Public Key Rings
The Global Public Key Ring
- Contained 15,263 keys 9/24/95
- Add or fetch keys using a key server
- There is no way to delete a key.
Personal Public Key Ring
- A local cache for use by PGP
- The place where trust information is stored.
- Add a key files contents: pgp -ka keyfile
- Remove a key: pgp -ka userid
- Remove signatures from a key/userid: pgp -krs userid
- Extract a key: pgp -kx userid
- View the contents of the key ring: pgp -kv[v]
- Check Signatures of a key: pgp -kc [userid]
- View the "fingerprint" of a public key: pgp -kvc [userid]
- Sign someone elses key: pgp -ks [userid]
- Edit the trust parameters for a key: pgp -ke [userid]
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