Convertir una clave pública de .asc a .gpg

Es muy sencillo convertir una clave pública codificada en formato base 64 como la siguiente a un formato binario:


-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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pUcFmY15XQFPPiZ9sHkJIceqG0XCw57l07SJk0D1EKc7GeMWZeiEimtPjhiBRg==
=BiyL
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Suponiendo que tenemos un fichero key.asc con el formato anterior que queremos convertir a binario, podemos usar el comando gpg:

gpg -o key.gpg --dearmor key.asc