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--On Monday, March 26, 2001 12:10:47 -0800 Michael Elkins <me@sigpipe.org>
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:39:50AM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote:
>> We are using PGP in a protected enterprise environment and need to do
>> this. We have 1000's of files coming in daily that need to be decrypted.
>>
>> Say what you will about protected enterprise environment...
>> I think I found my answer around the FAQ.
>
> Older versions of PGP consult the PGPPASSFD environment variable. So you
> can do things like:
>
> export PGPPASSFD=0; echo "my password" | pgp <file>
>
> with gpg its
> echo "my password"; gpg --passphrase-fd 0 <file>
Ah, how I get what is meant by "echoing the pass phrase". I had assumed it
meant displaying the pass phrase as you typed it in (presumably to be
captured and stored somewhere).
--Chris
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