
Installing GnuPG 79
The only difference between this command and the previ-
ous one is the addition of the --armor option. But the file we
get is human-readable, and looks something like this:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD)
mQGiBEIL3skRBADyThL7faGX/JL7xZYL6TPYJzvxn5qHUTAO9Hw4o99OLTLMI7J3
14g6i7XTS37C90ntI8hAFZV7yaXXj5dA5pduIkuEVAmxat4OydPqqE31XNScIAnq
...
After a few dozen lines of these characters, you’ll see a line
like this one:
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
There’s your public key, in human-readable form. Of
course, human-readable is obviously a very loose term;
although you can read this, it doesn’t mean ...