incrementel asymetric encryption?

[Mads Laursen]

On 21/11/04 19.01, Jan Lühr wrote:
> Greetings,...
> Am Sonntag, 21. November 2004 13:12 schrieben Sie:
> > | But how  can I decrypt the whole log at once - or how can I encrypt
> >
> > the log
> >
> > | incremental, to create one big GPG Message?
> >
> > Well, the log is full of GPG start/end headers like
> >
> > You can use csplit(3) to split the logs into corresponding PGP chunks.
> > Something like:
> 
> >  for i in xx*; do gpg <OPTIONS> $i -o $i.out; done
> 
> Well, by that, I can either use a key without a passphrase or I have to enter 
> the passphrase several times.  But I want to decrypt the whole log at once 
> without not having any passphrase and without entering some a dozen times.

How about writing a small script to do it. Just have the script prompt
for the password and feed it to each gpg-instance via the
--passphrase-fd option. Not as safe as letting gpg prompt for it, but
it should be doable without resorting to having the password in a file.

/dossen
-- 
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