ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > > > On 8/25/2020 at 3:21 PM, "Stefan Claas" <s...@300baud.de> wrote: > > > >Maybe he could try to use a secret key without a passphrase and > >give then the secret key personally to his friend? > > ===== > > And just have the ascii armored text of the secret key as the passphrase for > the symmetrically encrypted text? > > There still needs to be a way to 'enter' it as the 'passphrase'. If the OP > doesn't mind saving it in a file-decsriptor way, > that would work, but it would work the same as the secret key had a > passphrase, or even if it was an unpublished public key.
Well, as we know GnuPG uses hybrid encryption when using public key encryption, so why use then direct symmetric encryption with a passphrase, if the shown workflow would work also with GnuPG? What I have shown would allow a group of people to use the same secret-key, among them, without having a public key to share (found on a keyservers ...) and without using a passphrase (preferably on an offline device). Regards Stefan _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
