On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:09:41PM -0500, Rusty Shackleford wrote: > My office uses PGP to create self-extracting executable files. > > I found the -c option for GPG which encrypts with a symmetric key, but > this doesn't seem to do the next step of making the encrypted data an > executable program that prompts for a password. > > Is this feature possible with GPG? I'm trying to automate lots of > processes and the less highlighting and right-clicking I have to do in > Windows Explorer, the better.
GnuPG is portable to many different operating systems, and so does not have a SDA feature since it would involve making an executable for every supported platform. You can more or less do this yourself by writing a script if you like. > PS: I've already bored everyone I work with by explaining how symmetric > key encryption ain't all that secure, but switching to a key-based > system is not possible in the short run. SDAs aren't all that secure either. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
