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## 9 Helper Tools

GnuPG comes with a couple of smaller tools:

- Read logs from a socket
- Verify OpenPGP signatures
- Create .gnupg home directories
- Modify .gnupg home directories
- Run gpgconf for all users
- Put a passphrase into the cache
- Communicate with a running agent
- The Dirmngr Client Tool
- Parse a mail message into an annotated format
- Call a simple symmetric encryption tool
- Encrypt or sign files into an archive