sq-toolbox-armor - Man Page

Convert binary to ASCII

Synopsis

sq toolbox armor [Options] FILE

Description

Convert binary to ASCII.

To make encrypted data easier to handle and transport, OpenPGP data can be transformed to an ASCII representation called ASCII Armor.  sq emits armored data by default, but this subcommand can be used to convert existing OpenPGP data to its ASCII-encoded representation.

The converse operation is `sq toolbox dearmor`.

Options

Subcommand options

--label=LABEL

Select the kind of armor header

[default: auto]

[possible values: auto, message, cert, key, sig, file]

--output=FILE

Write to FILE or stdout if omitted

[default: -]

FILE

Read from FILE or stdin if FILE is '-'

[default: -]

Global options

See sq(1) for a description of the global options.

Examples

Convert a binary OpenPGP message to an ASCII armored OpenPGP message.

    sq toolbox armor message.bin

Convert a binary OpenPGP message to an ASCII armored OpenPGP message explicitly choosing the armor label.

    sq toolbox armor --label=message message.bin

See Also

sq(1), sq-toolbox(1).

For the full documentation see <https://book.sequoia-pgp.org>.

Version

0.39.0 (sequoia-openpgp 1.21.2)

Referenced By

sq-toolbox(1).

0.39.0 Sequoia PGP