A Key-gen-config file that autodeletes?

[Len Sassaman]

Ah. Here's a reason to have a wipe function in GnuPG, similar to "pgp -w".
Simply rm'ing a file that has the passphrase in it might not be enough for
some people.

On 10 Sep 2001, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:14:11 +0800, Edward Khoo said:
>
> > Is there any way to have gpg use a configuration file (semi-colon separated list?) to get the necessary information --
> > name;email;comment;cipher choice; key length; expiry date; and
> > passphrase. And then rm/shred the configuration files automatically?
>
> #!/bin/sh
> gpg --gen-key --batch <$1
> rm $1
>
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