verifying detached signitures using stdin

[Damon Kelly]

I've been extending a .NET wrapper that I found for pgp. It's quite a
nice wrapper because it uses stdin, stdout and stderr and uses no temp
files. It lacked the ability to create detached signatures and to verify
them so I decided to add those functions in.

Creating the detached signatures was fine but verifying them proved to
be a bit problematic because you need to pass the data to stdin twice
when you run the command like this:

gpg --armor --verify - -

I can do it fine when using the console and going ^Z after each input
but I can't seem to simulate the same thing in my program because I
believe ^Z is closing stdin and once I close it I can't re open it.

I did some searching on google and found a post to this group about the
exact same thing and an answer to it.

The original post and the answer are below:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2002-November/012987.html

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2002-November/012989.html

The answer that seemed to work for the original poster is below:

gpg --enable-special-filenames --verify - '-&5' <sig 5<data

The only thing is I'm not sure how to implement the below answer, and if
it will work with the windows version of pgp.