Importing keys

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 12:21:37 CEST 2005


Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:42:10 +0100, Bob Henson said:
> 
> 
>>I can't find anything in the man page about key import file formats. Other
>>than ascii files, can GnuPG import any other file formats and if so what?
> 
> 
> gpg knows about both OpenPGP defiend formats: Binary and ASCII
> armored.  It will automagically detect the mode.  See rfc2440 for the
> OpenPGP key formats.
> 
>

Can GPG use ascii-armored keyrings? Or must keyrings be binary files?

-- 
Alphax                      |   /"\
Encrypted Email Preferred   |   \ /     ASCII Ribbon Campaign
OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613  |    X   Against HTML email & vCards
http://tinyurl.com/cc9up    |   / \



More information about the Gnupg-users mailing list