Flag to pass the passphrase dynamically while decrypting...

[Loo, Peter]

How would you handle this in Windows arena?  I hate Windows, but I am =
having to deal with this for our clients.

Thanks.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael H. Warfield [mailto:mhw@wittsend.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:54 PM
To: Loo, Peter
Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: Re: Flag to pass the passphrase dynamically while decrypting...


On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:38:23PM -0700, Loo, Peter wrote:

> Hi,

> Does anyone know how I can go about decrypting a file dynamically =
without getting prompted for a passphrase?  Under the licensed version =
of PGP, you are able to accomplish this by issuing a command like the =
following:

> pgp --decrypt --passphrase "xoxoxoxoxoxo" --output $file.txt =
$file.txt.pgp --overwrite

> I was unable to find the flag --passphrase in "gpg --help".

	echo "xoxoxoxoxoxo" | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 ...

> Thanks.=20

> Peter Loo (Senior Programmer)
> peter.loo@bannerhealth.com <mailto:peter.loo@bannerhealth.com>=20

> "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that =
you do it."
> -- Mahatma Gandhi

	Mike
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