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Re: separation of signed and encrypted messages

Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> Wed, 17 October 2001 08:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: separation of signed and encrypted messages
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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:05:47 +0200
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"Michael Young" <mwy-opgp97@the-youngs.org> writes:

> >but is there any way to do it, short of rewriting gpg, pgp to include a -d
> > > command similar to the -d command of 2.6.3?
> 
> It doesn't appear that GnuPG has such a switch now.  But it would
> be easy to build.

The diff is a couple of lines.  I can provide details if someone wants
to work on it.  We've got a working patch for 1.0.3 or so, but chances
are minuscule that it will appear in the official GnuPG distribution.
(That's not Werner's fault, the FSF is not interested in contributions
from the University of Stuttgart in general.)

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