armoring without encrypting or signing?

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed Jan 8 20:00:02 2003


On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:13:32 -0500, David Shaw said:

> All recent versions.. I don't know when the feature was added.

I added this because it was required by the test suite and to have
only text files in the tarball.  

> It's not.  This is a GnuPG-specific feature.  As it happens, PGP can
> usually handle it, but that is not guaranteed of course.

Its actual pretty trivial: Add the header lines, base64-encode the
stuff and append a header line.  You would be able to do everything
with standard Posix tools execpt for the armor checksum which is
OpenPGP specific.