These first three lines are not copied to the gpg.conf file in the users home directory. $Id$ # Options for GnuPG # Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives # unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without # modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. # # This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the # implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. # # Unless you specify which option file to use (with the command line # option "--options filename"), GnuPG uses the file ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf # by default. # # An options file can contain any 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 following option 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 preferred keyid. #default-key 621CC013 # If you do not pass a recipient to gpg, it will ask for one. Using # this option you can encrypt to a default key. Key validation will # not be done in this case. The second form uses the default key as # default recipient. #default-recipient some-user-id #default-recipient-self # By default GnuPG creates version 3 signatures for data files. This # is not strictly OpenPGP compliant but PGP 6 and most versions of PGP # 7 require them. To disable this behavior, you may use this option # or --openpgp. #no-force-v3-sigs # Because some mailers change lines starting with "From " to ">From " # it is good to handle such lines in a special way when creating # cleartext signatures; all other PGP versions do it this way too. # To enable full OpenPGP compliance you may want to use this option. #no-escape-from-lines # 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. This character set is only used for # Meta data and not for the actual message which does not undergo any # translation. Note that future version of GnuPG will change to UTF-8 # as default character set. #charset utf-8 # Group names may be defined like this: # group mynames paige 0x12345678 joe patti # # Any time "mynames" is a recipient (-r or --recipient), it will be # expanded to the names "paige", "joe", and "patti", and the key ID # "0x12345678". Note there is only one level of expansion - you # cannot make an group that points to another group. Note also that # if there are spaces in the recipient name, this will appear as two # recipients. In these cases it is better to use the key ID. #group mynames paige 0x12345678 joe patti # Lock the file only once for the lifetime of a process. If you do # not define this, the lock will be obtained and released every time # it is needed - normally this is not needed. #lock-once # GnuPG can send and receive keys to and from a keyserver. These # servers can be HKP, email, or LDAP (if GnuPG is built with LDAP # support). # # Example HKP keyserver: # x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu # # Example email keyserver: # mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.nl.pgp.net # # Example LDAP keyservers: # ldap://pgp.surfnet.nl:11370 # ldap://keyserver.pgp.com # # Regular URL syntax applies, and you can set an alternate port # through the usual method: # x-hkp://keyserver.example.net:22742 # # If you have problems connecting to a HKP server through a buggy http # proxy, you can use keyserver option broken-http-proxy (see below), # but first you should make sure that you have read the man page # regarding proxies (keyserver option honor-http-proxy) # # Most users just set the name and type of their preferred keyserver. # Most servers do synchronize with each other and DNS round-robin may # give you a quasi-random server each time. #keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu #keyserver mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.nl.pgp.net #keyserver ldap://pgp.surfnet.nl:11370 #keyserver ldap://keyserver.pgp.com # Common options for keyserver functions: # # include-disabled = when searching, include keys marked as "disabled" # on the keyserver (not all keyservers support this). # # no-include-revoked = when searching, do not include keys marked as # "revoked" on the keyserver. # # verbose = show more information as the keys are fetched. # Can be used more than once to increase the amount # of information shown. # # use-temp-files = use temporary files instead of a pipe to talk to the # keyserver. Some platforms (Win32 for one) always # have this on. # # keep-temp-files = do not delete temporary files after using them # (really only useful for debugging) # # honor-http-proxy = if the keyserver uses HTTP, honor the http_proxy # environment variable # # broken-http-proxy = try to work around a buggy HTTP proxy # # auto-key-retrieve = automatically fetch keys as needed from the keyserver # when verifying signatures or when importing keys that # have been revoked by a revocation key that is not # present on the keyring. # # no-include-attributes = do not include attribute IDs (aka "photo IDs") # when sending keys to the keyserver. #keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve # Uncomment this line to display photo user IDs in key listings and # when a signature from a key with a photo is verified. #show-photos # Use this program to display photo user IDs # # %i is expanded to a temporary file that contains the photo. # %I is the same as %i, but the file isn't deleted afterwards by GnuPG. # %k is expanded to the key ID of the key. # %K is expanded to the long OpenPGP key ID of the key. # %t is expanded to the extension of the image (e.g. "jpg"). # %T is expanded to the MIME type of the image (e.g. "image/jpeg"). # %f is expanded to the fingerprint of the key. # %% is %, of course. # # If %i or %I are not present, then the photo is supplied to the # viewer on standard input. If your platform supports it, standard # input is the best way to do this as it avoids the time and effort in # generating and then cleaning up a secure temp file. # # The default program is "xloadimage -fork -quiet -title 'KeyID 0x%k' stdin" # On Mac OS X and Windows, the default is to use your regular image viewer. # # Some other viewers: # photo-viewer "qiv %i" # photo-viewer "ee %i" # photo-viewer "display -title 'KeyID 0x%k'" # # This one saves a copy of the photo ID in your home directory: # photo-viewer "cat > ~/photoid-for-key-%k.%t" # # Use your MIME handler to view photos: # photo-viewer "metamail -q -d -b -c %T -s 'KeyID 0x%k' -f GnuPG" # Passphrase agent # # We support the old experimental passphrase agent protocol as well # as the new Assuan based one (currently available in the "newpg" package # at ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/aegypten/). To make use of the agent, you have # to run an agent as daemon and use the option # # use-agent # # which tries to use the agent but will fallback to the regular mode # if there is a problem connecting to the agent. The normal way to # locate the agent is by looking at the environment variable # GPG_AGENT_INFO which should have been set during gpg-agent startup. # In certain situations the use of this variable is not possible, thus # the option # # --gpg-agent-info=::1 # # may be used to override it.