stripping header-information

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu Dec 20 21:30:02 2001


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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:08:33PM +0100, Georg Lutz wrote:

> is there a simple way to strip header information which identifies a
> file as gnupg-encrypted?
>=20
> There is no gpg-option, but I suppose that it should be possible; at
> least for symetric-encryption.
>=20
> Sometimes it could be useful if an eavesdropper is not able to distinct
> beetween random noise and a real message.

It sounds like you are talking about something like PGP stealth
(http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/stealth/) The stealth program only
works with PGP 2.x.  It does not work with GnuPG, or any version of
PGP after 2.

David

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