File name seen by gpg

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Oct 31 19:34:45 CET 2018


On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:33, alvaro.gmj at gmail.com said:
> It seems I was not looking at the right keywords when I searched, because I couldn't find that option before.

Note that the filename stored with the encrypted or signed data is not
even convered by the signature.  Thus it is possible to anyone to change
the filename in a signed file and trick the recipient into creating a
file of that name.  This is why gpg does not use that name for the
output file.



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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