How know who is a file encrypted for ?

Sebastien Chassot sinux at fsfe.org
Wed Feb 27 10:44:41 CET 2008


On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 10:00 +0100, Dirk Traulsen wrote:

> You don't believe me to enter 9 times a complete passphrase, do you?
> You are right, that it is possible to live with it, but why not 
> implement something more comfortable if it doesn't lower the security 
> level?
> 
> 

> While pgpdump gives an really interesting output, it does not deliver 
> what I asked for:
> A nicely formated list of the recipients of an encrypted file.
> 

I agree, normal users may want user friendly output and developers want
full debugging  output. There is two need and now only full (heavy)
output is available. 

Obviously users can make it with sed and awk but if there do so they are
developers and like verbose output ;)








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