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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Tomaschik <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:27 PM Subject: Re: Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)? To: Chris Poole <[email protected]> I would just produce a list of SHA1s of the files and then sign that. sha1sum * | gpg -s --armor -o sigs.asc David On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Chris Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have thousands of files in a maildir directory. > > I've encrypted them all, individually, with the recipient as myself. > Just in case someone steals the machine or something. > > It occurs to me it would be a good idea to sign these emails. Making > the assumption that I can trust they haven't already been tampered > with, is it OK to simply run > > gpg -o somefile.gpg -s somefile.gpg > > or is it better to decrypt them all, and then sign and encrypt in one go? > > > Thanks, > > Chris Poole > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com [email protected] -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
