[ic] Generating Keys & Applying Signatures

[Zack Johnson]

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Zack
----- Original Message -----
From: "ETH Zurich" <ethz@hotmail.com>
To: <interchange-users@developer.akopia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [ic] Generating Keys & Applying Signatures


> Thanks for ur reply Dan!
>
> There is a problem with generating a PGP key-pair for a customer. The
> command requires the entering of a passphrase and some random keystrokes.
> How do I:
>
> 1. Make it work in such a way that the passphrase for the key-pair is the
> same as the customer's login password; i.e extract the login password of
the
> customer from the user database and feed it directly into the commandline?
>
> 2. Skip the usual process of entering some random keystrokes for the
> generating of the key-pair so that everything will be done automatically
and
> the key-pair saved onto disc?
>
> Thanks in advanced!
>
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> > >  At 09:33 PM 6/25/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> > >  >I need to modify the Create New Account and the Check Out processes
in
> > >  >such a way that:
> > >  >
> > >  >1. Whenever a new user register him/herself, Interchange will
generate
> >a
> > >  >key-pair for him/her and store it a certain directory on the server;
> > >  >
> > >  >2. Whenever a registered user checked out, Interchange will make use
> >of
> > >  >the user's key-pair to sign on the purchase order before encrypting
it
> >and
> > >  >sending it to the supervisor.
> > >  >
> > >  >Interchange already provides the functions to encrypt and send the
> > >  >purchase order via (encrypted) email to the supervisor. What I would
> >like
> > >  >to do now is to modify the process such that it will do the 2 things
> >that
> > >  >I stated above. The most important thing is for Interchange to SIGN
> >the
> > >  >purchase order using the buyer's key-pair before encrypting and
> >sending it
> > >  >to the higher level.
> > >  >
> > >  >Can anybody please help me?
> > >
> > >  Checkout the [encrypt] usertag, posted by Ed L. a while back (and
> >attached
> > >  here).  It seems like you'll need to manually program all the stuff
> >about
> > >  generating keypairs, but you can use this to easily call gpg with
> >specific
> > >  parameters and input.
> > >
> > >  Dan Browning, Cyclone Computer Systems, danb@cyclonecomputers.com
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