decrypting input, not a file...

[Frank Tobin]

Paul Evad, at 19:24 -0700 on Wed, 17 May 2000, wrote:

> echo '$passphrase' | gpg -v --batch --no-secmem-warning 
> --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt $file
> 
> However, in a particular case... I would like to decrypt a 'string' 
> but don't want to necessarily write the 'string' to a file.

While I think using shell for anything sensitive is ridiculous...this
might work.  I don't recommend passing in passphrases to stdin, however,
in case you run situations where the passhrase isn't needed, and is
processed as part of the normal message by GnuPG.

echo "$passphrase\n$string" | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt


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