OK, so I need to put the data into the out stream. Can you give some sample
code from C doing this? I'm not 100% clear on the order, etc of calling gpg and
sending the data to "out." Thanks!
--- On Thu, 12/18/08, David Shaw <ds...@jabberwocky.com> wrote:
> From: David Shaw <ds...@jabberwocky.com>
> Subject: Re: How encrypt data/text stream instead of a file?
> To: donrhu...@yahoo.com
> Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 10:52 AM
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:14 AM, don rhummy wrote:
>
> > All the examples of using GnuPG are of giving it a
> local filename to encrypt or decrypt. How do I pass it data,
> either as a stream or byte by byte?
>
> GnuPG is designed to be able to accept a stream or a file.
> To do a stream instead of a file, just don't give a
> filename. GnuPG will then read data from standard input.
>
> So, for example:
>
> my-pipeline-that-streams-data | gpg --encrypt |
> my-pipeline-that-accepts-encrypted-data
>
> You can freely mix streams and files as well:
>
> my-pipeline-that-streams-data | gpg -o output-file.gpg
> --encrypt
>
> Or
>
> gpg -o - --encrypt myfile |
> my-pipeline-that-accepts-encrypted-data
>
> Anyway, that's how you do it on the command line. If
> you want to do it inside a program, it depends on what
> language you're using and how that language deals with
> calling out to a command line. In general, though, you want
> to write data to the head of the GPG pipe, and read data
> from the tail of the GPG pipe. I do this frequently in C
> via the usual pipe/fork/exec/dup2 method.
>
> David
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