Automate decryption

[Robert J. Hansen]

Duwaine Robinson wrote:
> I want to automate decryption with GnuPG and I am not sure how is the
> best way to go about handling the passphrase. Anybody have any ideas,
> suggestions or any failed attempts to speak of?

It's fairly easy to automate things with Perl.  Biggest concern will be
keeping the file unreadable by other users, though, since your
passphrase will be in the file.