use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

sweepslate sweepslate at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 21:22:25 CEST 2011


This works, thank you :)

On 10/17/2011 4:09 PM, Hauke Laging wrote:
> Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011, 13:51:03 schrieb sweepslate:
>> The end goal is to encrypt a volume of around 100GB of personal files
>> that I'll be carrying arround with me in a portable drive.
>
>> The key point is doing the encryption of 14000 files in a
>> non-interactive way.
>
> echo fubar | gpg --symmetric --passphrase-fd 0 --batch file.txt
>
> Or use --passphrase-file
>
>
> Hauke



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