Encrypt to a key without importing it to keyring

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Fri Nov 24 08:13:12 CET 2017


On Freitag, 24. November 2017 02:44:08 CET Seby wrote:
> Back to the subject, saving to at least a temporary keyring is my only
> solution? Nothing else I can use in batch mode to serve the armored
> key from clipboard somehow and do the operation?

Yes.


> If this is the only solution, what are the safety recommendations for
> a use case where many many parallel requests will be sent to do
> operations (possibly even using the same public key) so things don't
> break? Does it help if I randomize --homedir and make it different
> with every request / command?

A possible solution for many parallel requests (you need to verify its 
viability) could be some kind of containerization (e.g. Docker or something 
more low-level). If every request is handled by a new container then all 
operations are nicely isolated and nothing can break.


Regards,
Ingo




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