[ale] verifying file integrity with pgp sig

[Jonathan Glass (IBB)]

$ man gpg

  --verify [[sigfile]  [signed-files]]
                 Assume that sigfile is a signature and verify it
without genâ
                 erating any output. With no arguments, the  signature
packet
                 is  read from stdin.  If only a sigfile is given, it
may be a
                 complete signature or a detached signature, in which
case the
                 signed  stuff  is  expected  in  a file without the
".sig" or
                 ".asc" extension.  With  more  than  1  argument,  the
first
                 should  be  a  detached signature and the remaining
files are
                 the signed stuff.  To read the signed stuff from stdin,
use â
                 as the second filename.  For security reasons a
detached sigâ
                 nature cannot read the signed  material  from  stdin
without
                 denoting it in the above way.

Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
404.385.0127 

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org] On Behalf Of John
To: ale at ale.org
Wells
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 7:38 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] verifying file integrity with pgp sig


Jakarta provides pgp sigs to use when verifying file integrity.  How
would I go about using one on the file?  I'm used to using md5sum.

Thanks,
John



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