A Key-gen-config file that autodeletes?

[Samuel }slund]

Hi

After the comment below about refering to the file doc/DETAILS someone
should mention that the entire doc subdirectory is left out in the Windows
distribution of GnuPG.

//Samuel

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:

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> On Dienstag, 11. September 2001 18:54, Edward Khoo wrote:
> > Hi folks,

<<<<Snip >>>>

> > Also, this conversation have taken us away from my original concern
> > of automating the passing in of interactive parameters.
> > (assuming its a 'secure' computer)
> > - How to get "--batch" to work in either command line or scripting
> > support? - or If "--batch" is the option to use to pass in a config
> > file in the first place?
> >
> > Here is Werner's original suggestion:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > gpg --gen-key --batch <$1
> > rm $1
> >
> > Which did not work for me, as I am not sure of the data format that
> > will be accepted.
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> 'man gpg' would have told you the following
> <quote>
> - --gen-key Generate  a  new  key pair. This command is nor=AD
>                  mally only used interactively.
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>                  There is an experimental  feature  which  allows
>                  you  to  create keys in batch mode. See the file
>                  doc/DETAILS in the source distribution on how to
>                  use this.
> </quote>
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> And this is copied from doc/DETAILS:
> <quote>
> Here is an example:
> $ cat >foo <<EOF
>      %echo Generating a standard key
>      Key-Type: DSA
>      Key-Length: 1024
>      Subkey-Type: ELG-E
>      Subkey-Length: 1024
>      Name-Real: Joe Tester
>      Name-Comment: with stupid passphrase
>      Name-Email: joe@foo.bar
>      Expire-Date: 0
>      Passphrase: abc
>      %pubring foo.pub
>      %secring foo.sec
>      # Do a commit here, so that we can later print "done" :-)
>      %commit
>      %echo done
> EOF
> $ gpg --batch --gen-key -a foo
>  [...]
> $ gpg --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring foo.sec \
>                                   --keyring foo.pub --list-secret-keys
> /home/wk/work/gnupg-stable/scratch/foo.sec
> - ------------------------------------------
> sec  1024D/915A878D 2000-03-09 Joe Tester (with stupid passphrase) <joe@f=
oo.bar>
> ssb  1024g/8F70E2C0 2000-03-09
> </quote>
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> If you have more questions have a look at doc/DETAILS where the format
> is explained in detail.
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> Regards,
> Ingo
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