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| author | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> | 2017-11-17 02:17:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> | 2017-11-21 16:13:13 +0000 |
| commit | 91eb242d635f6650bcc7d8d82a5bfd142222bd5a (patch) | |
| tree | fc1e3350124cbfc357a2c6702be26da7ec61bde3 | |
| parent | Include NEWS from 2.2.3 (diff) | |
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doc: clarify that --encrypt refers to public key encryption
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A simple read of gpg(1) is ambiguous about whether --encrypt could be
for either symmetric or pubkey encryption. Closer inference suggests
that --encrypt is about pubkey encryption only. Make that clearer on
a first read.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gpg.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gpg.texi b/doc/gpg.texi index bd45b0422..35bb9a810 100644 --- a/doc/gpg.texi +++ b/doc/gpg.texi @@ -196,11 +196,13 @@ Make a detached signature. @item --encrypt @itemx -e @opindex encrypt -Encrypt data. This command may be combined with @option{--sign} (to -sign and encrypt a message), @option{--symmetric} (to encrypt a -message that can decrypted using a secret key or a passphrase), or -@option{--sign} and @option{--symmetric} together (for a signed -message that can be decrypted using a secret key or a passphrase). +Encrypt data to one or more public keys. This command may be combined +with @option{--sign} (to sign and encrypt a message), +@option{--symmetric} (to encrypt a message that can decrypted using a +secret key or a passphrase), or @option{--sign} and +@option{--symmetric} together (for a signed message that can be +decrypted using a secret key or a passphrase). @option{--recipient} +and related options specify which public keys to use for encryption. @item --symmetric @itemx -c |