On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:02:11PM -0500, Matthew Wilson wrote: > My office uses PGP to create self-extracting executable files. [] > Is this feature possible with GPG? I'm trying to automate lots of > processes and the less highlighting and right-clicking I have to do in > Windows Explorer, the better. [] > PS: I've already bored everyone I work with by explaining how symmetric > key encryption ain't all that secure, but switching to a key-based > system is not possible in the short run.
I can relate to your pain, but GPG hasn't any such functionality. It is difficult to implement since GPG is a multi-platform appplication. Also, running untrusted binaries rececived from unverifiable sources is a very bad idea anyway (and source of today's most security problems). If you have access to/control/advisory power over involved computers' configuration, associating .pgp .gpg and .asc filename suffixes with GPG itself or a suitable shell application gives roughly the same results as self-extracting archives - user click a file, enters a password, file is decrypted. Alex -- mors ab alto 0x46399138 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
