Self Decrypting Archives

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu Jun 19 23:19:01 2003


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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:07:36PM -0400, Jeff Herrin wrote:
> Nobody is actually clicking on anything. The file creation, the encryption,
> the FTP transfers, the decryption is all done automatically by scripts that
> are designed to specifically handle SDAs. I know they have the ability with
> their commercial version of PGP to handle whatever I send them but their
> system is specifically looking to read from an FTP folder and decrypt it as
> an SDA.

So, what is an SDA?  An SDA is a program, that when executed, decrypts
an internal payload and deposits said payload in an unencrypted
fashion.

How is what I said different than this definition of a SDA?  If you
are looking for a a "SDA created by the PGP program", then obviously
GnuPG can't help you.

David
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