SQ(1)                            User Commands                           SQ(1)

NAME
       sq toolbox armor - Convert binary to ASCII

SYNOPSIS
       sq toolbox armor [OPTIONS] FILE

DESCRIPTION
       Convert 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`.



OPTIONS
   Subcommand options
       --label=LABEL
              Select the kind of armor header

              [default: auto]

              [possible values: auto, message, cert, key, sig, file]

       -o, --output=FILE
              Write to FILE or stdout if omitted

              [default: -]

        FILE  Read from FILE or stdin if omitted

              [default: -]

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

EXAMPLES
       Convert a binary certificate to ASCII

              sq toolbox armor binary-juliet.pgp



       Convert a binary message to ASCII

              sq toolbox armor binary-message.pgp

SEE ALSO
       sq(1), sq-toolbox(1).

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

VERSION
       0.35.0 (sequoia-openpgp 1.20.0)

Sequoia PGP                         0.35.0                               SQ(1)