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A comment on Show HN: Shell utility to encrypt a file into a self-decrypting script.

Re:Show HN: Shell utility to encrypt a file into a self-decr... by Freaky on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:55PM (#11550567)
Needs a digital signature to verify that neither the data nor the code to decrypt it has been modified.

.. and that signature can't really be verified by unverified code.

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Re:Show HN: Shell utility to encrypt a file into a self-decr... by vbezhenar on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:07PM (#11550663)
Yes, encrypted file includes unencrypted public key (even if it doesn't need it to decrypt) and it means that anyone who has access to the encrypted file, can produce another encrypted file with the same key. I wanted it to be very simple to use, but probably I'll reconsider that.
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