[53115] in Cypherpunks
gnutar + pgp filter mode
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hadmut Danisch)
Mon Apr 1 11:00:49 1996
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:22:43 +0200
From: danisch@ira.uka.de (Hadmut Danisch)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, pgp-bugs@MIT.EDU
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The gnu tar archiver allows to use an arbitrary
compression program (option --use-compress-program=PROG).
This works well with pgp if a small wrapper is used:
#!/bin/csh -fb
if ("$1" == "-d") then
exec pgp -d -f
else
exec pgp -e -f
endif
The only problem is that this doesn't work well for
larger amounts of data, because pgp reads in all
data before starting with its work.
Perhaps a future release of pgp will have a real filter
mode.
Hadmut
BTW: Does this "crypto-hook" cause export restrictions to
apply on gtar ?
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