On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, David Shaw wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Sargon wrote:
>> I have a public key of a recipient in ASCII or binary form and would
>> like to feed gpg w/o importing it first in its public keyring and
>> afterwards specify the ID of the public key. According to my researches
>> on the net and on the gnupg.org site, there's no way to do this though.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm this?
>
> You can't do it without importing the key, but you can sort of fake what
> you want. Do something like:
>
> gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./tempkeyring.gpg --import (thekey)
> gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./tempkeyring.gpg --encrypt ......
> rm tempkeyring.gpg
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there's a better way to fake it... let's say you want to encrypt a message
to me, and have my key in a binary file "D9F57808.key":
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /path/to/D9F57808.key -er D9F57808
you may want to add "--trust-model always" to the command.
this only works with binary, not ascii, key files. keys in ascii would
have to be converted into binary, or use the import method described by
david.
--
...atom
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PGP key - http://atom.smasher.org/pgp.txt
762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808
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"Because, it isn't just a stupid little mistake, Ok? You have
to understand Coke's business. How does Coke make money?"
"They sell syrup to bottlers."
"Right. And...."
"And?"
"And they license the rights to print their corporate art on
the cans and bottles to those bottlers. So what are those
bottlers going to say after finding out they've been paying
twelve years worth of licensing fees for a fraudulent
copyright?"
-- Bob Kolody,
explaining the implications of his suit
against Coca-Cola
http://www.guerrillanews.com/cocakarma/
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