> > Mutt can remember the pgp passphrase once it is entered by the user.
> > How does mutt passes the phrase over to pgp when en-/decrypting a message?
> > Is there an algorithm that checks for the pgp passphrase input message
> > and sends it as stdin ?
> and can I snoop it over a network? :-)
I found the answer in the pgp cmd line manual.
There are three ways to transfer the passphrase over to the pgp
program:
1) set PGPPASS = "passphrase"
2) pgp ... -z "passphrase"
3) set PGPPASSFD = 0
the first line of the text file passed over to pgp is taken as the
passphrase
The pgp command from the pgp2.rc uses the third solution.
The passphrase is sent via the command
cat %?p?-?
I'm not a unix expert. Can anyone explain these quotation marks (?),
please?
Can this %?p? be used in the mailcap file?
I need to send the passphrase to mutt_octet-filter.
Daniel.
