pass phrase

[Chip Christian]

If you're writing in Tcl, why not something like this:

    if  [ catch { exec gpg --batch --passphrase-fd 0 \
                      --output ${dst} --decrypt ${src} \
                      << "${passphrase}\n"} foo ] {
        send_user "${foo}\n"
        }
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> > 
> > > Please don't tell me you are using shell.  Use Perl or some other
> > > system-level scripting language.  There are modules on CPAN for
> > 
> > What's wrong with a shell script and some AWKing - I like it 
> 
> Using an auxiliary file seemed like a weakening of security.  I asked a
> friend of mine if this was so, he agreed it wasn't so good, which is why I
> wanted to avoid even the one-liner shell script I'm currently calling as a
> intermediary to gpg.
> 
> Isn't there a way to suppress the argument listing?  I know that, under
> FreeBSD current, you can't even see the environment unless you're root or
> the owning user.
> 
> > 
> > 
> 
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