PGP-out-only vs. hashcash aware remailers?

Tue Jan 6 09:43:05 PST 1998

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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, William H. Geiger III wrote:

> In <Pine.LNX.3.94.980105104829.6085O-100000 at neptune.chem.uga.edu>, on
> 01/05/98 
>    at 11:14 AM, Andy Dustman <andy at neptune.chem.uga.edu> said:
> 
> >A couple problems: PGP (2.6.x) doesn't seem to have an option to only
> >de-armor
> 
> PGP -da [filename]

Well that would help a lot, then. Find the begin and end headers for the
PGP message, pipe it into pgp -da, throw away the output, check the exit
code, which should be set if the armor was invalid (or perhaps look at
stderr). Like I said, though, you could still make the armor valid by
correctly calculating the CRC, or even make PGP generate the armor with
the insult/flames/whatever in the output (just a matter of shifting some
bits around before armoring, could be done in perl). But this is certainly
not worth worrying about. 

Andy Dustman / Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Design
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