[14020] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Email-Firewalls" / Instant Corporate PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp)
Sun May 22 15:12:56 1994
From: ecarp@netcom.com (Ed Carp)
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 07:35:40 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405220527.WAA12131@jobe.shell.portal.com> from "Hal" at May 21, 94 10:27:20 pm
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> A more secure way is not to setenv PGPPASS but rather:
> setenv PGPPASSFD 1
> and then
> (echo "vinces passphrase" ; cat mailtmp.asc) | pgp -f >> mailtmp
>
> The PGPPASSFD means take the passphrase from file descriptor 1, which is
> the standard input. This way it never appears in the environment of a
> process. Many unix systems have a switch to ps to show all processes'
> environments.
I thought stdin was 0, and stdout was 1...
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Ed Carp, N7EKG/VE3 ecarp@netcom.com 519/824-3307
Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.3a public key an88744@anon.penet.fi
If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than
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