[Macgpg-devl] How to talk to GPG

[Gordon W. <re...@rb...>]

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Okay, today I was cleaning my desk and found a print out of an old 
e-mail from the mac security list with shell scripts for encrypting 
and decrypting the pastboard in OS X.  Well, I started to play and 
discovered this:

pbpaste | native2ascii | gpg --se > /tmp/enc-file.gpg;  cat 
/tmp/enc-file.gpg | pbcopy

and this:

pbpaste | native2ascii > /tmp/enc-file.gpg; gpg -d < /tmp/enc-file.gpg | pbcopy

which means that clear text never has to be written to disk (well, 
except when clear signing, but in that case it doesn't matter)!  This 
is great.  So long as we keep the memory secure, there won't be any 
trouble at all with doing things this sort of hackish way.  :-)  Only 
encrypted text will ever be written to disk, which is just fine, 
since it's not usable anyway.  :-)  Hopefully others have figured 
this out, but when I saw it I was very happy.  This means that 
providing services will be no trouble at all and we can focus on 
writing a good front end.  :-)

Now, if I've missed something important, please bust my bubble.  I 
have this working, but maybe it won't work in the context of a 
service.  :-(
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Gordon Worley
http://www.rbisland.cx/
mailto:re...@rb...
PGP Fingerprint:  C462 FA84 B811 3501 9010  20D2 6EF3 77F7 BBD3 B003

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