Automate decryption

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Fri Aug 29 19:15:18 CEST 2008


On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Duwaine Robinson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> 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?
>
In general, yes, there are many ways to do it.   The details depend on  
what the goal is.  Is this a server doing the work (i.e. no human  
present), or do you just want to cache the passphrase so you don't  
have to retype it frequently?  Or... ?

Also, to give you the best information, can you tell me if you are  
using GnuPG 1.4 or GnuPG 2.0, as well as what platform (Linux, OSX,  
Windows, etc) you are running on.

David



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