On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:53 PM, Zy Zylek wrote: > I'm looking for a way to include a group of people in gpg file > encryption/decryption (not email-based, just gpg encrypted files) without > having to incorporate individual names, yet also such that more people can be > added to the group in the future and that they will be able to access > previously encrypted files because they joined the group after the old files > were encrypted. > > Does the "--group" option in gpg serve this purpose?
No. The group option creates a group of keys, not a key that covers a given group. In other words, you can get your first requirement (encrypt to a group of people in one shot), but not your second (if more people are added to the group, they will not be able to access previously encrypted data). > Or is there another way to go about it? An easy way would be to make a group key and give each person access to it. The problem is that if you need to support people leaving the group, the old members can still decrypt... David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
