GPG equivalent of PGP's --group option?

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu Aug 12 17:23:17 CEST 2004


On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:28:57PM -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 12:17, David Shaw wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:45:05PM -0500, Kerry Walker wrote:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > I use PGP to encrypt data for sending to various end users by
> > > encrypting files using their public key they have provided.  To make
> > > it possible for me to associate their key with a meaningful user_id
> > > , I use the PGP --group-add option to create a group name containing
> <SNIP>
> > Yes, there is a --group command.  Stick in your gpg.conf file:
> > 
> > group name_you_want_to_use = keyid1 keyid2 keyid3 keyid4
> > 
> 
> Is there a limit as to how people to whom a message can be encrypted. 
> In the old days of pgp2.6.x the limit was three.

There is no set limit, but you may eventually run out of space on the
command line.

David



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