Conventions, type setting and license

Suffixes

This guide uses the following filename suffixes:

  • certificates: .cert
  • keys: .key
  • encrypted messages: .pgp
  • cleartext messages: .txt
  • detached signatures: .sig
  • revocation certificates: .rev

Type settings

For shell commands, we use the unix-typical $ character for the shell prompt (which may differ from yours), followed by the actual command. The output of the command is appended if needed to highlight certain aspects.

$ sq version
sq 1.3.0
using sequoia-openpgp 2.0.0
with cryptographic backend Nettle 3.8 (Cv448: true, OCB: false)

This guide is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 International license. It is based on https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.txt, but typeset via Markdown, using commit b1a347d40d2a50ed345a9b152248cca6b9f0f803 of Creative-Commons-Markdown.git. It matches the plain text version, linked above, except for typesetting. In case of differences, the plain text version is authoritative.