1 # These first three lines are not copied to the gpg.conf file in
2 # the users home directory.
5 # Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
7 # This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
8 # unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
9 # modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
11 # This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
12 # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the
13 # implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
15 # Unless you specify which option file to use (with the command line
16 # option "--options filename"), GnuPG uses the file ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
19 # An options file can contain any long options which are available in
20 # GnuPG. If the first non white space character of a line is a '#',
21 # this line is ignored. Empty lines are also ignored.
23 # See the man page for a list of options.
25 # Uncomment the following option to get rid of the copyright notice
29 # If you have more than 1 secret key in your keyring, you may want to
30 # uncomment the following option and set your preferred keyid.
34 # If you do not pass a recipient to gpg, it will ask for one. Using
35 # this option you can encrypt to a default key. Key validation will
36 # not be done in this case. The second form uses the default key as
39 #default-recipient some-user-id
40 #default-recipient-self
42 # Use --encrypt-to to add the specified key as a recipient to all
43 # messages. This is useful, for example, when sending mail through a
44 # mail client that does not automatically encrypt mail to your key.
45 # In the example, this option allows you to read your local copy of
46 # encrypted mail that you've sent to others.
48 #encrypt-to some-key-id
50 # By default GnuPG creates version 3 signatures for data files. This
51 # is not strictly OpenPGP compliant but PGP 6 and most versions of PGP
52 # 7 require them. To disable this behavior, you may use this option
57 # Because some mailers change lines starting with "From " to ">From "
58 # it is good to handle such lines in a special way when creating
59 # cleartext signatures; all other PGP versions do it this way too.
60 # To enable full OpenPGP compliance you may want to use this option.
64 # If you do not use the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) charset, you should tell
65 # GnuPG which is the native character set. Please check the man page
66 # for supported character sets. This character set is only used for
67 # metadata and not for the actual message which does not undergo any
68 # translation. Note that future version of GnuPG will change to UTF-8
69 # as default character set. In most cases this option is not required
70 # GnuPG is able to figure out the correct charset and use that.
74 # Group names may be defined like this:
75 # group mynames = paige 0x12345678 joe patti
77 # Any time "mynames" is a recipient (-r or --recipient), it will be
78 # expanded to the names "paige", "joe", and "patti", and the key ID
79 # "0x12345678". Note there is only one level of expansion - you
80 # cannot make an group that points to another group. Note also that
81 # if there are spaces in the recipient name, this will appear as two
82 # recipients. In these cases it is better to use the key ID.
84 #group mynames = paige 0x12345678 joe patti
86 # Lock the file only once for the lifetime of a process. If you do
87 # not define this, the lock will be obtained and released every time
88 # it is needed, which is usually preferable.
92 # GnuPG can send and receive keys to and from a keyserver. These
93 # servers can be HKP, email, or LDAP (if GnuPG is built with LDAP
96 # Example HKP keyserver:
97 # hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
99 # Example email keyserver:
100 # mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net
102 # Example LDAP keyservers:
103 # ldap://keyserver.pgp.com
105 # Regular URL syntax applies, and you can set an alternate port
106 # through the usual method:
107 # hkp://keyserver.example.net:22742
109 # If you have problems connecting to a HKP server through a buggy http
110 # proxy, you can use keyserver option broken-http-proxy (see below),
111 # but first you should make sure that you have read the man page
112 # regarding proxies (keyserver option honor-http-proxy)
114 # Most users just set the name and type of their preferred keyserver.
115 # Note that most servers (with the notable exception of
116 # ldap://keyserver.pgp.com) synchronize changes with each other. Note
117 # also that a single server name may actually point to multiple
118 # servers via DNS round-robin. hkp://subkeys.pgp.net is an example of
119 # such a "server", which spreads the load over a number of physical
122 keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
123 #keyserver mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.nl.pgp.net
124 #keyserver ldap://keyserver.pgp.com
126 # Common options for keyserver functions:
128 # include-disabled = when searching, include keys marked as "disabled"
129 # on the keyserver (not all keyservers support this).
131 # no-include-revoked = when searching, do not include keys marked as
132 # "revoked" on the keyserver.
134 # verbose = show more information as the keys are fetched.
135 # Can be used more than once to increase the amount
136 # of information shown.
138 # use-temp-files = use temporary files instead of a pipe to talk to the
139 # keyserver. Some platforms (Win32 for one) always
142 # keep-temp-files = do not delete temporary files after using them
143 # (really only useful for debugging)
145 # honor-http-proxy = if the keyserver uses HTTP, honor the http_proxy
146 # environment variable
148 # broken-http-proxy = try to work around a buggy HTTP proxy
150 # auto-key-retrieve = automatically fetch keys as needed from the keyserver
151 # when verifying signatures or when importing keys that
152 # have been revoked by a revocation key that is not
153 # present on the keyring.
155 # no-include-attributes = do not include attribute IDs (aka "photo IDs")
156 # when sending keys to the keyserver.
158 #keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
160 # Display photo user IDs in key listings
162 # list-options show-photos
164 # Display photo user IDs when a signature from a key with a photo is
167 # verify-options show-photos
169 # Use this program to display photo user IDs
171 # %i is expanded to a temporary file that contains the photo.
172 # %I is the same as %i, but the file isn't deleted afterwards by GnuPG.
173 # %k is expanded to the key ID of the key.
174 # %K is expanded to the long OpenPGP key ID of the key.
175 # %t is expanded to the extension of the image (e.g. "jpg").
176 # %T is expanded to the MIME type of the image (e.g. "image/jpeg").
177 # %f is expanded to the fingerprint of the key.
178 # %% is %, of course.
180 # If %i or %I are not present, then the photo is supplied to the
181 # viewer on standard input. If your platform supports it, standard
182 # input is the best way to do this as it avoids the time and effort in
183 # generating and then cleaning up a secure temp file.
185 # If no photo-viewer is provided, GnuPG will look for xloadimage, eog,
186 # or display (ImageMagick). On Mac OS X and Windows, the default is
187 # to use your regular JPEG image viewer.
189 # Some other viewers:
190 # photo-viewer "qiv %i"
191 # photo-viewer "ee %i"
193 # This one saves a copy of the photo ID in your home directory:
194 # photo-viewer "cat > ~/photoid-for-key-%k.%t"
196 # Use your MIME handler to view photos:
197 # photo-viewer "metamail -q -d -b -c %T -s 'KeyID 0x%k' -f GnuPG"
201 # We support the old experimental passphrase agent protocol as well as
202 # the new Assuan based one (currently available in the "newpg" package
203 # at ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/aegypten/). To make use of the agent,
204 # you have to run an agent as daemon and use the option
208 # which tries to use the agent but will fallback to the regular mode
209 # if there is a problem connecting to the agent. The normal way to
210 # locate the agent is by looking at the environment variable
211 # GPG_AGENT_INFO which should have been set during gpg-agent startup.
212 # In certain situations the use of this variable is not possible, thus
215 # --gpg-agent-info=<path>:<pid>:1
217 # may be used to override it.
219 # Automatic key location
221 # GnuPG can automatically locate and retrieve keys as needed using the
222 # auto-key-locate option. This happens when encrypting to an email
223 # address (in the "user@example.com" form), and there are no
224 # user@example.com keys on the local keyring. This option takes the
225 # following arguments, in the order they are to be tried:
227 # cert = locate a key using DNS CERT, as specified in 2538bis
228 # (currently in draft): http://www.josefsson.org/rfc2538bis/
230 # pka = locate a key using DNS PKA.
232 # ldap = locate a key using the PGP Universal method of checking
233 # "ldap://keys.(thedomain)".
235 # keyserver = locate a key using whatever keyserver is defined using
236 # the keyserver option.
238 # You may also list arbitrary keyservers here by URL.
240 # Try CERT, then PKA, then LDAP, then hkp://subkeys.net:
241 #auto-key-locate cert pka ldap hkp://subkeys.pgp.net