Possible to sign &/or encrypt without importing to keyring

[Harakiri]

--- On Thu, 3/25/10, dcbarry <david at dcbarry.com> wrote:

> From: dcbarry <david at dcbarry.com>
> Subject: Possible to sign &/or encrypt without importing to keyring
> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 5:09 PM

> As I said, I'm pretty sure my answer is no, but I'm hoping
> I've missed
> something obvious that in fact, makes it possible.
> 
> 

if you are using bash to encrypt when not do (pseudo syntax)

gpg --public-keyring tmp_keyring --import key.asc && gpg --public-keyring tmp_keyring --encrypt myfile.txt && tmp_keyring

you can even define an alias for this in your bash.rc 
or either simly convert all those single public keys to single keyrings

however as already said, the keymanagement is horrible, sadly