automating signing of keys

2005-06-30 Thread DBSMITH
gpg users: I am running gpg 1.2.1 on AIX 5.2 I saw on the archive list ( http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10535214943&r=1&w=2) for automating key signing after an expiration of an individual key: gpg - -command-fd 0 - -status-fd 2 [...] but what is the full functional string: I tried gpg -

invalid packet (corrupt file?)

2005-06-30 Thread KG
I'm trying to decrypt a symmetrically encrypted file, but get the following error message(s): C:\gpg\gpg>gpg -v -o c:\out.bkf -d d:\data.bkf.gpg gpg: CAST5 encrypted data gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase gpg: original file name='data.bkf' gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=63) gpg: [don't know

Re: pgp keys in gnupg: IDEA need for all recipients?

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirchner
Werner Koch wrote: >>Yes, as long as your key requires the use of IDEA-encryption, >>everybody who's trying to encrypt to you has to use an IDEA-enabled > > Nope. IDEA is an optional algorithm in OpenPGP. All OpenPGP > compliant applications will use 3DES as the default algorithm if there > are

Re: "--for-your-eyes-only"

2005-06-30 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:16:59PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:54:39 +0200, Janusz A Urbanowicz said: > > > The aim of the secure viewer then was to make difficult to obtain eyes-only > > message text as a file or a pipe. It checked if output is a live tty, > > Okay, that

Re: pgp keys in gnupg: IDEA need for all recipients?

2005-06-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:23:17 +0200, Mark Kirchner said: > Yes, as long as your key requires the use of IDEA-encryption, > everybody who's trying to encrypt to you has to use an IDEA-enabled Nope. IDEA is an optional algorithm in OpenPGP. All OpenPGP compliant applications will use 3DES as the d

Re: pgp keys in gnupg: IDEA need for all recipients?

2005-06-30 Thread Mark Kirchner
Ugh, apologies for the direct reply to Uwe Brauer instead of the list. Uwe Brauer wrote: > [pgp2.6.3 key & IDEA]. As I understand it I have to compile idea.c > (and maybe rsa.c or rsaref.c) in order to use my key. > > However does this mean that _every_ user who will use my public > key, should

pgp keys in gnupg: IDEA need for all recipients?

2005-06-30 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello Since it seems my original message did not arrive, I resend it and apologise if it has been double posted. As a long term user of pgp.2.6.3 I want to switch to gnupgp, but would prefer to continue using my pgp key. So I looked up the information available in http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp