On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:15, m...@kerrickstaley.com said: > Is it possible to generate the digest for a file, and then create the > signature from that digest later?
No, this is not possible. We once considered to implement such a feature but dropped that plan. The technical problem is that with OpenPGP you don't just sign a plain hash of the message but the hash of a modified message (in text mode) and further the hash includes a few magic bytes. Thus to implement such a feature we we would need to do a incomplete hash on the server and complete it on the client. It is doable but would look ugly. My suggestion is to sign a the hash of the file; i.e. create a file with the SHA-x digests on the remote box, download it and sign it on the local box. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
