gpg help

what's the best way to import keys from pgp (public & secret), do I
need to export first from PGP then import in gpg ?

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dorantes@mac.com writes:

>what's the best way to import keys from pgp (public & secret), do I
>need to export first from PGP then import in gpg ?

Gnupg can directly import the PGP keyrings.

cd $HOME/.pgp ## or wherever pgp keyrings are

gpg --import pubring.pkr
gpg --import secring.skr

After importing, you might need to edit your own key to make it
ultimately trusted.

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thanks !! that worked, now to decrypt a file, what's the exact command
to re-direct the output to a file ? the command I used was: " gpg
--decrypt SOMEFILENAME.pgp " and everything scrolled across the screen
really fast.

thanks...

thanks...is there a way to decrypt a file thru a script (passing in the
passphrase) ?

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:45:33 -0700, dorantes wrote:

> thanks !! that worked, now to decrypt a file, what's the exact command
> to re-direct the output to a file ? the command I used was: " gpg
> --decrypt SOMEFILENAME.pgp " and everything scrolled across the screen
> really fast.
>
> thanks...

To redirect any command's output to a file, follow the command with

(command) > outputfile.sav

or whatever name you want.

thanks...is there a way to decrypt a file thru a script (passing in the
passphrase), so there is no user invertvention required?

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dorantes@mac.com writes:

>thanks...is there a way to decrypt a file thru a script (passing in the
>passphrase), so there is no user invertvention required?

man gpg

(pay particular attention to "--passphrase-fd")

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what does file descriptor n mean ? it says to use 0 for n and the
passphrase will be read from stdin...but what does that mean ?

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dorantes@mac.com writes:

>what does file descriptor n mean ? it says to use 0 for n and the
>passphrase will be read from stdin...but what does that mean ?

When you open a file in unix, you are given a file descriptor.

This gpg option is really intended for use by a program
that

opens a pipe
forks a child process to run gpg
parent writes the pass phrase into the pipe.

In this case the program would know the file descriptor number
from opening the pipe.

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got it ....it worked...thanks a bunch....