How to verify a signed&encrypted file in script
Todd
Freedom_Lover at pobox.com
Fri Oct 17 12:29:06 CEST 2003
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Yang Xiaopeng wrote:
> gpg -o file -d file.gpg
>
> can decrypt and verify the file, but the script doesn't know whether
> the file have a valid signature by checking the return value.
Take a look at the --status-fd option. That will get you the info you
need about the signature status.
If that doesn't help you, maybe you could encrypt the file and then
make a detached sig of that, so you would have file.gpg and
file.gpg.sig.
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Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
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