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This is the The GNU Privacy Guard Manual (version 2.5.1-beta23, August 2024).

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.

1 A short installation guide
2 Invoking GPG-AGENT
- 2.1 Commands
- 2.2 Option Summary
- 2.3 Configuration
- 2.4 Use of some signals
- 2.5 Examples
- 2.6 Agent’s Assuan Protocol
3 Invoking DIRMNGR
- 3.1 Commands
- 3.2 Option Summary
- 3.3 Configuration
- 3.4 Use of signals
- 3.5 Examples
- 3.6 Dirmngr’s Assuan Protocol
4 Invoking GPG
- 4.1 Commands
- 4.2 Option Summary
- 4.3 Configuration files
- 4.4 Examples
- 4.5 Unattended Usage
5 Invoking GPGSM
- 5.1 Commands
- 5.2 Option Summary
- 5.3 Configuration files
- 5.4 Examples
- 5.5 Unattended Usage
  - 5.5.1 Automated signature checking
  - 5.5.2 CSR and certificate creation
- 5.6 The Protocol the Server Mode Uses
6 Invoking the SCDAEMON
- 6.1 Commands
- 6.2 Option Summary
- 6.3 Description of card applications
- 6.4 Configuration files
- 6.5 Examples
- 6.6 Scdaemon’s Assuan Protocol
7 How to Specify a User Id
8 Trust Values
9 Smart Card Tool
- 9.1 Administrate smart cards.
10 Helper Tools
- 10.1 Read logs from a socket
- 10.2 Verify OpenPGP signatures
- 10.3 Create .gnupg home directories
- 10.4 Modify .gnupg home directories
- 10.5 Run gpgconf for all users
- 10.6 Put a passphrase into the cache
  - 10.6.1 List of all commands and options
- 10.7 Communicate with a running agent
  - 10.7.1 List of all options
  - 10.7.2 Control commands
- 10.8 The Dirmngr Client Tool
- 10.9 Parse a mail message into an annotated format
- 10.10 Encrypt or sign files into an archive
- 10.11 Encrypt rfc822 formated mail in a pipeline
- 10.12 Check a passphrase on stdin against the patternfile
11 Web Key Service
- 11.1 Send requests via WKS
- 11.2 Provide the Web Key Service
12 How to do certain things
- 12.1 Creating a TLS server certificate
13 Notes pertaining to certain OSes
- 13.1 Microsoft Windows Notes
14 How to solve problems
- 14.1 Debugging Tools
  - 14.1.1 Scrutinizing a keybox file
- 14.2 Various hints on debugging
- 14.3 Commonly Seen Problems
- 14.4 How the whole thing works internally
  - 14.4.1 How the components work together
  - 14.4.2 Relationship between GnuPG 1.4 and 2.x
GNU General Public License
- Preamble
- How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
Contributors to GnuPG
Glossary
Option Index
Environment Variable and File Index
Index

Using the GNU Privacy Guard

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