[14018] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Email-Firewalls" / Instant Corporate PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal)
Sun May 22 15:09:51 1994
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 10:50:23 -0700
From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: ecarp@netcom.com (Ed Carp)
> > A more secure way is not to setenv PGPPASS but rather:
> > setenv PGPPASSFD 1
> > The PGPPASSFD means take the passphrase from file descriptor 1, which is
> > the standard input.
>
> I thought stdin was 0, and stdout was 1...
Oops; Ed is right, of course; that should be setenv PGPPASSFD 0.
Hal
