Re: Is it possible to use keys that aren't on the keyring?

2013-02-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:43, jtrei...@gmail.com said: > user's keychain, however, I was wondering if it is possible to perform > crypto operations using keys that are not on the keyring. For example, No. GPG needs to know the keys, for example to compute the web of trust. Eventually we will add

Re: Is it possible to use keys that aren't on the keyring?

2013-02-22 Thread Peter Lebbing
I don't know if it is supported by GPGME, but here's an alternative I just thought of: Store the public keyring on a RAM filesystem. Sketch of operation (not fully tested, and please understand what you're doing, don't just copy-paste): mkdir ~/gnupg-ramfs sudo mount gnupg-ramfs ~/gnupg-ramfs -t

Is it possible to use keys that aren't on the keyring?

2013-02-22 Thread Jim Treinen
Hello, I have a question about retrieving keys for use with GPGME. I understand that GPG is primarily built to function using keys on the user's keychain, however, I was wondering if it is possible to perform crypto operations using keys that are not on the keyring. For example, rather than encr