From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2655 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ben Elliston Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: S/MIME and encrypted certificates Date: 22 Jun 2003 11:33:47 +1000 Organization: Canberra Wireless Network Message-ID: References: <87d6h7bf7c.fsf@gvdnet.dk> <873ci39h2w.fsf@gvdnet.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669008 15907 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:01 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!news.moat.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!lon-spool.news.telstra.net!203.50.2.94.MISMATCH!reader.news.telstra.net!not-for-mail Original-Sender: bje@mailhub.air.net.au Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.52.201.202 Original-X-Trace: 1056245625 lon-reader.news.telstra.net 59950 203.52.201.202 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2795 Original-Lines: 14 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2795 Tue Jan 17 17:31:01 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2655 Archived-At: Martin Christensen writes: > Simon> (Environment variables may not be the best idea though, > Simon> improvements are welcome. > Passing the passphrase as a command-line argument seems the most > straight-forward way of doing so. Here, have a diff. :-) I've done > some rudimentary testing, and it seems to work fine. Using a command line argument is even worse, as other users can spot your openssl processes in the process table and will then know your passphrase. Ben