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- News for PGP 2.2
-
- The main change since PGP 2.1 is a speedup in key management, and
- the ability to encrypt for more than one recipient. Apart from
- this there are some bugfixes and some new options to make it easier
- to use PGP from shell scripts or mailers.
-
- You can encrypt for more than one recipient by specifying additional
- userids on the command line eg:
-
- pgp -e plaintext Alice Bob Carol
-
-
- Some notes about the changes:
-
- - PGP doesn't do a keycheck on a keyfile before it is added anymore,
- this is to speed up merging a big keyfile with your public keyring which
- may already have most of the keys in the keyfile you are adding. After
- PGP has checked a signature it sets a flag in your public keyring to
- mark this signature as checked. Because PGP 2.1 didn't have these
- flags, PGP will check *all* signatures on your keyring the first time
- you add a key with PGP 2.2. After that PGP will only check new
- signatures. Also by using an older version than 2.2 on your keyring you
- will clear these flags again.
-
-
- New options:
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- +interactive
- If you add a keyfile, PGP will ask for each new key if it should
- be added to your keyring.
-
- Options for use in shell scripts:
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- +verbose=n
- The default is 1. With +verbose=0, PGP will only print an error
- message if something goes wrong. With +verbose=2, PGP will tell
- you what it's doing in detail suitable for debugging.
-
- +force
- Overwrite output file without asking, or with -kr: remove key
- without asking (only if it has just one userid).
-
- +batchmode
- With this option PGP won't ask any questions or prompt for
- alternate file names. Some of the key commands still need
- user interaction and can't be done from a shell script.
- You can also use this option to check if a file has a good
- signature. If the input file did not have a signature the exit
- code will be 1, if the file had a signature and if it checked OK
- the exit code will be 0. Note that if the input file has more
- than one armored messages, a good signature on one of these
- messages will make the exit code 0 (if there are no errors).
-
- These "long" options can be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is
- unambiguous. "interactive" and "verbose" can also be set in config.txt;
- you can then turn these flags off on the command line with +option=.
-
-
- Some of the bug fixes:
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- - Key lookup on keyID (eg 0x12AB) fixed for -ks/-krs.
-
- - Dearmoring of Macintosh type text files (CR only) now also works.
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