Thank you. I actually decided last week to verify whether the each key is valid before I perform the encryption. I used the --list-keys command along with a loop to accomplish this with ease.
Duwaine Robinson -----Original Message----- From: Peter Pentchev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 5:33 AM To: Duwaine Robinson Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Bypass Invalid Public key On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:35:48PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:01:39PM -0500, Duwaine Robinson wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is there a way to get GnuPG to complete encryption, if there is at > > least one valid public key specified? I am trying automate my > > encryption process, and I am hoping to be able to get away with not > > having to specify error handling if one or more of my public keys > > does not exist on the key ring. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thank you > > I'm not sure that what you're asking would be such a good idea; after > all, it boils down to "let GnuPG report success even if it did not > really do most of what you asked it to, with no real way of knowing > which parts it did do and which parts it didn't" :) Oookay, okay, I know, I know, I know - you *can* try running GnuPG on the *encrypted* file later and find out which keys it is actually encrypted to, but in my book, that goes under "nonsensical effort". [almost snip my "--list-keys --with-colons output processing" suggestion] > gpg --list-keys --with-colons 16194553 87E057BE 5DBFAB91 > awk -F: '$1 == "pub" && $12 ~ /E/ { print $5 }' That part still stands :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This would easier understand fewer had omitted. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
