use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Mon Oct 17 15:09:40 CEST 2011


Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011, 13:51:03 schrieb sweepslate:
> The end goal is to encrypt a volume of around 100GB of personal files
> that I'll be carrying arround with me in a portable drive.

> The key point is doing the encryption of 14000 files in a
> non-interactive way.

echo fubar | gpg --symmetric --passphrase-fd 0 --batch file.txt

Or use --passphrase-file


Hauke
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