gpg is an open source alternative to pgp that's popular in the Linux world. He was probably executing the gpg executable (not an exe), sending it the params to encrypt a file.
On 12/13/06, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool. Pardon my ignorance, but what is gpg? > > Also what were you cfexecuting? I hope it wasn't an .exe since I have > to get this to work on Linux. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Stille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:38 PM > > Brad Wood wrote: > > Ok, I already Googled this AND looked through the CF Exchange on > Adobe's > > site and I still can't seem to get any clear direction. > > > > I need to use PGP encryption to encrypt a text file on a Linux box. > > What are my options? > > I did this using CFEXECUTE. Ended up using gpg instead of pgp, can't > really remember why. I think because it was because we would have had > to purchase pgp to use it commercially? Or maybe it was just easier to > use with ColdFusion. > > There was no way to 'pipe' using CF, so I think we ended up writing out > the clear text file and then encrypting it. That was on CF5, I imagine > with CF7 you could pipe directly to the pgp executable using java > somehow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:263985 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
