---
name: "mhpgp"
section: "1mh"
platform: "linux"
package: "mmh"
version: "0.4-4"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mhpgp"
---

# mhpgp(1mh)

verify and decrypt a message with gnupg

## NAME

mhpgp - verify and decrypt a message with gnupg

## SYNOPSIS

**mhpgp** \[**-write**\] \[**-Version**\] \[**-help**\] \[*+folder*\] \[*msg*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**mhpgp** is a script to simplify verifying and decrypting PGP messages, using gnupg.

**mhpgp** can handle signatures and encryption in MIME and plain (non-MIME) format. Signed messages are verified. Encrypted messages are displayed with **show** in decrypted form, the signature is verified as well.

With the **-write** switch, the decrypted message is stored into the current folder.

If no *msg* is given, the current message is used.

Trailing blanks are stripped from the lines before signature verification, because non are expected to be present as RFC 3156 requests:

\[...\] implementations MUST make sure that no trailing whitespace is present after the MIME encoding has been applied.

If there is trailing whitespace, it was likely added mistakenly during mail transfer.

## FILES

None

## PROFILE COMPONENTS

None

## SEE ALSO

mhsign(1), [gpg(1)](/gpg/1.md)

## DEFAULTS

```
`+folder' defaults to the current folder
`msg' defaults to the current message
```

## CONTEXT

None

## BUGS

The order of the command line arguments is relevant: The options must come first, the message specification last.