NAME¶

armor - Converts binary to ASCII

SYNOPSIS¶

armor [-o|--output] [--label] [-h|--help] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION¶

Converts 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 dearmor".

OPTIONS¶

-o, --output=FILE

Writes to FILE or stdout if omitted

--label=LABEL [default: auto] [possible values: auto, message, cert, key, sig, file]

Selects the kind of armor header

-h, --help

Print help information

[FILE]

Reads from FILE or stdin if omitted

EXAMPLES¶

Convert a binary certificate to ASCII

 sq armor binary-juliet.pgp

Convert a binary message to ASCII

 sq armor binary-message.pgp

SEE ALSO¶

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

sq(1) sq-autocrypt(1) sq-certify(1) sq-dearmor(1) sq-decrypt(1) sq-encrypt(1) sq-inspect(1) sq-key(1) sq-keyring(1) sq-keyserver(1) sq-packet(1) sq-revoke(1) sq-sign(1) sq-verify(1) sq-wkd(1)