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Article #2925Re: PGP messages readable by more than one person
From: Derek Atkins
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:05
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:05
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In article <C1Fqq9.1wG@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) writes:
To add my own two problems:
1) The OS/2 port refuses to accept input from stdin, for stuff like "Y/N"
prompts this would be nice for those of us developing shells. (I have my
suspicions why direct keyboard input is required to create the random
seed(s), but for ordinary input this shouldn't be necessary.)
this is true on UNIX, too. That is because the Y/N code opens the tty
to read the values. I agree that there should be some way to override this.
Which particular cases are you trying to shell around?
2) Output to a pipe does not work - PGP tries to rename the "file"
it finds, it cannot, it prompts for a new filename. (Simply allowing
an overwrite option should work wonderfully... preferably as a
default or a command line parameter.)
What do you mean? I've never had much problem with this.
-derek
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Derek Atkins, MIT '93, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Chairman, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
MIT Media Laboratory, Speech Research Group
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!news.mit.edu!warlord From: warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins) Subject: Re: PGP messages readable by more than one person In-Reply-To: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 00:29:55 GMT Message-ID: <WARLORD.93Jan26150523@toxicwaste.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: toxicwaste.media.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology References: <1993Jan23.192239.14870@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <WARLORD.93Jan24213831@snorkelwacker.mit.edu> <1k0d74$92c@smurf.sub.org> <C1Fqq9.1wG@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:05:31 GMT Lines: 28