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Re: please explain these gpg switches...



Chris --

...and then seberino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said...
% 
% 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

Yep.


% to as "armor"??  Armor seems to imply that somehow ASCII signatures
% are safer or more protected with a checksum or something.

It's historical.  You're protecting the [binary] signature by encoding
it in 7bit ASCII so that it does not get corrupted by 7-bit-only mail
servers along the way.


% 
% How does --batch avoid interactive questions??  Does it just assume
% the answer? Must we pray it guesses correctly?

Read the man page for gpg to find out :-)


% 
% Chris


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