> > Is there any difference between the effects of following commands? > > > > gpg -e -R alice -R bob file > > > > gpg -e -r alice -r bob --throw-keyid file > > Since you are using -R (which does a per-recipient --throw-keyid) for > both recipients, there is no difference between the two commands.
I suppose gpg -e -r alice -R bob file might be useful in unusual circumstances! > > And when I abbreviate --throw-keyid to --throw or --throw-keyi even, I > > get the error: > > > > gpg: Option "--throw-key" is ambiguous > > > > > > There is nothing else that starts with the string "throw" so why? > > There is: there are both options --throw-keyid and --throw-keyids > (they do the same thing). Come to think though, --throw-keyid could > be removed since is effectively an abbreviation of --throw-keyids. Aha, I had not noticed those two very similar options. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
