Scott,

Uuencode is a text armoring mechanism... It's how pictures, docs, and programs are sent through email. I just uuencoded the gpg data string. The better way is to use armor directly - it saves a step. Uuencode can convert ANY binary to text than can be stored in a text field. Note the it is an encoding and not an encryption algorithm.

Check out:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/Uuencode.html
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213268,00.html
http://www.ucc.ie/doc/other/uu.html


-Peter

Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote:

Peter:

How does uuencoding work, compared with GnuPG encoding?

References?

Scott

I had the same problem myself... I uuencoded it.

-Peter

Eric Jensen wrote:

Working on some encryption schemes and running into a few humps. We
have a great GnuPG scheme for encrypting all of our backup files. Really digging the public and private key scheme. But now we are


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