1994-05-22 - Re: “Email-Firewalls” / Instant Corporate PGP

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From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <199405221750.KAA17007@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-05-22 17:49:16 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 22 May 94 10:49:16 PDT

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From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Date: Sun, 22 May 94 10:49:16 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "Email-Firewalls" / Instant Corporate PGP
Message-ID: <199405221750.KAA17007@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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From: ecarp@netcom.com (Ed Carp)
> > A more secure way is not to setenv PGPPASS but rather:
> > setenv PGPPASSFD 1
> > The PGPPASSFD means take the passphrase from file descriptor 1, which is
> > the standard input.
> 
> I thought stdin was 0, and stdout was 1...

Oops; Ed is right, of course; that should be setenv PGPPASSFD 0.

Hal






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