Script with sensitive info

[James R. Hendrick]

You should look at Perl modules related to GnuPG.=20

www.cpan.org has a number (if you search on gnupg)

I haven't had any personal experience using them, but it looks fairly =
straightforward. The one that looks most promising is GnuPG::Interface. =
It has functions for working with filehandles (needed to pass gnupg the =
passphrases, etc.) That way you could read the passphrase on startup and =
use it internally in the script.

Maybe someone with more experience directly using this module can chime =
in?

Jim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kynn@panix.com [mailto:kynn@panix.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:14 AM
> To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: Script with sensitive info
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>    From: "James R. Hendrick" <hendrick@keane-nne.com>
>    Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:41:50 -0400
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>    You *can* require that a human input that key when the script
>    starts up (maybe once per system boot). This still requires the key
>    stay in memory in the clear (better than disk, but still possible
>    to access).
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> I like this idea.  So let me ask a simpler question (I'm a complete
> PGP/Gnupg novice): is there a good way to use Gnupg from within a Perl
> script to encrypt and decrypt a text string based on a user-supplied
> password?
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> Many thanks,
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> KJ
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