These first three lines are not copied to the options file in the users home directory. $Id$ # Options for GnuPG # Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 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 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 # GnuPG ultimately trusts all keys in the secret keyring. If you do # not have all your secret keys online available you should use this # option to tell GnuPG about ultimately trusted keys. # You have to give the long keyID here which can be obtained by using # the --list-key command along with the option --with-colons; you will # get a line similiar to this one: # pub:u:1024:17:5DE249965B0358A2:1999-03-15:2006-02-04:59:f: # the 5th field is what you want. #trusted-key 12345678ABCDEF01 # 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 # 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 # 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 have to remove this option. 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. #charset utf-8 # 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. # NOTE: This is not yet implemented # 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 # If you have configured GnuPG without a random gatherer # (./configure --enable-static-rnd=none), you have to # uncomment _one_ of the following lines. These # extensions won't get used if you have a random gatherer # compiled in (which is the default for GNU and xxxBSD systems) #load-extension rndlinux #load-extension rndunix #load-extension rndegd # GnuPG can import a key from a HKP keyerver if one is missing # for certain operations. Is you set this option to a keyserver # you will be asked in such a case whether GnuPG should try to # import the key from that server (server do syncronize with each # other and DNS Round-Robin may give you a random server each time). # Use "host -l pgp.net | grep www" to figure out a keyserver. # # If you do not want to use the default port 11371, you can give the # name of the keyserver like this: # x-hkp://keyserver.example.net:22742 # If you have problems connecting through a buggy proxy, you can use this: # x-broken-hkp://keyserver.example.net:11371 # But first you should make sure that you have read the man page regarding # proxies (--honor-http-proxy) # Most users just set the name of the preferred keyserver. #keyserver wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net # The environment variable http_proxy is only used when the # this option is set. honor-http-proxy