Win32 passphrase proposal

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:07:48PM -0500, Daryl Krauter wrote:
> 
> 
> > > How true, but it really is no different than storing it
> > > in some file and passing it via the commandline arg '--passphrase-fd'.
> >
> > AFAIK nobody is seriously advocating using it for that.  This is just
> > so that other programs can read the passphrase from the user and pass
> > it directly to gpg in a hopefully secure fashion.
> >
> 
> 
> I should have stated this up front, but the only
> reason that I (or any one else AFAIK) would use '--passphrase-fd'
> is for automation.  As such, all of this is under the context of '--batch'.

More than just automation.  Any program that calls gpg to do something
for it may use --passphrase-fd.  For example, the mutt mail user agent
has very nice gpg/pgp integration and hands the passphrase the user
types over to gpg using --passphrase-fd.

David

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