Saving verification results (was: beginner questions,)

[Anthony E . Greene]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:42:43 Satish Artham wrote:
>That's exactly what I want.  I'd like to receive an encrypted document via
>HTTP, decrypt the document, and be able to verify that the signer of the
>document is the same person that sent me the document.

Assuming I have received a signed/encrypted data file named "datafile.gpg",
I would do this:

  gpg datafile.doc.gpg 2> datafile.doc.sigdata

The "2>" is a bash shell command that redirects STDERR to a file. STDERR is
the file descriptor GPG uses to output it's verification results.

The unencrypted data would be stored in "datafile.doc" and the results of
GPG's verification would be stored in "datafile.doc.sigdata". The original
signed/encrypted file would be untouched if you needed to verify it again
later.

Tony
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