> Anybody have any good information on using PGP/GPG in Linux with either
> pine or Netscape Communicator? Links are quite welcome.
You can start with the pgp4pine distribution at:
http://pgp4pine.flatline.de
In particular, the install documentation:
http://pgp4pine.flatline.de/install.html
Might give you some ideas on how to implement things yourself.
A google (www.google.com) search for "pine pgp" will yield a variety of
useful links.
> I mucked with trying to use gpg as my alternate editor in pine... it
> created a file in /tmp which contained a PGP-signed message, but when it
> was done the results weren't sucked back into pine/pico.
Generally, pgp is set up as a send filter (and a display filter, for
receiving message). Pine has special tokens that can be used to pass, for
example, the list of recipients to a sender filter -- so that pgp knows
who to encrypt a message to, if you're not just signing it.
The links above (and pine's own documentation) have more information on
send and display filters.
Incidentally, you *can* set up pgp to work via the "alternate
editor" command; you just have to make sure that the pgp signed/encrypted
output *replaces* the temporary file that pine passes on the command
line. The following short shell script works just fine:
#!/bin/sh
pgp -ast $1 && mv $1.asc $1
(This will also work fine with gpg with the correct command line
options; in the above command, '-a' means "use ascii armor mode",
'-s' means "sign only", and '-t' means "the file is a text file").
Note, however, that pgp works much better via the send filters,
particularly if you're encrypting (rather than just signing) a message.
-- Lars
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