"Email-Firewalls" / Instant Corporate PGP

Hal hfinney at shell.portal.com
Sun May 22 10:49:16 PDT 1994


From: ecarp at netcom.com (Ed Carp)
> > A more secure way is not to setenv PGPPASS but rather:
> > setenv PGPPASSFD 1
> > The PGPPASSFD means take the passphrase from file descriptor 1, which is
> > the standard input.
> 
> I thought stdin was 0, and stdout was 1...

Oops; Ed is right, of course; that should be setenv PGPPASSFD 0.

Hal







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