convert .asc to .gpg (and eventually vice-versa)

[Jean-Jacques Brucker]

Perfect,

Thx a lot.

2011/10/10 David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com>:
> On Oct 9, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Jbar wrote:
>
>> Hi, It is maybe a dumb question, but I don't have found an easy way to convert a signed message from .asc to a .gpg ?
>>
>> I have to send signed message trough text-only channel, but i would like to store only binary version to save disk space. (I have
>> to keep the signature with the message)
>>
>> Should I uuencode .gpg message before to send it through the text-only channel, or is there a (easy) way to convert .asc to .gpg
>> (and also .gpg to .asc) ?
>
> "gpg --dearmor the-asc-file.asc" will convert from .asc to .gpg
>
> To go from .gpg to .asc is a little trickier since it doesn't know what sort of message it is (that is, it could be a public key, an encrypted or signed message, a detached signature, etc).  In your case you say it's a signed message so that's a "PGP MESSAGE", so you can do it with
> "gpg --enarmor the-gpg-file.gpg" and then edit the file and change "BEGIN PGP ARMORED FILE" to "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" at the top and a similar change at the end.  Or assuming you have sed handy you could do something like:
>
> cat the-gpg-file.gpg | gpg --enarmor | sed 's|ARMORED FILE|MESSAGE|' > my-new-asc-file.asc
>
> David
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