Self Decrypting Archives

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu Jun 19 19:05:02 2003


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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:28:09PM -0400, Jeff Herrin wrote:

> I have been looking throught the docs and I can't find anything
> related to the creation of Self Decrypting Archives. Does gnupg
> support this? If so where can I find more information about to
> generate an SDA?

GnuPG does not support this, and likely will never support this.  SDAs
are wildly, tragically, insecure.  Think about it: someone is sending
you a *program* and saying "please run this for me!"

David
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