[ale] verifying file integrity with pgp sig

[John Wells]

Thanks.  perusing gnupg.org/faq as I type this.

John

IBB said:
> $ 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
> 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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