the difference between "gpg --armor --store" and "gpg --enarmor

vedaal at hush.com vedaal at hush.com
Mon May 16 15:37:10 CEST 2005



On Sun, 15 May 2005 22:49:01 -0700 gnupg-users-request at gnupg.org 
wrote:
>Message: 7
>Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 16:44:03 -0400
>From: David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com>
>Subject: Re: Difference "gpg --armor --store" Vs. "gpg --enarmor"

>--armor --store creates an armored OpenPGP message: a "literal
>message", which is unencrypted and unsigned.
>
>--enarmor armors whatever you feed it.  The result is not an 
>OpenPGP
>message.

another difference that might be of some practical interest,
is that 

--enarmor does not include a date/time stamp
but
--armor --store   does


vedaal



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