encrypt file in batch mode

Fourhundred Thecat 400thecat at gmx.ch
Mon Nov 4 18:16:32 CET 2019


On 04/11/2019 17.12, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Mon,  4 Nov 2019 16:49, Fourhundred Thecat said:
>> Imagine the authors of "cat" or "ls" decided that these utilities no
>
> Separation of duties is an important part of the Unix philosophy.  Thus
> we use gpg-agent to handle the operations which require private keys and
> also for some minor things which benefit from being implemented in a
> daemon.

Excuse me, but taking a core system utility and making it dependent on a
daemon running at all times is not Unix philosophy.




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