A last word on --passphrase-fd

[Chuck Robey]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > How does either of your two options deal with a process started on a
> > regular basis by cron?  No daemon to store the passphrase in ram with, and
> > impossible to make interactive input.
> 
> Use unprotected keys.  Encrypting something and storing the key on
> the same medium remembers if of DVDs :0)

Uhh.  I'm not the crypto-whiz you are.  I understand (I think) the DVD
story.  Can you tell me why needing crypto signatures on output of a cron
job equates to the DVD story?  No sarcasm here, I really don't know.

> 
> 

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