pgpring(1)

pgpring1

Key ring dumper

Usage

pgpring [{-k keyring | -2 | -5}] [-s] [-S] [-e] [-E]

Overview

pgpring is a key ring dumper. It extracts information from PGP's binary key ring and emits it in an (almost) readable output format understood by mutt(1) and process_keys(1). This output format mimics the one used by the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).

Options

-k keyring

Dump the contents of the specified keyring.

-2

Use the default keyring for PGP 2.x.

-5

Use the default keyring for PGP 5.

-s

Dump the secret keyring.

-S

Include signatures.

-e

Exclude expired signatures.

-E

Exclude expired keys.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1–5.0
  2. 6.0–7
  3. 8–Arch

-E since Debian 8 (Jessie); -e since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Authors

Thomas Roessler <[email protected]>

From signing-party 2.11-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.