Win32 passphrase proposal

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Wed Jul 25 19:29:02 2001


On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:07:48PM -0500, Daryl Krauter wrote:

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> > > How true, but it really is no different than storing it
> > > in some file and passing it via the commandline arg '--passphrase-fd'.
> >
> > AFAIK nobody is seriously advocating using it for that. This is just
> > so that other programs can read the passphrase from the user and pass
> > it directly to gpg in a hopefully secure fashion.
> >
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> I should have stated this up front, but the only
> reason that I (or any one else AFAIK) would use '--passphrase-fd'
> is for automation. As such, all of this is under the context of '--batch'.
More than just automation. Any program that calls gpg to do something for it may use --passphrase-fd. For example, the mutt mail user agent has very nice gpg/pgp integration and hands the passphrase the user types over to gpg using --passphrase-fd. David -- David Shaw | dshaw@jabberwocky.com | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson