From: ecarp@netcom.com (Ed Carp)
Date: Sun, 22 May 94 12:05:03 PDT
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
Subject: Re: "Email-Firewalls" / Instant Corporate PGP
In-Reply-To: <199405220527.WAA12131@jobe.shell.portal.com>
Message-ID: <199405221435.HAA22130@netcom.com>
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> A more secure way is not to setenv PGPPASS but rather:
> setenv PGPPASSFD 1
> and then
> (echo "vinces passphrase" ; cat mailtmp.asc) | pgp -f >> mailtmp
> 
> The PGPPASSFD means take the passphrase from file descriptor 1, which is
> the standard input.  This way it never appears in the environment of a
> process.  Many unix systems have a switch to ps to show all processes'
> environments.

I thought stdin was 0, and stdout was 1...
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