monkeyscan (1)

monkeyscan [options]

This command will fire up a graphical interface and turn on the webcam (if available) on this computer. It will also display a qr-code of your main OpenPGP key.

The webcam is used to capture an OpenPGP fingerprint represented as a qrcode (or whatever the zbar library can parse) and then go through a signing process.

The signature is then encrypted and mailed to the user. This leave the choice of publishing the certification to that person and makes sure that person owns the identity signed.

This program assumes you have gpg-agent configure to prompt for passwords.

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--version

show version information and quit

-d, --debug

request debugging information from GPG engine (lots of garbage)

-v, --verbose

explain what we do along the way

-n, --dry-run

do not actually do anything

-u USER, --user=USER

user id to sign the key with (equivalent to GPG's --local-user option)

--cert-level=CERTLEVEL

certification level to sign the key with (equivalent to GPG's --default-cert-level)

-l, --local

import in normal keyring a local certification

-k KEYSERVER, --keyserver=KEYSERVER

keyserver to fetch keys from

-s SMTPSERVER, --smtp=SMTPSERVER

SMTP server to use, use a colon to specify the port number if non-standard

--smtpuser=SMTPUSER

username for the SMTP server (default: no user)

--smtppass=SMTPPASS

password for the SMTP server (default: prompted, if --smtpuser is specified)

--no-mail

do not send email at all (default: use sendmail)

-t TO, --to=TO

override destination email for testing (default: send individually encrypted email to each uid chosen)

monkeysign was written by Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>.

The latest version of monkeysign may be downloaded from