Newbie question - how to include the pass phrase in the command

[Ping Kam]

Thanks to all those helping me.  Now I get some idea about how GPG works.

But I am quite confused.  I always thought that it will require the userid
and password pair to encrypt and decrypt files.  It seems like GPG only
needs the userids.  So any one knows how to use GPG, knows your userid and
the recipient's userid, and have access to your computer can encrypt and
decrypt on your computer.  It seems to me that the userid is even more
important than the pass phrase.  Right?

Ping Kam



----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Butler" <sbutler@fchn.com>
To: "'Ping Kam'" <pkam@quikcard.com>; <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 12:24 PM
Subject: RE: Newbie question - how to include the pass phrase in the command


>
>
> I'd change this from:
>
> echo %1|gpg  --encrypt --output %2.asc --armour --recipient
> our_own_userid --encrypt-to the_recipient_userid --passphrase-fd 0 %2
>
>
> To this <<all on one line>>:
>
> echo %1 | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --armour --recipient %3 --encrypt-to
> <<our_own_userid>> --sign --output %2.asc --encrypt %2
>
>
>
> Then invoke it:
>
> my_gpg "my passphrase" my_file to_whom_it_concerns
>
> Of course, that's without a blank passphrase.
>
> If your passphrase is blank, then the following should work:
>
> gpg --armour --recipient %1 --encrypt-to
<<our_own_userid>> --sign --output
> %2.asc --encrypt %2
>
>
> Then invoke it:
>
> my_gpg  to_whom_it_concerns   my_file
>
>
>
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