epa: Key management
3.1 Key management
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Probably the first step of using EasyPG Assistant is to browse your
keyring. ‘M-x epa-list-keys’ is corresponding to ‘gpg --list-keys’ from
the command line.
-- Command: epa-list-keys name mode
Show all keys matched with NAME from the public keyring.
The output looks as follows.
u A5B6B2D4B15813FE Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
A character on the leftmost column indicates the trust level of the key.
If it is ‘u’, the key is marked as ultimately trusted. The second
column is the key ID, and the rest is the user ID.
You can move over entries by <TAB>. If you type <RET> or click
button1 on an entry, you will see more detailed information about the
key you selected.
u Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
u A5B6B2D4B15813FE 1024bits DSA
Created: 2001-10-09
Expires: 2007-09-04
Capabilities: sign certify
Fingerprint: 8003 7CD0 0F1A 9400 03CA 50AA A5B6 B2D4 B158 13FE
u 4447461B2A9BEA2D 2048bits ELGAMAL_E
Created: 2001-10-09
Expires: 2007-09-04
Capabilities: encrypt
Fingerprint: 9003 D76B 73B7 4A8A E588 10AF 4447 461B 2A9B EA2D
To browse your private keyring, use ‘M-x epa-list-secret-keys’.
-- Command: epa-list-secret-keys name
Show all keys matched with NAME from the private keyring.
In ‘*Keys*’ buffer, several commands are available. The common use case
is to export some keys to a file. To do that, type ‘m’ to select keys,
type ‘o’, and then supply the filename.
Below are other commands related to key management. Some of them
take a file as input/output, and others take the current region.
-- Command: epa-insert-keys keys
Insert selected KEYS after the point. It will let you select keys
before insertion. By default, it will encode keys in the OpenPGP
armor format.
-- Command: epa-import-keys file
Import keys from FILE to your keyring.
-- Command: epa-import-keys-region start end
Import keys from the current region between START and END to your
keyring.
-- Command: epa-import-armor-in-region start end
Import keys in the OpenPGP armor format in the current region
between START and END. The difference from
‘epa-import-keys-region’ is that ‘epa-import-armor-in-region’
searches armors in the region and applies ‘epa-import-keys-region’
to each of them.
-- Command: epa-delete-keys allow-secret
Delete selected keys. If ALLOW-SECRET is non-‘nil’, it also delete
the secret keys.
Info Catalog
epa: Commands
epa: Commands
epa: Cryptographic operations on regions