Re: please explain these gpg switches...
David
Thanks. I think I got most of it now. If you want
an ASCII signature you use the --armor switch. Why is ASCII referred
to as "armor"?? Armor seems to imply that somehow ASCII signatures
are safer or more protected with a checksum or something.
How does --batch avoid interactive questions?? Does it just assume
the answer? Must we pray it guesses correctly?
Chris
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:10:10AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:55:20PM -0800, seberino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I'm confused about some switches in .muttrc line above:
> >
> > --no-verbose : Why do we need this to "reset the verbosity level"??
> > ... why isn't `--quiet' good enough??
>
> --quiet isn't always as quiet as we like. GPG requires both if you want
> all crap /dev/null(4)ed reliably.
>
> > --armor : What does this too? Add a checksum only?
> > man pages still left me confused
>
> "Armouring" means representing the signature in easy-to-use ASCII codes
> (letters, numbers, etc.) instead of in raw binary codes (which need to
> be Base64ed by the MUA anyway, unless the MTAs support 8-bit mode).
>
> > --detach-sign : this "detaches" the signature. what does that mean?
>
> It doesn't return the text with the PGP crap around it; rather, it returns
> a separate "document" which is actually a signature of the document fed
> to GPG.
>
> > --textmode %?a?-u %a? %f I'm most confused about all this cruft and
> > what all these question marks and %f means.
>
> The %gunk is Mutt escape sequences for some junk (which I'm too lazy
> to lookup). I don't remember what --textmode is off-hand, either (maybe
> tunes --armor? don't remember).
>
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Well, there's some ;-)
>
> Enjoy,
> - Dave
>
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>
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