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Re: "Email-Firewalls" / Instant Corporate PGP
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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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steel! -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"
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