conventional encryption with passphrase remaining blank?

Adam Pavelec apavelec@benefit-services.com
Tue Nov 12 18:06:01 2002


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On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:14 AM [GMT-0500=EST], Jeffrey
Bloss <jbloss@alltel.net> wrote:

>> word documents, pdf's, spreadsheets, images, etc.
>> all require detached signatures.
> 
> I <sigh> haven't reinstalled GPG after a recent hardware failure and
> rebuild, but I'd be surprised to find that GPG doesn't allow ASCII
> armoring of "binary" data like PGP does, and thus an "attached"
> signature. I've done this with PGP and MS Word documents about a
> billion times....

Yep, I do it almost daily.  See the attachment for an example...

- --Adam


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