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NAME
       GnuPG - The GNU Privacy Guard suite of programs

DESCRIPTION
       GnuPG is a set of programs for public key encryption and digital signa
       tures.  The program most users will want to use is the OpenPGP  command
       line  tool,  named gpg.	gpgv is a stripped down version of gpg with no
       encryption functionality, used only  to	verify	signatures  against  a
       trusted keyring.  There is also a tool called gpgsplit to split OpenPGP
       messages or keyrings into their component packets.  This is mainly use
       ful for seeing how OpenPGP messages are put together.

SEE ALSO
       gpg(1), gpgv(1),



GNU				  2002-09-02			      GNUPG(7)