On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Francesco C. <anything.everythin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, I'm a beginner of Gpg and encryption's world in general, so > I apologize if my questions will be so banal.
Hi Francesco, Welcome! No need to apologize! We're all pretty friendly here. :) > I created a new pair of public-private keys and now I'm trying to export the > public one. Excellent. > I read the "How-To" and it describe the more useful option --armour. I can't > understand how to send a ASCII text print on my screen to an other user. > > Is not more useful the --output options? You can add "--armor" (or "--armour", I had no idea that GnuPG supported the British spelling of the word. Interesting!) to essentially any command that involves data being output. For consistency I will use the spelling without the "u", but both are equivalent. For example, if you created a key with the KeyID of "KEYID", you could export the public key for it to the terminal using "gpg --export --armor KEYID". If you wish to export the public key to a text file which you can then include in an email, post on the web, etc., you could use "gpg --export --armor KEYID > filename.txt" where 'filename' is whatever you wish the file to be called. The armor feature is indeed quite useful, but it comes at a slight cost: armored files/messages are slightly larger than their unarmored, binary counterparts. Cheers! -Pete _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
