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> Anybody have any good information on using PGP/GPG in Linux with either > pine or Netscape Communicator? Links are quite welcome. You can start with the pgp4pine distribution at: http://pgp4pine.flatline.de In particular, the install documentation: http://pgp4pine.flatline.de/install.html Might give you some ideas on how to implement things yourself. A google (www.google.com) search for "pine pgp" will yield a variety of useful links. > I mucked with trying to use gpg as my alternate editor in pine... it > created a file in /tmp which contained a PGP-signed message, but when it > was done the results weren't sucked back into pine/pico. Generally, pgp is set up as a send filter (and a display filter, for receiving message). Pine has special tokens that can be used to pass, for example, the list of recipients to a sender filter -- so that pgp knows who to encrypt a message to, if you're not just signing it. The links above (and pine's own documentation) have more information on send and display filters. Incidentally, you *can* set up pgp to work via the "alternate editor" command; you just have to make sure that the pgp signed/encrypted output *replaces* the temporary file that pine passes on the command line. The following short shell script works just fine: #!/bin/sh pgp -ast $1 && mv $1.asc $1 (This will also work fine with gpg with the correct command line options; in the above command, '-a' means "use ascii armor mode", '-s' means "sign only", and '-t' means "the file is a text file"). Note, however, that pgp works much better via the send filters, particularly if you're encrypting (rather than just signing) a message. -- Lars -- Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at larsshack.org> --> http://www.larsshack.org/ - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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