gpg --verify detached signature from two file descriptors?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 11/13/2010 02:16 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:19, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
> 
>> i'd like to use gpg to verify a detached signature, but for various
>> reasons i don't want to put either part (the body or the signature) in
>> the filesystem (i have the data queued in two otherwise anonymous file
>> descriptors).
> 
> No problem.  GPGME does it this way.  The trick is the option
> --enable-special-filenames and to pass the fd in this format "-&N".
> 
>   gpg --enable-special-filenames --verify --batch -&5 -&6
> 
> Assuming you have them in fds 5 and 6.

thanks, this is exactly what i needed!

> Using GPGME is of course easier because it has this secret knowledge ;-)

:)

	--dkg

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