NAME

armor - Converts binary to ASCII

SYNOPSIS

armor [-o|--output] [--label] [-h|--help] [ FILE]

DESCRIPTION

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 dearmor".

OPTIONS

-o, --output=FILE
Writes to FILE or stdout if omitted
--label=LABEL [default: auto] [possible values: auto, message, cert, key, sig, file]
Selects the kind of armor header
-h, --help
Print help information
[FILE]
Reads from FILE or stdin if omitted

EXAMPLES


Convert a binary certificate to ASCII 
 sq armor binary-juliet.pgp


Convert a binary message to ASCII 
 sq armor binary-message.pgp

SEE ALSO

For the full documentation see <https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sq/>.
sq(1) sq-autocrypt(1) sq-certify(1) sq-dearmor(1) sq-decrypt(1) sq-encrypt(1) sq-inspect(1) sq-key(1) sq-keyring(1) sq-keyserver(1) sq-packet(1) sq-revoke(1) sq-sign(1) sq-verify(1) sq-wkd(1)