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Re: Simple PGP question

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From: Russell Earl Whitaker
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:49
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In article <1992Dec22.210910.29667@rna.indiv.nluug.nl> gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl writes:

>If I try to "sign" a message with -s, the original text is encrypted. I want to
>have a sort of "digital signature" appended after the text. I could use pgp -bs
> for  
>that, but is that the way to go? And what if I want to use a unix pipe?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- 
>Gerben Wierda                 Tel. (+31) 35 833539
>  "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
>  From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
>

Gerben,

Try

pgp -sta +clearsig=on <plaintext>

Hope this helps.  That's what signed the post you're looking at
now!  ;-)

- -- 

Russell Earl Whitaker                   whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk
Communications Editor                       71750.2413@compuserve.com
EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought         AMiX: RWHITAKER
Board member, Extropy Institute (ExI)
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6UWeQNFOjJE0KgLwkEcmjgwNQAgLZ40O0BoUbyUR3TfCsK2PYxEopDYLxMhSwX09
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n4g0yqQrvmA=
=JIrZ
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