PGP key extraction
% pgp -kxa
Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.2 - Public-key encryption for the masses.
(c) 1990-1994 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 11 Oct 94
Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
Distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
Current time: 1996/11/09 13:04 GMT
A user ID is required to select the key you want to extract.
Enter the key's user ID: don
Extracting from key ring: '/home/watrous/.pgp/pubring.pgp', userid "don".
Key for user ID: Donald A Watrous <watrous@cs.rutgers.edu>
1024-bit key, Key ID 85082CD5, created 1996/11/09
Extract the above key into which file? mypublickey.asc
Transport armor file: mypublickey.asc
Key extracted to file 'mypublickey.asc'.
% cat mypublickey.asc
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.6.2
mQCNAzKEgQgAAAEEALoDOnC4PKs4+G5LBXm5aP4djv56wm9kOCzpk4eEcpm0jNtl
IKyuAf1EXauFVCFSCri11hwUCXm5kv4x5bNYyE6NqxY29G9VU4Niwmt7L8dGIqHu
kS4FXcufA6sSMfoM8+oIzOv8d18dYhyf4PvAyl43EPgne/pw1c4T3nOFCCzVAAUR
tClEb25hbGQgQSBXYXRyb3VzIDx3YXRyb3VzQGNzLnJ1dGdlcnMuZWR1Pg==
=iSNZ
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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