How can I extract multiple keys into a single armored file?
• A number of people have more than one public key that they would like to make available. One way of doing this is executing the “-kxa” command for each key you wish to extract from the key ring into separate armored files, then appending all the individual files into a single long file with multiple armored blocks. This is not as convenient as having all of your keys in a single armored block. • Unfortunately, the present version of PGP does not allow you to do this directly. Fortunately, there is an indirect way to do it. • I would like to thank Robert Joop for supplying the following method which is simpler than the method that I had previously given. • solution 1: • pgp -kxaf uid1 > extract • pgp -kxaf uid2 >> extract • pgp -kxaf uid3 >> extract • Someone who does a pgp extract processes the individual keys, one by one. that’s inconvinient. • solution 2: • pgp -kx uid1 extract • pgp -kx uid2 extract • pgp -kx uid3 extract • This puts all three keys into extract.pgp. To get an asci
