A Key-gen-config file that autodeletes?

[Edward Khoo]

Actually I was also considering about shred'ing the config file. :-)
(A tot just occured, how about read-once device that self destruct 
afterwards....too much movies :-))

But the format of the config file (to be pass in) is yet to be 
determine, oh?

Len Sassaman wrote:

>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.
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>On 10 Sep 2001, Werner Koch wrote:
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>>On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:14:11 +0800, Edward Khoo said:
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>>>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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