gnupg: GPGSM SIGN

 
 5.6.3 Signing a Message
 -----------------------
 
 Signing is usually done with these commands:
 
        INPUT FD[=N] [--armor|--base64|--binary]
 
    This tells 'GPGSM' to read the data to sign from file descriptor N.
 
        OUTPUT FD[=M] [--armor|--base64]
 
    Write the output to file descriptor M.  If a detached signature is
 requested, only the signature is written.
 
        SIGN [--detached]
 
    Sign the data set with the 'INPUT' command and write it to the sink
 set by 'OUTPUT'.  With '--detached', a detached signature is created
 (surprise).
 
    The key used for signing is the default one or the one specified in
 the configuration file.  To get finer control over the keys, it is
 possible to use the command
 
        SIGNER USERID
 
    to set the signer's key.  USERID should be the internal
 representation of the key; the server may accept any other way of
 specification.  If this is a valid and trusted recipient the server does
 respond with OK, otherwise the return is an ERR with the reason why the
 key cannot be used, the signature will then not be created using this
 key.  If the policy is not to sign at all if not all keys are valid, the
 client has to take care of this.  All 'SIGNER' commands are cumulative
 until a 'RESET' is done.  Note that a 'SIGN' does not reset this list of
 signers which is in contrast to the 'RECIPIENT' command.