Re: Automate GPG or PGP to make an .exe

And that's your objection to what the OP wants? Because the recipient
might run a program 'X' which is not the program 'Y' that the
originator actually sent to him?

You have to be joking.

Every PC user in the world, runs executables, every day, on the basis
of a considered decision as to whether they are safe, or not. You
yourself have run programs on your work PC, that you have not
personally verified to be correct. And you've run programs on your home
PC, where you have not personally verified that the system components
are all correct. Don't try to tell me that you have personally verified
the checksum of every executable on your work & home PCs. Of course you
haven't. You've made a judgement call on what is safe, and what is not.
Running MSWord on the work PC, is probably safe. Rnning a program from
a warez site, is probably not.

But you propose that the recipients of the OP's EXE file, can not
exercise a similar judgement. They're not capable of making an informed
decision, whether or not to run that EXE - a decision that you,
youself, would undoubtledly make on a daily basis?

Sorry, that's just sci.crypt snobbery. There's absolutely nothing wrong
with what the OP wanted. The recipient just needs to exercise the
normal level of care that everyone - /including you/ - applies whenever
they run any executable, on any PC.

TC (MVP MSAccess)
http://tc2.atspace.com
Received on Mon May 1 01:53:11 2006