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NAME

       pgpgpg  -  wrapper  around  Gnu  Privacy  Guard  that takes Pretty Good
       Privacy command line options

SYNOPSIS

       pgpgpg [options] pgpfile

       pgpgpg -e [options] file user ...

DESCRIPTION

       PGPGPG is a wrapper that allows calls  to  GnuPG  (Gnu  Privacy  Guard)
       using  the command line options of (Pretty Good Privacy). PGP and GnuPG
       are  encryption  programms  with  high  security  encryption   engines.
       However,   PGP  is  available  without  a  fee  but  is  not realy free
       software.  GnuPG  on  the other  hand  is  realy free software and  has
       additionally  features  but  with  a different command line syntax than
       PGP.

       The  goal  of pgpgpg is to plug in a command line syntax  in  front  of
       GnuPG equal to PGP 2.6.

OPTIONS

       The  following options are supported by pgpgpg notice that long options
       do not use the usual GNU syntax (--)  but,  instead  are  of  the  form
       +option[=value].

       -e     Encrypt a plaintext file.

       -d, -p Decrypt a plaintext file.

       -s     Sign a plaintext file.
              pgpgpg -s file [-u userid]

       -sb    Create  a  separate  signature  certificate  (a .sig file) for a
              given file.
              pgpgpg -sb file [-u userid]

       -c     Use convential cryptography when encrypting.

       -o     Output  to  the  file  specified.  Should  only  be   used   for
              encryption,  decryption  and  signature  operations (not for key
              management).

       -a, +armor
              ASCII armor the output file.

       -u, +myname
              Select the userid to use for some operations.

       -kg    Generate a unique public/secret pair.

       -ka    Add a public or secret key to your key ring.
              pgpgpg -ka keyfile [keyring]

       -kx    Extract a copy from your public or secret keyring.
              pgpgpg -kx[a] userid keyfile [keyring]

       -kv    View the contents of your keyring.
              pgpgpg -kv[v] [userid] [keyring]

       -kvc   View a key fingerprint.
              pgpgpg -kvc [userid] [keyring]

       -kr    Remove a key from your keyring.
              pgpgpg -kr userid [keyring]

       -kd    If acting on your secret key, permanently revoke a key and issue
              a compromise certificate.  If acting on a public key, disable or
              reenable a key.
              pgpgpg -kd userid

       -ke    Edit trust parameters for a public key or edit the  pass  phrase
              or add a userid to a secret key.
              pgpgpg -ke userid [keyring]

       -kc    View  the  contents  and check the certifying signatures of your
              public key ring.
              pgpgpg -kc [userid] [keyring]

       -ks    Sign and certify someone’s public key.
              pgpgpg -ks userid [-u userid] [keyring]

       The  following  options  are  ignored  or  unsupported:   ++armorlines,
       +autosign,     +bakring,    +interactive,    +keepbinary,    +language,
       +legal_kludge, +nomanual, +pager, +randseed, +tmp and +tzfix.

BUGS

       PGPGPG does not currently provide an online help (-h or -?)   and  will
       not show a summary of commands, as PGP does, when typing:
       pgp -k

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

AUTHORS

       PGP was originally written by Philip R. Zimmermann.  PGPGPG was written
       by Michael Roth.

       This  manpage  was  written by Javier Fernández-Sanguino for the Debian
       distribution (but may be used by others) by glancing at  PGP’s  manpage
       and the source code from PGPGPG (pgpopts.c)

                              PGPGPG Version 0.13                       PGP(1)