Bypass Invalid Public key

[Peter Pentchev]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:35:48PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:01:39PM -0500, Duwaine Robinson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Is there a way to get GnuPG to complete encryption, if there is at least
> > one valid public key specified? I am trying automate my encryption
> > process, and I am hoping to be able to get away with not having to
> > specify error handling if one or more of my public keys does not exist
> > on the key ring.
> > 
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > Thank you
> 
> I'm not sure that what you're asking would be such a good idea; after
> all, it boils down to "let GnuPG report success even if it did not
> really do most of what you asked it to, with no real way of knowing
> which parts it did do and which parts it didn't" :)

Oookay, okay, I know, I know, I know - you *can* try running GnuPG on
the *encrypted* file later and find out which keys it is actually
encrypted to, but in my book, that goes under "nonsensical effort".

[almost snip my "--list-keys --with-colons output processing" suggestion]
>   gpg --list-keys --with-colons 16194553 87E057BE 5DBFAB91
>   awk -F: '$1 == "pub" && $12 ~ /E/ { print $5 }'

That part still stands :)

G'luck,
Peter

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This would easier understand fewer had omitted.
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