Re: gpg over ssh... (security problem)

2005-04-09 Thread Erpo
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 10:09 +0100, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote: > Say, I have a encrypted file somewhere on a server on the net. > Naturally I don't have my private key on that "unsave" server. I want > to use the output of the encrypted file in a pipe to do something with > it. > > I don't like the

Re: gpg over ssh...

2005-03-21 Thread Atom Smasher
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Gerhard Siegesmund wrote: Almost. :-) But this is the other way round. I want to call gpg from the other server to decrypt something. I have the feeling, that it is not possible to send something for decryption to another server. This would have been a great feature. Imagine

Re: gpg over ssh...

2005-03-21 Thread Gerhard Siegesmund
Hello Atom Smasher > this seems to work for me: > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat file1' | gpg | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat - > > file2' > note the quotes. > it reads an encrypted file (file1) from the server, decrypts it locally > and writes the decrypted data back to a file (file2) on the serve

Re: gpg over ssh...

2005-03-20 Thread Atom Smasher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 this seems to work for me: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat file1' | gpg | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat - > file2' note the quotes. it reads an encrypted file (file1) from the server, decrypts it locally and writes the decrypted data back to a file

Re: gpg over ssh...

2005-03-20 Thread Gerhard Siegesmund
Hello John > Have you considered copying the encrypted file with scp, the opening a > ssh sheel to decrypt & run? Yes. As noted in my email this surely is one possibility. But this means I have to copy the encrypted file to my home-server, decrypt it there and then copy it back unencrypted to the

Re: gpg over ssh...

2005-03-20 Thread John Clizbe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerhard Siegesmund wrote: > Hello List > > I don't know, whether this is a dump thing to do, but I had the > following idea, which I unfortunately didn't get to work. > > I am working on linux (debian) with gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.0. > > Say, I have a encry

gpg over ssh...

2005-03-20 Thread Gerhard Siegesmund
Hello List I don't know, whether this is a dump thing to do, but I had the following idea, which I unfortunately didn't get to work. I am working on linux (debian) with gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.0. Say, I have a encrypted file somewhere on a server on the net. Naturally I don't have my private key on that