How know who is a file encrypted for ?

Wilhelm Müller muewi at acm.org
Thu Feb 28 10:04:29 CET 2008


>>>>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:23:34 -0500, David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> said:

    David> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:55:28PM +0100, Dirk Traulsen wrote:
    [...]
    >> > >C:\>gpg --recipient-keys ENCRYPTED_FILE.gpg
    [...]
    >> So at least three people think it would be a good addition.

    David> Why?

    David> I'm serious - what is the use case here?  How often do people need to
    David> list all recipients of a file?

I agree with David, especially since the desired feature is already
present, though somewhat hidden:

    gpg --list-only --verbose encrypted_file.gpg

(Btw: It's in the manual...)

Wilhelm

-- 

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand
binary, and those who don't.

-- 

 **************************************** fixed pitch fonts! **
  Wilhelm Müller          muewi at acm.org             (o_
                                          (o_  (o_  //\
  1024D/2048g  5E6E CF83 B15E C7ED 1A31   (/)_ (/)_ V_/_
   F9435BF6    E9F3 F509 FD7B F943 5BF6             © N.Smith



More information about the Gnupg-users mailing list