Detached signature that is not one

[Sascha Kiefer]

Hi,

i actually use "--status-fd 1" but there is nothing on that that tells me that something is waiting for the datafile. in that case i would just handle that status and kill gpg if i dont have any datafile.

>On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:28, sk at intertivity.com said:
>
>> Today there was this spam email. It only had an body which gpg recognized 
>as
>> an detached signature
>> and asked me for the datafile. Which of course, i didn`t have. Please find
>> the body of the email attached.
>>
>> Is this a bug in gpg? (tried ver. 1.4 and 1.4.7)
>> How can i prevent gpg to ask for the datafile but just failing?
>
>Pass --batch to gpg and it won't ask for the data file.  Also make sure
>that you stdin is connected to /dev/null so that gpg won't expect the
>data on stdin.
>
>Of course this means that you need to supply the passphrase by other
>means.  Some applications run gpg first to check whether a passphrase is
>required and then re-run w/o --batch.  Or use the status/command
>interface to decide what to do.  GPGME should make things easier for
>you.
>
>
>Shalom-Salam,
>
>   Werner
>
>-- 
>Die Gedanken sind frei.  Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz.
>