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Using the GNU Privacy Guard
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This is the 'The GNU Privacy Guard Manual' (version 2.2.12, December
2018).

   (C) 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
(C) 2013, 2014, 2015 Werner Koch.
(C) 2015, 2016, 2017 g10 Code GmbH.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
     published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the
     License, or (at your option) any later version.  The text of the
     license can be found in the section entitled "Copying".

   This manual documents how to use the GNU Privacy Guard system as well
as the administration and the architecture.

Installation

A short installation guide.

Invoking GPG-AGENT

How to launch the secret key daemon.

Invoking DIRMNGR

How to launch the CRL and OCSP daemon.

Invoking GPG

Using the OpenPGP protocol.

Invoking GPGSM

Using the S/MIME protocol.

Invoking SCDAEMON

How to handle Smartcards.

Specify a User ID

How to Specify a User Id.

Trust Values

How GnuPG displays trust values.

Helper Tools

Description of small helper tools

Web Key Service

Tools for the Web Key Service

Howtos

How to do certain things.

System Notes

Notes pertaining to certain OSes.

Debugging

How to solve problems

Copying

GNU General Public License says

how you can copy and share GnuPG

Contributors

People who have contributed to GnuPG.

Glossary

Short description of terms used.

Option Index

Index to command line options.

Environment Index

Index to environment variables and files.

Index

Index of concepts and symbol names.