pgp5 shell commands

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Here's a script to run pgp5 from NEdit. Functionality is limited but it covers the most used things.

This uses two FIFO's to help prevent any data from making it's way on to the disk. Not fool proof. (Virtual memory, etc) The reason I NEEDED to use this fancy script is there is no other way to get stdout to pgp directly from NEdit, because we need to start an xterm first. Major chicken and egg problem. Unfortunately I could not get adding keys to the key ring working using a pipe, so it uses a temporay file for that instead.

The script will still work for OS's that don't have FIFO's, just no disk protection. Make sure to edit the top of the script to set these and other options.

To make your FIFO's

	cd ~/.pgp/
	mknod pgpfifo0 p
	mknod pgpfifi1 p

 	pgp > keys > insert pub::::\n\
		nedit-pgp pubk\n\
	pgp > keys > list:::D:\n\
		nedit-pgp listk\n\
	pgp > keys > add:::ID:\n\
		nedit-pgp addk\n\
	pgp > sign:::EX:\n\
		nedit-pgp sign\n\
	pgp > encrypt:::EX:\n\
		nedit-pgp enc\n\
	pgp > decrypt:::EX:\n\
		nedit-pgp decr\n\
	pgp > verify:::ED:\n\
		nedit-pgp veri\n

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Released on  Wed, 21 Nov 2001  by C. Denat