Hello punksters... I am almost done with some remailer software and I need something: an app that takes input from a specified file and sends output to anothe specified file (all on command line) and asks for the key from stdin or from an environment variable. This I need since PGP will not take environment vars or stdin for getting the key for a conventionally encrypted file. I would also like a program that will do nothing but encrypt a file specified on the command line and dump ascii-armoured output to another file, and ask for the password from an environment variable or from stdin. I am asking this since I hope someone else will have already done this or learned pgptools well enough to do it quickly. I thought about modifying PGP, but I also thought that many people would not want to use my remailer if I had to hack PGP to make it work ;-) My remailer implements the following features: :: Latency: ## MINUTES (where ## is an integer or the word "RANDOM") :: Request-Remailing-To: username@machine (of course) :: PleaseDontPad (keeps the mailer from padding the message) :: Encrypted: PGP (message is encrypted with the remailer's pubkey) :: SubjectEnclosed (if message is encrypted, the subject can be hidden inside the encryption envelope, on lines 1-5) :: SuperEncrypted (if the messge is encrypted, it looks for a line in the decrypted message that looks like: (on lines 1-5) SuperEncryptionKey: cjkdsancuiabcdsbakjcdsabkjcdsa and uses that key to decrypt the message again. ) In a configuration file, the owner can specify a few options, also: here's an example: # debuglevel sets the degugging level, 0 = off, 1 = on and 2 = picky. debuglevel 2 # loglevel sets the resolution of logs: # 0 = off. No logs at all. # 1 = Log Synopsis of message (from, to, subject, size, etc... not content) # 2 = Log Full message to the mailbox specified in logmbox # 3 = Log Full text and synopsis loglevel 3 logmbox ./log/mbox logsynopsis ./log/synopsis # This is the directory that all tempfiles, etc are set relative to homedir /staff/nate/dev/perl/remail # set the maximum number of latency minutes for random latency requests maxlatmin 20 # the process number will be appended to this name tempfile ./remailer-temp # defaultsubject specifies the subject to use if none is given, omit to # forward no subject at all. defaultsubject There is no subject. # The mailbox that diagnostic mail and non-remialer mail is sent to. mbox ./mbox # Passphrase for PGP decryption. passphrase nckldanjcsancjkndsakjcdsajk # sourceblock blocks mail coming FROM this address sourceblock detweiler@detweiler.org # destblock blocks mail addressed TO the address. destblock nate@vis.colostate.edu # netblock will block all mail going to that subnet. netblock whitehouse.gov In addition to this, the owner can change the number of padding sizes and their individual sizes... the remailer strips out the padding when it gets a message and adds it to the end when it's about to leave. -nate -- +--------- | Nate Sammons <nates@netcom.com> PGP Key and fingerprint via finger. | Clipper == Big Brother Inside. Question Authority. Encrypt everything. +---------