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SQ(1)				  User Commands 			   SQ(1)

NAME
     sq-packet-armor - Convert binary to ASCII

SYNOPSIS
     sq packet 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  ar-
     mored  data by default, but this subcommand can be used to convert existing
     OpenPGP data to its ASCII-encoded representation.

     The converse operation is `sq packet dearmor`.

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

	    [default: auto]

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

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

	    [default: -]

      FILE  Read from FILE or stdin if FILE is '-'

	    [default: -]

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

EXAMPLES
     Convert a binary OpenPGP message to an ASCII armored OpenPGP message.

	    sq packet armor message.bin

     Convert a binary OpenPGP message to an ASCII armored  OpenPGP  message  ex-
     plicitly choosing the armor label.

	    sq packet armor --label=message message.bin

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

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

VERSION
     1.3.1

Sequoia PGP			      1.3.1				   SQ(1)

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