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10 Helper Tools

GnuPG comes with a couple of smaller tools:

• Read logs from a socket
• Verify OpenPGP signatures
• Create .gnupg home directories
• Modify .gnupg home directories
• Run gpgconf for all users
• Put a passphrase into the cache
• Communicate with a running agent
• The Dirmngr Client Tool
• Parse a mail message into an annotated format
• Encrypt or sign files into an archive
• Encrypt rfc822 formated mail in a pipeline
• Check a passphrase on stdin against the patternfile