On Sun, 22 May 2005 07:31:40 +0200, Per Tunedal Casual said: > Add date and time to filename of encrypted file; this is an option for > encrypt-file and encrypt & sign file.
OpenPGP defines a field for storing this information; it is however not well definef and due to the fact that gpg is often used in a pipeline, there is no such information available - we store the current time instead. Anyway, in good old Unix tradition gpg should not do this. There are more attributes to a file than the time (what time: creation, modification, access?) for example the owner, the permissions ACLS and such. Trying to implement this would soon lead to a full archive program. It is better to use tar(1) or one the other archivers for this instead. They have been written for this purpose. Use for example something like: tar cf - filenames | gpg -e ... Salam-Shalom, Werner _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
