On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:52:59AM -0000, Frog wrote: > > Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: > > > When I use tar -o ...... $FILE | gpg -c ...... > > > > > > (please sobebody help to write a working example) > > > > See "tar --help". I don't know what your -o is supposed to do. > > Generally GNU tar writes to stdout by default, so you just do > [snip] > tar -O is eqv tar --to--stdout Indeed. In my tar it's also the same as "tar -f-" or just "tar". But "tar -O" != "tar -o". This is Unix: case matters. > Have gpg designed to encrypt ~Gigabytes of files from stdin without unsecure ~tmp > files creation Try it and find out! However I would not want any gpg'ed files bigger than a CD-R, for sake of easy manageability. Even that would be a bit too much. I'd suggest breaking your data down into smaller archives. Rob - /dev/rob0 - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/