On 02/01/15 17:04, Ben Staude wrote: > Another thought would be to just paste the private key (encrypted by my > password) to the gpg'd files? Of course my private key would then be sort of > "public", but still it is as secure as using symmetric encryption with that > password in the first place (but allowing me to use the real public key in my > script)?
Yes, that is perfectly possible. It is just as secure as using gpg's --symmetric mode with the same password for each file you encrypt. > Does gpg by any chance happen to offer some feature like that..? What feature are you asking for? It seems to me it doesn't need a feature, doesn't need explicit support. You write a copy of the key to the same directory as where you store the encrypted files. You write a script that fetches the private key from there into GnuPG's secret keyring. GnuPG never needs to know ;). HTH, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter> _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
