Subcommand options

--amount=AMOUNT

The required amount of trust

120 indicates full authentication; values less than 120 indicate partial authentication. When `--certification-network` is passed, this defaults to 1200, i.e., this command tries to find 10 paths.

--certification-network

Treats the network as a certification network

Normally, the authentication machinery treats the Web of Trust network as an authentication network where a certification only means that the binding is correct, not that the target should be treated as a trusted introducer. In a certification network, the targets of certifications are treated as trusted introducers with infinite depth, and any regular expressions are ignored. Note: The trust amount remains unchanged. This is how most so-called PGP path-finding algorithms work.

--email=EMAIL

Authenticate the specified email address

This checks whether it is possible to authenticate the user ID consisting of just specified email address. The user ID does not need to be self signed.

--userid=USERID

Authenticate the specified user ID

The specified user ID does not need to be self signed.

--userid-by-email=EMAIL

Authenticate the self-signed user ID with the specified email address

This checks whether it is possible to authenticate the self-signed user ID with the specified email address.

If the certificate is invalid or there is no self-signed user ID with the specified email address, uses a user ID with just the email address.

FINGERPRINT|KEYID

The path to authenticate

A path consists of one or more certificates. The first certificate is the root, and the last certificate is the one being authenticated for the specified user ID.

Global options

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