GENKEY

   `GPGSM' checks whether this command is allowed and then does an
INQUIRY to get the key parameters, the client should then send the key
parameters in the native format:

         S: INQUIRE KEY_PARAM native
         C: D foo:fgfgfg
         C: D bar
         C: END

   Please note that the server may send Status info lines while reading
the data lines from the client.  After this the key generation takes
place and the server eventually does send an ERR or OK response.
Status lines may be issued as a progress indicator.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM LISTKEYS,  Next: GPGSM EXPORT,  Prev: GPGSM GENKEY,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.6 List available keys
-------------------------

To list the keys in the internal database or using an external key
provider, the command:

       LISTKEYS  PATTERN

   is used.  To allow multiple patterns (which are ORed during the
search) quoting is required: Spaces are to be translated into "+" or
into "%20"; in turn this requires that the usual escape quoting rules
are done.

       LISTSECRETKEYS PATTERN

   Lists only the keys where a secret key is available.

   The list commands  commands are affected by the option

       OPTION list-mode=MODE

   where mode may be:
`0'
     Use default (which is usually the same as 1).

`1'
     List only the internal keys.

`2'
     List only the external keys.

`3'
     List internal and external keys.

   Note that options are valid for the entire session.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM EXPORT,  Next: GPGSM IMPORT,  Prev: GPGSM LISTKEYS,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.7 Export certificates
-------------------------

To export certificate from the internal key database the command:

       EXPORT [--data [--armor] [--base64]] [--] PATTERN

   is used.  To allow multiple patterns (which are ORed) quoting is
required: Spaces are to be translated into "+" or into "%20"; in turn
this requires that the usual escape quoting rules are done.

   If the `--data' option has not been given, the format of the output
depends on what was set with the OUTPUT command.  When using PEM
encoding a few informational lines are prepended.

   If the `--data' has been given, a target set via OUTPUT is ignored
and the data is returned inline using standard `D'-lines. This avoids
the need for an extra file descriptor.  In this case the options
`--armor' and `--base64' may be used in the same way as with the OUTPUT
command.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM IMPORT,  Next: GPGSM DELETE,  Prev: GPGSM EXPORT,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.8 Import certificates
-------------------------

To import certificates into the internal key database, the command

       IMPORT [--re-import]

   is used.  The data is expected on the file descriptor set with the
`INPUT' command.  Certain checks are performed on the certificate.
Note that the code will also handle PKCS#12 files and import private
keys; a helper program is used for that.

   With the option `--re-import' the input data is expected to a be a
linefeed separated list of fingerprints.  The command will re-import
the corresponding certificates; that is they are made permanent by
removing their ephemeral flag.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM DELETE,  Next: GPGSM GETINFO,  Prev: GPGSM IMPORT,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.9 Delete certificates
-------------------------

To delete a certificate the command

       DELKEYS PATTERN

   is used.  To allow multiple patterns (which are ORed) quoting is
required: Spaces are to be translated into "+" or into "%20"; in turn
this requires that the usual escape quoting rules are done.

   The certificates must be specified unambiguously otherwise an error
is returned.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: GPGSM GETINFO,  Prev: GPGSM DELETE,  Up: GPGSM Protocol

5.6.10 Return information about the process
-------------------------------------------

This is a multipurpose function to return a variety of information.

     GETINFO WHAT

   The value of WHAT specifies the kind of information returned:
`version'
     Return the version of the program.

`pid'
     Return the process id of the process.

`agent-check'
     Return success if the agent is running.

`cmd_has_option CMD OPT'
     Return success if the command CMD implements the option OPT.  The
     leading two dashes usually used with OPT shall not be given.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Invoking SCDAEMON,  Next: Specify a User ID,  Prev: Invoking GPGSM,  Up: Top

6 Invoking the SCDAEMON
***********************

The `scdaemon' is a daemon to manage smartcards.  It is usually invoked
by `gpg-agent' and in general not used directly.

   *Note Option Index::, for an index to `scdaemon''s commands and
options.

* Menu:

* Scdaemon Commands::      List of all commands.
* Scdaemon Options::       List of all options.
* Card applications::      Description of card applications.
* Scdaemon Configuration:: Configuration files.
* Scdaemon Examples::      Some usage examples.
* Scdaemon Protocol::      The protocol the daemon uses.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon Commands,  Next: Scdaemon Options,  Up: Invoking SCDAEMON

6.1 Commands
============

Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that
only one command is allowed.

`--version'
     Print the program version and licensing information.  Not that you
     can abbreviate this command.

`--help, -h'
     Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line
     options.  Not that you can abbreviate this command.

`--dump-options'
     Print a list of all available options and commands.  Not that you
     can abbreviate this command.

`--server'
     Run in server mode and wait for commands on the `stdin'.  This is
     default mode is to create a socket and listen for commands there.

`--multi-server'
     Run in server mode and wait for commands on the `stdin' as well as
     on an additional Unix Domain socket.  The server command `GETINFO'
     may be used to get the name of that extra socket.

`--daemon'
     Run the program in the background.  This option is required to
     prevent it from being accidentally running in the background.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon Options,  Next: Card applications,  Prev: Scdaemon Commands,  Up: Invoking SCDAEMON

6.2 Option Summary
==================

`--options FILE'
     Reads configuration from FILE instead of from the default per-user
     configuration file.  The default configuration file is named
     `scdaemon.conf' and expected in the `.gnupg' directory directly
     below the home directory of the user.

`--homedir DIR'
     Set the name of the home directory to DIR. If this option is not
     used, the home directory defaults to `~/.gnupg'.  It is only
     recognized when given on the command line.  It also overrides any
     home directory stated through the environment variable `GNUPGHOME'
     or (on Windows systems) by means of the Registry entry
     HKCU\SOFTWARE\GNU\GNUPG:HOMEDIR.

     On Windows systems it is possible to install GnuPG as a portable
     application.  In this case only this command line option is
     considered, all other ways to set a home directory are ignored.

     To install GnuPG as a portable application under Windows, create an
     empty file name `gpgconf.ctl' in the same directory as the tool
     `gpgconf.exe'.  The root of the installation is than that
     directory; or, if `gpgconf.exe' has been installed directly below
     a directory named `bin', its parent directory.  You also need to
     make sure that the following directories exist and are writable:
     `ROOT/home' for the GnuPG home and `ROOT/var/cache/gnupg' for
     internal cache files.

`-v'

`--verbose'
     Outputs additional information while running.  You can increase
     the verbosity by giving several verbose commands to `gpgsm', such
     as `-vv'.

`--debug-level LEVEL'
     Select the debug level for investigating problems.  LEVEL may be a
     numeric value or a keyword:

    `none'
          No debugging at all.  A value of less than 1 may be used
          instead of the keyword.

    `basic'
          Some basic debug messages.  A value between 1 and 2 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `advanced'
          More verbose debug messages.  A value between 3 and 5 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `expert'
          Even more detailed messages.  A value between 6 and 8 may be
          used instead of the keyword.

    `guru'
          All of the debug messages you can get. A value greater than 8
          may be used instead of the keyword.  The creation of hash
          tracing files is only enabled if the keyword is used.

     How these messages are mapped to the actual debugging flags is not
     specified and may change with newer releases of this program. They
     are however carefully selected to best aid in debugging.

          Note: All debugging options are subject to change and thus
          should not be used by any application program.  As the name
          says, they are only used as helpers to debug problems.

`--debug FLAGS'
     This option is only useful for debugging and the behaviour may
     change at any time without notice.  FLAGS are bit encoded and may
     be given in usual C-Syntax. The currently defined bits are:

    `0  (1)'
          command I/O

    `1  (2)'
          values of big number integers

    `2  (4)'
          low level crypto operations

    `5  (32)'
          memory allocation

    `6  (64)'
          caching

    `7  (128)'
          show memory statistics.

    `9  (512)'
          write hashed data to files named `dbgmd-000*'

    `10 (1024)'
          trace Assuan protocol.  See also option
          `--debug-assuan-log-cats'.

    `11 (2048)'
          trace APDU I/O to the card.  This may reveal sensitive data.

    `12 (4096)'
          trace some card reader related function calls.

`--debug-all'
     Same as `--debug=0xffffffff'

`--debug-wait N'
     When running in server mode, wait N seconds before entering the
     actual processing loop and print the pid.  This gives time to
     attach a debugger.

`--debug-ccid-driver'
     Enable debug output from the included CCID driver for smartcards.
     Using this option twice will also enable some tracing of the T=1
     protocol.  Note that this option may reveal sensitive data.

`--debug-disable-ticker'
     This option disables all ticker functions like checking for card
     insertions.

`--debug-allow-core-dump'
     For security reasons we won't create a core dump when the process
     aborts.  For debugging purposes it is sometimes better to allow
     core dump.  This options enables it and also changes the working
     directory to `/tmp' when running in `--server' mode.

`--debug-log-tid'
     This option appends a thread ID to the PID in the log output.

`--debug-assuan-log-cats CATS'
     Changes the active Libassuan logging categories to CATS.  The
     value for CATS is an unsigned integer given in usual C-Syntax.  A
     value of of 0 switches to a default category.  If this option is
     not used the categories are taken from the environment variable
     `ASSUAN_DEBUG'.  Note that this option has only an effect if the
     Assuan debug flag has also been with the option `--debug'.  For a
     list of categories see the Libassuan manual.

`--no-detach'
     Don't detach the process from the console.  This is mainly useful
     for debugging.

`--log-file FILE'
     Append all logging output to FILE.  This is very helpful in seeing
     what the agent actually does.

`--pcsc-driver LIBRARY'
     Use LIBRARY to access the smartcard reader.  The current default
     is `libpcsclite.so'.  Instead of using this option you might also
     want to install a symbolic link to the default file name (e.g.
     from `libpcsclite.so.1').

`--ctapi-driver LIBRARY'
     Use LIBRARY to access the smartcard reader.  The current default
     is `libtowitoko.so'.  Note that the use of this interface is
     deprecated; it may be removed in future releases.

`--disable-ccid'
     Disable the integrated support for CCID compliant readers.  This
     allows to fall back to one of the other drivers even if the
     internal CCID driver can handle the reader.  Note, that CCID
     support is only available if libusb was available at build time.

`--reader-port NUMBER_OR_STRING'
     This option may be used to specify the port of the card terminal.
     A value of 0 refers to the first serial device; add 32768 to
     access USB devices.  The default is 32768 (first USB device).
     PC/SC or CCID readers might need a string here; run the program in
     verbose mode to get a list of available readers.  The default is
     then the first reader found.

     To get a list of available CCID readers you may use this command:
            echo scd getinfo reader_list \
              | gpg-connect-agent --decode | awk '/^D/ {print $2}'

`--card-timeout N'
     If N is not 0 and no client is actively using the card, the card
     will be powered down after N seconds.  Powering down the card
     avoids a potential risk of damaging a card when used with certain
     cheap readers.  This also allows non Scdaemon aware applications to
     access the card.  The disadvantage of using a card timeout is that
     accessing the card takes longer and that the user needs to enter
     the PIN again after the next power up.

     Note that with the current version of Scdaemon the card is powered
     down immediately at the next timer tick for any value of N other
     than 0.

`--enable-pinpad-varlen'
     Please specify this option when the card reader supports variable
     length input for pinpad (default is no).  For known readers
     (listed in ccid-driver.c and apdu.c), this option is not needed.
     Note that if your card reader doesn't supports variable length
     input but you want to use it, you need to specify your pinpad
     request on your card.

`--disable-pinpad'
     Even if a card reader features a pinpad, do not try to use it.

`--deny-admin'
     This option disables the use of admin class commands for card
     applications where this is supported.  Currently we support it for
     the OpenPGP card. This commands is useful to inhibit accidental
     access to admin class command which could ultimately lock the card
     through wrong PIN numbers.  Note that GnuPG versions older than
     2.0.11 featured an `--allow-admin' command which was required to
     use such admin commands.  This option has no more effect today
     because the default is now to allow admin commands.

`--disable-application NAME'
     This option disables the use of the card application named NAME.
     This is mainly useful for debugging or if a application with lower
     priority should be used by default.


   All the long options may also be given in the configuration file
after stripping off the two leading dashes.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Card applications,  Next: Scdaemon Configuration,  Prev: Scdaemon Options,  Up: Invoking SCDAEMON

6.3 Description of card applications
====================================

`scdaemon' supports the card applications as described below.

* Menu:

* OpenPGP Card::          The OpenPGP card application
* NKS Card::              The Telesec NetKey card application
* DINSIG Card::           The DINSIG card application
* PKCS#15 Card::          The PKCS#15 card application
* Geldkarte Card::        The Geldkarte application
* SmartCard-HSM::         The SmartCard-HSM application
* Undefined Card::        The Undefined stub application


File: gnupg.info,  Node: OpenPGP Card,  Next: NKS Card,  Up: Card applications

6.3.1 The OpenPGP card application "openpgp"
--------------------------------------------

This application is currently only used by `gpg' but may in future also
be useful with `gpgsm'.  Version 1 and version 2 of the card is
supported.

The specifications for these cards are available at
`http://g10code.com/docs/openpgp-card-1.0.pdf' and
`http://g10code.com/docs/openpgp-card-2.0.pdf'.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: NKS Card,  Next: DINSIG Card,  Prev: OpenPGP Card,  Up: Card applications

6.3.2 The Telesec NetKey card "nks"
-----------------------------------

This is the main application of the Telesec cards as available in
Germany.  It is a superset of the German DINSIG card.  The card is used
by `gpgsm'.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: DINSIG Card,  Next: PKCS#15 Card,  Prev: NKS Card,  Up: Card applications

6.3.3 The DINSIG card application "dinsig"
------------------------------------------

This is an application as described in the German draft standard _DIN V
66291-1_.  It is intended to be used by cards supporting the German
signature law and its bylaws (SigG and SigV).


File: gnupg.info,  Node: PKCS#15 Card,  Next: Geldkarte Card,  Prev: DINSIG Card,  Up: Card applications

6.3.4 The PKCS#15 card application "p15"
----------------------------------------

This is common framework for smart card applications.  It is used by
`gpgsm'.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Geldkarte Card,  Next: SmartCard-HSM,  Prev: PKCS#15 Card,  Up: Card applications

6.3.5 The Geldkarte card application "geldkarte"
------------------------------------------------

This is a simple application to display information of a German
Geldkarte.  The Geldkarte is a small amount debit card application which
comes with almost all German banking cards.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: SmartCard-HSM,  Next: Undefined Card,  Prev: Geldkarte Card,  Up: Card applications

6.3.6 The SmartCard-HSM card application "sc-hsm"
-------------------------------------------------

This application adds read/only support for keys and certificates
stored on a SmartCard-HSM (http://www.smartcard-hsm.com).

   To generate keys and store certifiates you may use OpenSC
(https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/SmartCardHSM) or the tools from
OpenSCDP (http://www.openscdp.org).

   The SmartCard-HSM cards requires a card reader that supports Extended
Length APDUs.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Undefined Card,  Prev: SmartCard-HSM,  Up: Card applications

6.3.7 The Undefined card application "undefined"
------------------------------------------------

This is a stub application to allow the use of the APDU command even if
no supported application is found on the card.  This application is not
used automatically but must be explicitly requested using the SERIALNO
command.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon Configuration,  Next: Scdaemon Examples,  Prev: Card applications,  Up: Invoking SCDAEMON

6.4 Configuration files
=======================

There are a few configuration files to control certain aspects of
`scdaemons''s operation. Unless noted, they are expected in the current
home directory (*note option --homedir::).

`scdaemon.conf'
     This is the standard configuration file read by `scdaemon' on
     startup.  It may contain any valid long option; the leading two
     dashes may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated.
     This default name may be changed on the command line (*note option
     --options::).

`scd-event'
     If this file is present and executable, it will be called on veyer
     card reader's status changed. An example of this script is
     provided with the distribution

`reader_N.status'
     This file is created by `sdaemon' to let other applications now
     about reader status changes.  Its use is now deprecated in favor of
     `scd-event'.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon Examples,  Next: Scdaemon Protocol,  Prev: Scdaemon Configuration,  Up: Invoking SCDAEMON

6.5 Examples
============

     $ scdaemon --server -v


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon Protocol,  Prev: Scdaemon Examples,  Up: Invoking SCDAEMON

6.6 Scdaemon's Assuan Protocol
==============================

The SC-Daemon should be started by the system to provide access to
external tokens.  Using Smartcards on a multi-user system does not make
much sense expect for system services, but in this case no regular user
accounts are hosted on the machine.

   A client connects to the SC-Daemon by connecting to the socket named
`/var/run/scdaemon/socket', configuration information is read from
/ETC/SCDAEMON.CONF

   Each connection acts as one session, SC-Daemon takes care of
synchronizing access to a token between sessions.

* Menu:

* Scdaemon SERIALNO::     Return the serial number.
* Scdaemon LEARN::        Read all useful information from the card.
* Scdaemon READCERT::     Return a certificate.
* Scdaemon READKEY::      Return a public key.
* Scdaemon PKSIGN::       Signing data with a Smartcard.
* Scdaemon PKDECRYPT::    Decrypting data with a Smartcard.
* Scdaemon GETATTR::      Read an attribute's value.
* Scdaemon SETATTR::      Update an attribute's value.
* Scdaemon WRITEKEY::     Write a key to a card.
* Scdaemon GENKEY::       Generate a new key on-card.
* Scdaemon RANDOM::       Return random bytes generate on-card.
* Scdaemon PASSWD::       Change PINs.
* Scdaemon CHECKPIN::     Perform a VERIFY operation.
* Scdaemon RESTART::      Restart connection
* Scdaemon APDU::         Send a verbatim APDU to the card


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon SERIALNO,  Next: Scdaemon LEARN,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.1 Return the serial number
------------------------------

This command should be used to check for the presence of a card.  It is
special in that it can be used to reset the card.  Most other commands
will return an error when a card change has been detected and the use of
this function is therefore required.

   Background: We want to keep the client clear of handling card changes
between operations; i.e. the client can assume that all operations are
done on the same card unless he call this function.

       SERIALNO

   Return the serial number of the card using a status response like:

       S SERIALNO D27600000000000000000000 0

   The trailing 0 should be ignored for now, it is reserved for a future
extension.  The serial number is the hex encoded value identified by
the `0x5A' tag in the GDO file (FIX=0x2F02).


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon LEARN,  Next: Scdaemon READCERT,  Prev: Scdaemon SERIALNO,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.2 Read all useful information from the card
-----------------------------------------------

       LEARN [--force]

   Learn all useful information of the currently inserted card.  When
used without the force options, the command might do an INQUIRE like
this:

           INQUIRE KNOWNCARDP <hexstring_with_serialNumber> <timestamp>

   The client should just send an `END' if the processing should go on
or a `CANCEL' to force the function to terminate with a cancel error
message.  The response of this command is a list of status lines
formatted as this:

          S KEYPAIRINFO HEXSTRING_WITH_KEYGRIP HEXSTRING_WITH_ID

   If there is no certificate yet stored on the card a single "X" is
returned in HEXSTRING_WITH_KEYGRIP.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon READCERT,  Next: Scdaemon READKEY,  Prev: Scdaemon LEARN,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.3 Return a certificate
--------------------------

      READCERT HEXIFIED_CERTID|KEYID

   This function is used to read a certificate identified by
HEXIFIED_CERTID from the card.  With OpenPGP cards the keyid
`OpenPGP.3' may be used to rad the certificate of version 2 cards.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon READKEY,  Next: Scdaemon PKSIGN,  Prev: Scdaemon READCERT,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.4 Return a public key
-------------------------

     READKEY HEXIFIED_CERTID

   Return the public key for the given cert or key ID as an standard
S-Expression.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon PKSIGN,  Next: Scdaemon PKDECRYPT,  Prev: Scdaemon READKEY,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.5 Signing data with a Smartcard
-----------------------------------

To sign some data the caller should use the command

      SETDATA HEXSTRING

   to tell `scdaemon' about the data to be signed.  The data must be
given in hex notation.  The actual signing is done using the command

       PKSIGN KEYID

   where KEYID is the hexified ID of the key to be used.  The key id
may have been retrieved using the command `LEARN'.  If another hash
algorithm than SHA-1 is used, that algorithm may be given like:

       PKSIGN --hash=ALGONAME KEYID

   With ALGONAME are one of `sha1', `rmd160' or `md5'.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon PKDECRYPT,  Next: Scdaemon GETATTR,  Prev: Scdaemon PKSIGN,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.6 Decrypting data with a Smartcard
--------------------------------------

To decrypt some data the caller should use the command

      SETDATA HEXSTRING

   to tell `scdaemon' about the data to be decrypted.  The data must be
given in hex notation.  The actual decryption is then done using the
command

       PKDECRYPT KEYID

   where KEYID is the hexified ID of the key to be used.

   If the card is ware of the apdding format a status line with padding
information is send before the plaintext data.  The key for this status
line is `PADDING' with the only defined value being 0 and meaning
padding has been removed.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon GETATTR,  Next: Scdaemon SETATTR,  Prev: Scdaemon PKDECRYPT,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.7 Read an attribute's value.
--------------------------------

TO BE WRITTEN.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon SETATTR,  Next: Scdaemon WRITEKEY,  Prev: Scdaemon GETATTR,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.8 Update an attribute's value.
----------------------------------

TO BE WRITTEN.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon WRITEKEY,  Next: Scdaemon GENKEY,  Prev: Scdaemon SETATTR,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.9 Write a key to a card.
----------------------------

       WRITEKEY [--force] KEYID

   This command is used to store a secret key on a smartcard.  The
allowed keyids depend on the currently selected smartcard application.
The actual keydata is requested using the inquiry `KEYDATA' and need to
be provided without any protection.  With `--force' set an existing key
under this KEYID will get overwritten.  The key data is expected to be
the usual canonical encoded S-expression.

   A PIN will be requested in most cases.  This however depends on the
actual card application.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon GENKEY,  Next: Scdaemon RANDOM,  Prev: Scdaemon WRITEKEY,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.10 Generate a new key on-card.
----------------------------------

TO BE WRITTEN.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon RANDOM,  Next: Scdaemon PASSWD,  Prev: Scdaemon GENKEY,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.11 Return random bytes generate on-card.
--------------------------------------------

TO BE WRITTEN.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon PASSWD,  Next: Scdaemon CHECKPIN,  Prev: Scdaemon RANDOM,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.12 Change PINs.
-------------------

        PASSWD [--reset] [--nullpin] CHVNO

   Change the PIN or reset the retry counter of the card holder
verification vector number CHVNO.  The option `--nullpin' is used to
initialize the PIN of TCOS cards (6 byte NullPIN only).


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon CHECKPIN,  Next: Scdaemon RESTART,  Prev: Scdaemon PASSWD,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.13 Perform a VERIFY operation.
----------------------------------

       CHECKPIN IDSTR

   Perform a VERIFY operation without doing anything else.  This may be
used to initialize a the PIN cache earlier to long lasting operations.
Its use is highly application dependent:

*OpenPGP*
     Perform a simple verify operation for CHV1 and CHV2, so that
     further operations won't ask for CHV2 and it is possible to do a
     cheap check on the PIN: If there is something wrong with the PIN
     entry system, only the regular CHV will get blocked and not the
     dangerous CHV3.  IDSTR is the usual card's serial number in hex
     notation; an optional fingerprint part will get ignored.

     There is however a special mode if IDSTR is suffixed with the
     literal string `[CHV3]': In this case the Admin PIN is checked if
     and only if the retry counter is still at 3.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon RESTART,  Next: Scdaemon APDU,  Prev: Scdaemon CHECKPIN,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.14 Perform a RESTART operation.
-----------------------------------

       RESTART

   Restart the current connection; this is a kind of warm reset.  It
deletes the context used by this connection but does not actually reset
the card.

   This is used by gpg-agent to reuse a primary pipe connection and may
be used by clients to backup from a conflict in the serial command;
i.e. to select another application.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Scdaemon APDU,  Prev: Scdaemon RESTART,  Up: Scdaemon Protocol

6.6.15 Send a verbatim APDU to the card.
----------------------------------------

       APDU [--atr] [--more] [--exlen[=N]] [HEXSTRING]

   Send an APDU to the current reader.  This command bypasses the high
level functions and sends the data directly to the card.  HEXSTRING is
expected to be a proper APDU.  If HEXSTRING is not given no commands
are send to the card; However the command will implicitly check whether
the card is ready for use.

   Using the option `--atr' returns the ATR of the card as a status
message before any data like this:
          S CARD-ATR 3BFA1300FF813180450031C173C00100009000B1

   Using the option `--more' handles the card status word MORE_DATA
(61xx) and concatenate all responses to one block.

   Using the option `--exlen' the returned APDU may use extended length
up to N bytes.  If N is not given a default value is used (currently
4096).


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Specify a User ID,  Next: Helper Tools,  Prev: Invoking SCDAEMON,  Up: Top

7 How to Specify a User Id
**************************

There are different ways to specify a user ID to GnuPG.  Some of them
are only valid for `gpg' others are only good for `gpgsm'.  Here is the
entire list of ways to specify a key:

   * By key Id.  This format is deduced from the length of the string
     and its content or `0x' prefix. The key Id of an X.509 certificate
     are the low 64 bits of its SHA-1 fingerprint.  The use of key Ids
     is just a shortcut, for all automated processing the fingerprint
     should be used.

     When using `gpg' an exclamation mark (!) may be appended to force
     using the specified primary or secondary key and not to try and
     calculate which primary or secondary key to use.

     The last four lines of the example give the key ID in their long
     form as internally used by the OpenPGP protocol. You can see the
     long key ID using the option `--with-colons'.

          234567C4
          0F34E556E
          01347A56A
          0xAB123456

          234AABBCC34567C4
          0F323456784E56EAB
          01AB3FED1347A5612
          0x234AABBCC34567C4

   * By fingerprint.  This format is deduced from the length of the
     string and its content or the `0x' prefix.  Note, that only the 20
     byte version fingerprint is available with `gpgsm' (i.e. the SHA-1
     hash of the certificate).

     When using `gpg' an exclamation mark (!) may be appended to force
     using the specified primary or secondary key and not to try and
     calculate which primary or secondary key to use.

     The best way to specify a key Id is by using the fingerprint.  This
     avoids any ambiguities in case that there are duplicated key IDs.

          1234343434343434C434343434343434
          123434343434343C3434343434343734349A3434
          0E12343434343434343434EAB3484343434343434
          0xE12343434343434343434EAB3484343434343434

     `gpgsm' also accepts colons between each pair of hexadecimal
     digits because this is the de-facto standard on how to present
     X.509 fingerprints.  `gpg' also allows the use of the space
     separated SHA-1 fingerprint as printed by the key listing commands.

   * By exact match on OpenPGP user ID.  This is denoted by a leading
     equal sign. It does not make sense for X.509 certificates.

          =Heinrich Heine <heinrichh@uni-duesseldorf.de>

   * By exact match on an email address.  This is indicated by
     enclosing the email address in the usual way with left and right
     angles.

          <heinrichh@uni-duesseldorf.de>

   * By partial match on an email address.  This is indicated by
     prefixing the search string with an `@'.  This uses a substring
     search but considers only the mail address (i.e. inside the angle
     brackets).

          @heinrichh

   * By exact match on the subject's DN.  This is indicated by a
     leading slash, directly followed by the RFC-2253 encoded DN of the
     subject.  Note that you can't use the string printed by "gpgsm
     -list-keys" because that one as been reordered and modified for
     better readability; use -with-colons to print the raw (but standard
     escaped) RFC-2253 string

          /CN=Heinrich Heine,O=Poets,L=Paris,C=FR

   * By exact match on the issuer's DN.  This is indicated by a leading
     hash mark, directly followed by a slash and then directly followed
     by the rfc2253 encoded DN of the issuer.  This should return the
     Root cert of the issuer.  See note above.

          #/CN=Root Cert,O=Poets,L=Paris,C=FR

   * By exact match on serial number and issuer's DN.  This is
     indicated by a hash mark, followed by the hexadecimal
     representation of the serial number, then followed by a slash and
     the RFC-2253 encoded DN of the issuer. See note above.

          #4F03/CN=Root Cert,O=Poets,L=Paris,C=FR

   * By keygrip This is indicated by an ampersand followed by the 40
     hex digits of a keygrip.  `gpgsm' prints the keygrip when using
     the command `--dump-cert'.  It does not yet work for OpenPGP keys.

          &D75F22C3F86E355877348498CDC92BD21010A480

   * By substring match.  This is the default mode but applications may
     want to explicitly indicate this by putting the asterisk in front.
     Match is not case sensitive.

          Heine
          *Heine

   * . and + prefixes These prefixes are reserved for looking up mails
     anchored at the end and for a word search mode.  They are not yet
     implemented and using them is undefined.


   Please note that we have reused the hash mark identifier which was
used in old GnuPG versions to indicate the so called local-id.  It is
not anymore used and there should be no conflict when used with X.509
stuff.

   Using the RFC-2253 format of DNs has the drawback that it is not
possible to map them back to the original encoding, however we don't
have to do this because our key database stores this encoding as meta
data.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Helper Tools,  Next: Howtos,  Prev: Specify a User ID,  Up: Top

8 Helper Tools
**************

GnuPG comes with a couple of smaller tools:

* Menu:

* watchgnupg::            Read logs from a socket.
* gpgv::                  Verify OpenPGP signatures.
* addgnupghome::          Create .gnupg home directories.
* gpgconf::               Modify .gnupg home directories.
* applygnupgdefaults::    Run gpgconf for all users.
* gpgsm-gencert.sh::      Generate an X.509 certificate request.
* gpg-preset-passphrase:: Put a passphrase into the cache.
* gpg-connect-agent::     Communicate with a running agent.

* dirmngr-client::        How to use the Dirmngr client tool.
* gpgparsemail::          Parse a mail message into an annotated format
* symcryptrun::           Call a simple symmetric encryption tool.
* gpg-zip::               Encrypt or sign files into an archive.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: watchgnupg,  Next: gpgv,  Up: Helper Tools

8.1 Read logs from a socket
===========================

Most of the main utilities are able to write their log files to a Unix
Domain socket if configured that way.  `watchgnupg' is a simple
listener for such a socket.  It ameliorates the output with a time stamp
and makes sure that long lines are not interspersed with log output from
other utilities.  This tool is not available for Windows.

`watchgnupg' is commonly invoked as

     watchgnupg --force ~/.gnupg/S.log

This starts it on the current terminal for listening on the socket
`~/.gnupg/S.log'.

`watchgnupg' understands these options:

`--force'
     Delete an already existing socket file.

`--tcp N'
     Instead of reading from a local socket, listen for connects on TCP
     port N.

`--verbose'
     Enable extra informational output.

`--version'
     Print version of the program and exit.

`--help'
     Display a brief help page and exit.



Examples
********

     $ watchgnupg --force /home/foo/.gnupg/S.log

   This waits for connections on the local socket
`/home/foo/.gnupg/S.log' and shows all log entries.  To make this work
the option `log-file' needs to be used with all modules which logs are
to be shown.  The value for that option must be given with a special
prefix (e.g. in the conf file):

     log-file socket:///home/foo/.gnupg/S.log

   For debugging purposes it is also possible to do remote logging.
Take care if you use this feature because the information is send in the
clear over the network.  Use this syntax in the conf files:

     log-file tcp://192.168.1.1:4711

   You may use any port and not just 4711 as shown above; only IP
addresses are supported (v4 and v6) and no host names.  You need to
start `watchgnupg' with the `tcp' option.  Note that under Windows the
registry entry HKCU\SOFTWARE\GNU\GNUPG:DEFAULTLOGFILE can be used to
change the default log output from `stderr' to whatever is given by
that entry.  However the only useful entry is a TCP name for remote
debugging.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: gpgv,  Next: addgnupghome,  Prev: watchgnupg,  Up: Helper Tools

8.2 Verify OpenPGP signatures
=============================

   `gpgv2' is an OpenPGP signature verification tool.

   This program is actually a stripped-down version of `gpg' which is
only able to check signatures. It is somewhat smaller than the
fully-blown `gpg' and uses a different (and simpler) way to check that
the public keys used to make the signature are valid. There are no
configuration files and only a few options are implemented.

   `gpgv2' assumes that all keys in the keyring are trustworthy.  That
does also mean that it does not check for expired or revoked keys.

   By default a keyring named `trustedkeys.gpg' is used.  This default
keyring is assumed to be in the home directory of GnuPG, either the
default home directory or the one set by an option or an environment
variable.  The option `--keyring' may be used to specify a different
keyring or even multiple keyrings.



   `gpgv2' recognizes these options:

`--verbose'
`-v'
     Gives more information during processing. If used twice, the input
     data is listed in detail.

`--quiet'
`-q'
     Try to be as quiet as possible.

`--keyring FILE'
     Add FILE to the list of keyrings.  If FILE begins with a tilde and
     a slash, these are replaced by the HOME directory. If the filename
     does not contain a slash, it is assumed to be in the
     home-directory ("~/.gnupg" if -homedir is not used).

`--status-fd N'
     Write special status strings to the file descriptor N.  See the
     file DETAILS in the documentation for a listing of them.

`--logger-fd `n''
     Write log output to file descriptor `n' and not to stderr.

`--ignore-time-conflict'
     GnuPG normally checks that the timestamps associated with keys and
     signatures have plausible values. However, sometimes a signature
     seems to be older than the key due to clock problems. This option
     turns these checks into warnings.

`--homedir DIR'
     Set the name of the home directory to DIR. If this option is not
     used, the home directory defaults to `~/.gnupg'.  It is only
     recognized when given on the command line.  It also overrides any
     home directory stated through the environment variable `GNUPGHOME'
     or (on Windows systems) by means of the Registry entry
     HKCU\SOFTWARE\GNU\GNUPG:HOMEDIR.

     On Windows systems it is possible to install GnuPG as a portable
     application.  In this case only this command line option is
     considered, all other ways to set a home directory are ignored.

     To install GnuPG as a portable application under Windows, create an
     empty file name `gpgconf.ctl' in the same directory as the tool
     `gpgconf.exe'.  The root of the installation is than that
     directory; or, if `gpgconf.exe' has been installed directly below
     a directory named `bin', its parent directory.  You also need to
     make sure that the following directories exist and are writable:
     `ROOT/home' for the GnuPG home and `ROOT/var/cache/gnupg' for
     internal cache files.


   The program returns 0 if everything is fine, 1 if at least one
signature was bad, and other error codes for fatal errors.

8.2.1 Examples
--------------

gpgv2 `pgpfile'
gpgv2 `sigfile' [`datafile']
     Verify the signature of the file. The second form is used for
     detached signatures, where `sigfile' is the detached signature
     (either ASCII-armored or binary) and `datafile' contains the
     signed data; if `datafile' is "-" the signed data is expected on
     `stdin'; if `datafile' is not given the name of the file holding
     the signed data is constructed by cutting off the extension
     (".asc", ".sig" or ".sign") from `sigfile'.


8.2.2 Environment
-----------------

HOME
     Used to locate the default home directory.

GNUPGHOME
     If set directory used instead of "~/.gnupg".


8.2.3 FILES
-----------

~/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg
     The default keyring with the allowed keys.


   `gpg2'(1)


File: gnupg.info,  Node: addgnupghome,  Next: gpgconf,  Prev: gpgv,  Up: Helper Tools

8.3 Create .gnupg home directories.
===================================

If GnuPG is installed on a system with existing user accounts, it is
sometimes required to populate the GnuPG home directory with existing
files.  Especially a `trustlist.txt' and a keybox with some initial
certificates are often desired.  This scripts help to do this by
copying all files from `/etc/skel/.gnupg' to the home directories of
the accounts given on the command line.  It takes care not to overwrite
existing GnuPG home directories.

`addgnupghome' is invoked by root as:

     addgnupghome account1 account2 ... accountn


File: gnupg.info,  Node: gpgconf,  Next: applygnupgdefaults,  Prev: addgnupghome,  Up: Helper Tools

8.4 Modify .gnupg home directories.
===================================

The `gpgconf' is a utility to automatically and reasonable safely query
and modify configuration files in the `.gnupg' home directory.  It is
designed not to be invoked manually by the user, but automatically by
graphical user interfaces (GUI).(1)

   `gpgconf' provides access to the configuration of one or more
components of the GnuPG system.  These components correspond more or
less to the programs that exist in the GnuPG framework, like GnuPG,
GPGSM, DirMngr, etc.  But this is not a strict one-to-one relationship.
Not all configuration options are available through `gpgconf'.
`gpgconf' provides a generic and abstract method to access the most
important configuration options that can feasibly be controlled via
such a mechanism.

   `gpgconf' can be used to gather and change the options available in
each component, and can also provide their default values.  `gpgconf'
will give detailed type information that can be used to restrict the
user's input without making an attempt to commit the changes.

   `gpgconf' provides the backend of a configuration editor.  The
configuration editor would usually be a graphical user interface
program, that allows to display the current options, their default
values, and allows the user to make changes to the options.  These
changes can then be made active with `gpgconf' again.  Such a program
that uses `gpgconf' in this way will be called GUI throughout this
section.

* Menu:

* Invoking gpgconf::       List of all commands and options.
* Format conventions::     Formatting conventions relevant for all commands.
* Listing components::     List all gpgconf components.
* Checking programs::      Check all programs know to gpgconf.
* Listing options::        List all options of a component.
* Changing options::       Changing options of a component.
* Listing global options:: List all global options.
* Files used by gpgconf::  What files are used by gpgconf.

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) Please note that currently no locking is done, so concurrent
access should be avoided.  There are some precautions to avoid
corruption with concurrent usage, but results may be inconsistent and
some changes may get lost.  The stateless design makes it difficult to
provide more guarantees.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Invoking gpgconf,  Next: Format conventions,  Up: gpgconf

8.4.1 Invoking gpgconf
----------------------

One of the following commands must be given:

`--list-components'
     List all components.  This is the default command used if none is
     specified.

`--check-programs'
     List all available backend programs and test whether they are
     runnable.

`--list-options COMPONENT'
     List all options of the component COMPONENT.

`--change-options COMPONENT'
     Change the options of the component COMPONENT.

`--check-options COMPONENT'
     Check the options for the component COMPONENT.

`--apply-defaults'
     Update all configuration files with values taken from the global
     configuration file (usually `/etc/gnupg/gpgconf.conf').

`--list-dirs'
     Lists the directories used by `gpgconf'.  One directory is listed
     per line, and each line consists of a colon-separated list where
     the first field names the directory type (for example `sysconfdir')
     and the second field contains the percent-escaped directory.
     Although they are not directories, the socket file names used by
     `gpg-agent' and `dirmngr' are printed as well.  Note that the
     socket file names and the `homedir' lines are the default names
     and they may be overridden by command line switches.

`--list-config [FILENAME]'
     List the global configuration file in a colon separated format.  If
     FILENAME is given, check that file instead.

`--check-config [FILENAME]'
     Run a syntax check on the global configuration file.  If FILENAME
     is given, check that file instead.

`--reload [COMPONENT]'
     Reload all or the given component. This is basically the same as
     sending a SIGHUP to the component.  Components which don't support
     reloading are ignored.

`--launch [COMPONENT]'
     If the COMPONENT is not already running, start it.  `component'
     must be a daemon.  This is in general not required because the
     system starts these daemons as needed.  However, external software
     making direct use of `gpg-agent' or `dirmngr' may use this command
     to ensure that they are started.

`--kill [COMPONENT]'
     Kill the given component.  Components which support killing are
     gpg-agent and scdaemon.  Components which don't support reloading
     are ignored.  Note that as of now reload and kill have the same
     effect for scdaemon.


   The following options may be used:

`-v'
`--verbose'
     Outputs additional information while running.  Specifically, this
     extends numerical field values by human-readable descriptions.

`-n'
`--dry-run'
     Do not actually change anything.  This is currently only
     implemented for `--change-options' and can be used for testing
     purposes.

`-r'
`--runtime'
     Only used together with `--change-options'.  If one of the
     modified options can be changed in a running daemon process, signal
     the running daemon to ask it to reparse its configuration file
     after changing.

     This means that the changes will take effect at run-time, as far as
     this is possible.  Otherwise, they will take effect at the next
     start of the respective backend programs.



File: gnupg.info,  Node: Format conventions,  Next: Listing components,  Prev: Invoking gpgconf,  Up: gpgconf

8.4.2 Format conventions
------------------------

Some lines in the output of `gpgconf' contain a list of colon-separated
fields.  The following conventions apply:

   * The GUI program is required to strip off trailing newline and/or
     carriage return characters from the output.

   * `gpgconf' will never leave out fields.  If a certain version
     provides a certain field, this field will always be present in all
     `gpgconf' versions from that time on.

   * Future versions of `gpgconf' might append fields to the list.  New
     fields will always be separated from the previously last field by
     a colon separator.  The GUI should be prepared to parse the last
     field it knows about up until a colon or end of line.

   * Not all fields are defined under all conditions.  You are required
     to ignore the content of undefined fields.

   There are several standard types for the content of a field:

verbatim
     Some fields contain strings that are not escaped in any way.  Such
     fields are described to be used _verbatim_.  These fields will
     never contain a colon character (for obvious reasons).  No
     de-escaping or other formatting is required to use the field
     content.  This is for easy parsing of the output, when it is known
     that the content can never contain any special characters.

percent-escaped
     Some fields contain strings that are described to be
     _percent-escaped_.  Such strings need to be de-escaped before
     their content can be presented to the user.  A percent-escaped
     string is de-escaped by replacing all occurrences of `%XY' by the
     byte that has the hexadecimal value `XY'.  `X' and `Y' are from
     the set `0-9a-f'.

localised
     Some fields contain strings that are described to be _localised_.
     Such strings are translated to the active language and formatted in
     the active character set.

unsigned number
     Some fields contain an _unsigned number_.  This number will always
     fit into a 32-bit unsigned integer variable.  The number may be
     followed by a space, followed by a human readable description of
     that value (if the verbose option is used).  You should ignore
     everything in the field that follows the number.

signed number
     Some fields contain a _signed number_.  This number will always
     fit into a 32-bit signed integer variable.  The number may be
     followed by a space, followed by a human readable description of
     that value (if the verbose option is used).  You should ignore
     everything in the field that follows the number.

boolean value
     Some fields contain a _boolean value_.  This is a number with
     either the value 0 or 1.  The number may be followed by a space,
     followed by a human readable description of that value (if the
     verbose option is used).  You should ignore everything in the
     field that follows the number; checking just the first character
     is sufficient in this case.

option
     Some fields contain an _option_ argument.  The format of an option
     argument depends on the type of the option and on some flags:

    no argument
          The simplest case is that the option does not take an
          argument at all (TYPE `0').  Then the option argument is an
          unsigned number that specifies how often the option occurs.
          If the `list' flag is not set, then the only valid number is
          `1'.  Options that do not take an argument never have the
          `default' or `optional arg' flag set.

    number
          If the option takes a number argument (ALT-TYPE is `2' or
          `3'), and it can only occur once (`list' flag is not set),
          then the option argument is either empty (only allowed if the
          argument is optional), or it is a number.  A number is a
          string that begins with an optional minus character, followed
          by one or more digits.  The number must fit into an integer
          variable (unsigned or signed, depending on ALT-TYPE).

    number list
          If the option takes a number argument and it can occur more
          than once, then the option argument is either empty, or it is
          a comma-separated list of numbers as described above.

    string
          If the option takes a string argument (ALT-TYPE is 1), and it
          can only occur once (`list' flag is not set) then the option
          argument is either empty (only allowed if the argument is
          optional), or it starts with a double quote character (`"')
          followed by a percent-escaped string that is the argument
          value.  Note that there is only a leading double quote
          character, no trailing one.  The double quote character is
          only needed to be able to differentiate between no value and
          the empty string as value.

    string list
          If the option takes a number argument and it can occur more
          than once, then the option argument is either empty, or it is
          a comma-separated list of string arguments as described above.

   The active language and character set are currently determined from
the locale environment of the `gpgconf' program.


File: gnupg.info,  Node: Listing components,  Next: Checking programs,  Prev: Format conventions,  Up: gpgconf

8.4.3 Listing components
------------------------

The command `--list-components' will list all components that can be
configured with `gpgconf'.  Usually, one component will correspond to
one GnuPG-related program and contain the options of that programs
configuration file that can be modified using `gpgconf'.  However, this
is not necessarily the case.  A component might also be a group of
selected options from several programs, or contain entirely virtual
options that have a special effect rather than changing exactly one
option in one configuration file.

   A component is a set of configuration options that semantically
belong together.  Furthermore, several changes to a component can be
made in an atomic way with a single operation.  The GUI could for
example provide a menu with one entry for each component, or a window
with one tabulator sheet per component.

   The command argument `--list-components' lists all available
components, one per line.  The format of each line is:

   `NAME:DESCRIPTION:PGMNAME:'

NAME
     This field contains a name tag of the component.  The name tag is
     used to specify the component in all communication with `gpgconf'.
     The name tag is to be used _verbatim_.  It is thus not in any
     escaped format.

DESCRIPTION
     The _string_ in this field contains a human-readable description
     of the component.  It can be displayed to the user of the GUI for
     informational purposes.  It is _percent-escaped_ and _localized_.

PGMNAME
     The _string_ in this field contains the absolute name of the
     program's file.  It can be used to unambiguously invoke that
     program.  It is _percent-escaped_.

   Example:
     $ gpgconf --list-components
     gpg:GPG for OpenPGP:/usr/local/bin/gpg2:
     gpg-agent:GPG Agent:/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent:
     scdaemon:Smartcard Daemon:/usr/local/bin/scdaemon:
     gpgsm:GPG for S/MIME:/usr/local/bin/gpgsm:
     dirmngr:Directory Manager:/usr/local/bin/dirmngr:

