linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH v2][QUILT] Add gpg signing to quilt mail

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Message-ID: <4E8B4BEC.5030708@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:09:48 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	quilt-dev <quilt-dev@...gnu.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2][QUILT] Add gpg signing to quilt mail

On 10/04/2011 11:02 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:46:34PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> +my $pgp = `gpg --simple-sk-checksum -a --detach-sign $pass --output - < $tmpfile`;
> 
> Try not to use gpg when calling from scripts, use gpgv instead, it
> handles things much better, and sets the return value correctly so you
> can check it (which I don't think you do here.)
> 

gpgv is only usable to verify contents (equivalent to gpg --verify).
For other things you need to use gpg's --status-fd feature, *or*
(perhaps better) run gpgv on the output to verify that you actually got
a good signature.

	-hpa
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