Re: Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)?

2011-11-11 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/11/2011 14:54, Chris Poole wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:27 PM, David Tomaschik > wrote: >> I would just produce a list of SHA1s of the files and then sign that. > > OK thanks, I hadn't thought of that. I'd still have to decrypt and re-encrypt > them to keep hashes of all plaintext ve

Fwd: Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)?

2011-11-11 Thread David Tomaschik
Accidentally responded off-list... -- Forwarded message -- From: David Tomaschik Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:27 PM Subject: Re: Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)? To: Chris Poole I would just produce a list of SHA1s of the files and then sign that. sha1sum * | gp

Re: Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)?

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Poole
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:27 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: > I would just produce a list of SHA1s of the files and then sign that. OK thanks, I hadn't thought of that. I'd still have to decrypt and re-encrypt them to keep hashes of all plaintext versions of the files though. (Thinking about running

Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)?

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Poole
Hi, I have thousands of files in a maildir directory. I've encrypted them all, individually, with the recipient as myself. Just in case someone steals the machine or something. It occurs to me it would be a good idea to sign these emails. Making the assumption that I can trust they haven't alrea