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- From: caronni@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Germano Caronni)
- Subject: Re: Simple PGP question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.225450.24379@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1992Dec22.210910.29667@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:54:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.210910.29667@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes:
- >If I try to "sign" a message with -s, the original text is encrypted. I want to
- >have a sort of "digital signature" appended after the text. I could use pgp -bs for
- >that, but is that the way to go? And what if I want to use a unix pipe?
-
- excerpt from my local pgpnews-file :-)
- pgp2.1:
- - may specify Key ID instead of User ID by giving 0x<hex> as Userid.
- - may keep the signed file in readable form, just adding an ascii-
- armoured signature: pgp -ast +clearsig=on <file> <userid>
- (Clearsig may also be set in config.txt)
- - with -kvc you may disply a MD5 - hash of your keys, for key verification
- via phone-line ...
-
- so -ast +clearsig=on does the job. I guess the 't' option is not needed.
- using -fast instead of -ast and giving your text as stdin lets it work
- as pipe. Or at least it should :-}
-
- Friendly greetings,
-
- /gec
-
- --
- Instruments register only through things they're designed to register.
- Space still contains infinite unknowns.
-
- Germano Caronni caronni@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch
-