pass phrase

[Chuck Robey]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Chip Christian wrote:

> 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"
>         }


I was going to say, embedding the passphrase inside the tcl script would
be even worse security ... then I noticed you used a variable ...

You mean use the script itself to read the passphrase file, then using the
piece above to do it?  Now that's a decent idea ...

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