Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)?

[gnupg at lists.grepular.com]

On 11/11/11 22:54, Chris Poole wrote:

>> I would just produce a list of SHA1s of the files and then sign that.
> 
> OK thanks, I hadn't thought of that. I'd still have to decrypt and re-encrypt
> them to keep hashes of all plaintext versions of the files though. (Thinking
> about running this script every few days and hashing the latest files pulled
> from the IMAP server; it'd be far easier just to find any files not ending in
> ".gpg" to hash.)

If you'd prefer to automatically encrypt your emails with your public
GPG key on delivery, rather than using a batch job every few days, you
can read up on the technique I use to do that here:
https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email

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