GPG decryption within shell scripts.

Ben Finney ben@benfinney.id.au
Wed Jul 30 01:54:01 2003


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On 29-Jul-2003, Joseph Bruni wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 04:50PM, Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> w=
rote:
> >In short: once you automate the use of crypto, your authentication
> >model is reduced to the one used to access the files involved in the
> >automated process.  In which case, why use encryption at all?
>
> Because files and data in-transit are still more secure with
> encryption than without encryption. Don't you use SSL? That's
> automated crypto.

Conceded (and clarified in another post).

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