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.

Emit binary data
Append a signature to existing signature
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: -]
Provide parameters for private key store
Sign the message using the key in KEY_FILE
Sign the message using the specified key on the key store
Read from FILE or stdin if omitted
[default: -]

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

Create a signed message

sq sign --signer-file juliet.pgp message.txt

Create a detached signature

sq sign --detached --signer-file juliet.pgp message.txt

Create a signature with the specified creation time

sq sign --time 20020304 --detached --signer-file juliet.pgp \
message.txt

sq(1).

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

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