On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:02:32 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote: >On 09/08/2011 02:54 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Is there an option in gnupg like the '-m' option in pgp which >> allows the display of decrypted plaintext on the screen instead >of >> saving to file,
> gpg --encrypt --armor -r $recipient > > (then type your message, and end with a ctrl-D after the last >newline) ----- can't get it to work, this is what happens (using cygwin on winxp): First, with your suggestion: $ gpg --encrypt --armor -r testkey just a test gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information usage: gpg [options] --encrypt [filename] then trying, $ gpg --encrypt --armor -r testkey 'just a test' gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information gpg: can't open `just a test': No such file or directory gpg: just a test: encryption failed: file open error then trying, $ gpg --encrypt --armor -o c:/ptt.asc -r testkey 'just a test' gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information gpg: can't open `just a test': No such file or directory gpg: just a test: encryption failed: file open error then, just as a control, which did work, $ gpg -r testkey -o c:/f2.asc -a -e c:/f1.txt gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information as expected, gnupg produced f2.asc as the desired ciphertext, but only by encrypting the plaintext in the input file f1.txt If you, (or anyone else here), were able to get this to work, could you please list all the steps and the gpg output? Thanks! vedaal _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
