Can I verify signatures without writing files?

[Oscar Levi]

On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 04:40:51PM -0600, Richard Lynch wrote:
> Try:
> 
> cat sig "\n" data | gpg --verify
> 
> The point being to get a return as a separator.
> Or maybe you need ^Z in there?
> Or maybe you could do:
> 
> echo sig | echo data | gpg --verify
> 
> Somehow break the sig and data into discrete things.
> 
> [Just guessing based on my experience trying to get gpg to do this kina stuff.]

No dice.  I suspect the problem is that it doesn't know where the data
to verify begins.  The signature data is fine because it is
packetized.

Thanks though.