These first three lines are not copied to the options file in the users home directory. $Id$ # Options for GnuPG # # Unless you you specify which option file to use (with the # commandline option "--options filename"), GnuPG uses the # file ~/.gnupg/options by default. # # An option file can contain all long options which are # available in GnuPG. If the first non white space character of # a line is a '#', this line is ignored. Empty lines are also # ignored. # # See the man page for a list of options. # Uncomment the next line to get rid of the copyright notice #no-greeting # If you have more than 1 secret key in your keyring, you may want # to uncomment the following option and set your preffered keyid # default-key 621CC013 # The next option is enabled because this one is needed for interoperation # with PGP 5 users. To enable full OpenPGP compliance you have to remove # this option. force-v3-sigs # Default is to use the newer compress algo 2, but PGP 5 does not # like this, so we use the old one # Hmm: Do we really need this ... preferences should decide which compress # algo to use. compress-algo 1 # If you do not use the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) charset, you should # tell GnuPG which is the native character set. Please check # the man page for supported character sets. #charset koi8-r # You may define aliases like this: # alias mynames -u 0x12345678 -u 0x456789ab -z 9 # everytime you use --mynames, it will be expanded to the options # in the above defintion. The name of the alias may not be abbreviated.