Encrypt with public key from stdin/file possible?

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On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, David Shaw wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Sargon wrote:
>> I have a public key of a recipient in ASCII or binary form and would 
>> like to feed gpg w/o importing it first in its public keyring and 
>> afterwards specify the ID of the public key. According to my researches 
>> on the net and on the gnupg.org site, there's no way to do this though.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm this?
>
> You can't do it without importing the key, but you can sort of fake what 
> you want.  Do something like:
>
>  gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./tempkeyring.gpg --import  (thekey)
>  gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./tempkeyring.gpg --encrypt  ......
>  rm tempkeyring.gpg
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there's a better way to fake it... let's say you want to encrypt a message 
to me, and have my key in a binary file "D9F57808.key":

   gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /path/to/D9F57808.key -er D9F57808

you may want to add "--trust-model always" to the command.

this only works with binary, not ascii, key files. keys in ascii would 
have to be converted into binary, or use the import method described by 
david.


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