sq toolbox packet¶

Low-level packet manipulation.

An OpenPGP data stream consists of packets. These tools allow working with packet streams. They are mostly of interest to developers, but `sq toolbox packet dump` may be helpful to a wider audience both to provide valuable information in bug reports to OpenPGP-related software, and as a learning tool.

sq toolbox armor¶

Converts binary to ASCII.

To make encrypted data easier to handle and transport, OpenPGP data can be transformed to an ASCII representation called ASCII Armor. sq emits armored data by default, but this subcommand can be used to convert existing OpenPGP data to its ASCII-encoded representation.

The converse operation is `sq toolbox dearmor`.

sq toolbox dearmor¶

Converts ASCII to binary.

To make encrypted data easier to handle and transport, OpenPGP data can be transformed to an ASCII representation called ASCII Armor. sq transparently handles armored data, but this subcommand can be used to explicitly convert existing ASCII-encoded OpenPGP data to its binary representation.

The converse operation is `sq toolbox armor`.

sq toolbox armor¶

Convert a binary certificate to ASCII

sq toolbox armor binary-juliet.pgp

Convert a binary message to ASCII

sq toolbox armor binary-message.pgp

sq toolbox dearmor¶

Convert a ASCII certificate to binary

sq toolbox dearmor ascii-juliet.pgp

Convert a ASCII message to binary

sq toolbox dearmor ascii-message.pgp