SQ(1)

NAME
sq pki identify - Identify a certificate

SYNOPSIS
sq pki identify [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
Identify a certificate.

Identify a certificate by finding authenticated bindings (User ID and certificate pairs).

An error is return if no binding could be authenticated to the specified level (by default: fully authenticated, i.e., a trust amount of 120).

If a binding could be partially authenticated (i.e., its trust amount is greater than 0), then the binding is displayed, even if the trust is below the specified threshold.

OPTIONS

  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.

--cert=FINGERPRINT|KEYID
    Use certificates with the specified fingerprint or key ID

--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.

--gossip
    Treats all certificates as unreliable trust roots

    This option is useful for figuring out what others think about a certificate (i.e., gossip or hearsay). In other words, this finds arbitrary paths to a particular certificate.

    Gossip is useful in helping to identify alternative ways to authenticate a certificate. For instance, imagine Ed wants to authenticate Laura's certificate, but asking her directly is inconvenient. Ed discovers that Micah has certified Laura's certificate, but Ed hasn't yet authenticated Micah's certificate. If Ed is willing to rely on Micah as a trusted introducer, and authenticating Micah's certificate is easier than authenticating Laura's certificate, then Ed has learned about an easier way to authenticate Laura's certificate.

    Stable since 1.1.0.

--show-paths
    Show why a binding is authenticated

    By default, only a user ID and certificate binding's degree of authentication (a value between 0 and 120) is shown. This changes the output to also show how that value was computed by showing the paths from the trust roots to the bindings.

--unusable
    Show bindings that are unusable

    Normally, unusable certificates and bindings are not shown. This option considers bindings, even if they are not unusable, because they (or the certificates) are not valid according to the policy, are revoked, or are not live.

    This option only makes sense with `--gossip`, because unusable bindings are still considered unauthenticated.

    Stable since 1.1.0.

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

EXAMPLES

Identify the user IDs that can be authenticated for the certificate.

    sq pki identify --cert \
        EB28F26E2739A4870ECC47726F0073F60FD0CBF0

List all user IDs that have that have been certified by anyone.

    sq pki identify --gossip --cert \
        511257EBBF077B7AEDAE5D093F68CB84CE537C9A

SEE ALSO
sq(1), sq-pki(1).

For the full documentation see <https://book.sequoia-pgp.org>.

VERSION
1.2.0 (sequoia-openpgp 1.22.0)