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Kiki Patterns
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Although kiki seems at a glance to have a lot of commands, there is a simple
rule for quickly learning six of them at once, by understanding that they are
all actually variations of one command which means 'exchange information'.
The variations come from first choosing one of 3 directions of information flow
(from, to, or both ways), and then choosing from one of 2 different kinds of
filters on information to exchange(public only, or unfiltered).
The 'from' and 'to' are always relative to your $HOME/.gnupgp folder (or
wherever you have configured to be your $GNUPGHOME). A 'from'-command copies
information from your $GNUPGHOME to files in other locations. A 'to'-command
copies information into keyrings inside $GNUPGHOME from other locations.
Consult the table below to learn the six 'exchange-information' commands of
kiki:
from | to | public | secret
--------------|------|----|--------|-----------
import-public | X | | X |
export-public | | X | X |
sync-public | X | X | X |
import-secret | X | | X | X
export-secret | | X | X | X
sync-secret | X | X | X | X
The four columns of this table are explained thusly:
from: information flows out of $GNUPGHOME
to: information flows into $GNUPGHOME
public: public information is copied
secret: private information is copied
Note that the sync-secret command is the most powerful command, capable of
exchanging information of either variety and in either direction and
simultaneously. Indeed, the presence of the other 5 commands is merely to make
kiki less error prone. The idea being, if you use import-public it is
impossible to accidentally copy secret data to your keyring and impossible to
accidentally expose any data at all from your keyring.
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