SQ(1) User Commands SQ(1)

sq sign - Sign messages or data files

sq sign [OPTIONS] FILE

Sign messages or data files.

Creates signed messages or detached signatures. Detached signatures are often used to sign software packages.

The converse operation is `sq verify`.

`sq sign` respects the reference time set by the top-level `--time` argument. When set, it uses the specified time instead of the current time, when determining what keys are valid, and it sets the signature's creation time to the reference time instead of the current time.

Append a signature to existing signature
Emit binary data
Create a cleartext signature
Create a detached signature
Merge signatures from the input and SIGNED-MESSAGE
Sign a message and all existing signatures
Add a notation to the certification. A user-defined notation's name must be of the form `name@a.domain.you.control.org`. If the notation's name starts with a `!`, then the notation is marked as being critical. If a consumer of a signature doesn't understand a critical notation, then it will ignore the signature. The notation is marked as being human readable.
Write to FILE or stdout if omitted
[default: -]
Sign the message using the specified key on the key store
Sign the message using the key in KEY_FILE
Read from FILE or stdin if FILE is '-'
[default: -]

See sq(1) for a description of the global options.

Create a signed message.

sq sign --signer-file juliet-secret.pgp document.txt

Create a detached signature.

sq sign --signer-file juliet-secret.pgp --detached \
document.txt

Create a signature with the specified creation time.

sq sign --signer-file juliet-secret.pgp --time 2024-02-29 \
--detached document.txt

sq(1).

For the full documentation see https://book.sequoia-pgp.org.

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