[LUNI] Re: [lula] PASSPHRASE echoing to pgp/gpg

From: Christopher Smith (x@xman.org)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2001 - 14:17:36 CST

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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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