Re: Strange problem and key preferences

2005-09-24 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:57:21PM +0400, lusfert wrote: > Also I didn't understand how to set up preferences for a key: > allowed and preferred ciphers, digest algorithms and compress > methods. It is possible to set up them using PGP Desktop 9. gpg --edit-key 0xKeyID setpref "the preferences yo

Re: Strange problem and key preferences

2005-09-24 Thread Johan Wevers
lusfert wrote: >gpg -d file.ext.asc > >I receive long output of hard readable characters and PC Speaker loud >beeping. You forgot to use -a for ASCII mode. As a Unix-like program, gpg does nothing with extensions so calling an output filename something.asc won't automagically trigger ASCII mode.

Re: GPG Passphrase on the command line

2005-09-24 Thread Johan Wevers
Low, Claudia wrote: > Is there an option, eg. --passphrase, that I can use so that I can >pass the passphrase in the command line when doing a signing, symmetric >encryption or decryption? Without this option, I will be prompted on the >console. No, you'll have to pipe it through a file descript

Re: Strange problem and key preferences

2005-09-24 Thread Tracy D. Bossong
use: gpg --use-embedded-filename file.ext.asc I think that is what you are looking for... or use gpg --decrypt --output file.ext file.ext.asc --- lusfert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Hello! > > I'm currenly using GnuPG 1.4.2 on WinXP

Strange problem and key preferences

2005-09-24 Thread lusfert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello! I'm currenly using GnuPG 1.4.2 on WinXP SP2 and I have a problem: When I write gpg -d file.ext.asc I receive long output of hard readable characters and PC Speaker loud beeping. I can stop this only by manual ending processes cmd.exe an

Re: --throw-keyid and -R options

2005-09-24 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:46:12PM +0200, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: > > Is there any difference between the effects of following commands? > > gpg -e -R alice -R bob file > > gpg -e -r alice -r bob --throw-keyid file Since you are using -R (which does a per-recipient --throw-keyid) f

Re: GPG Passphrase on the command line

2005-09-24 Thread Tracy D. Bossong
You didn't specify your platform, but in Windows it's done like this: echo mypasshrase|gpg --encrypt --passphrase-fd 0. --- "Low, Claudia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an option, eg. --passphrase, that I can > use so that I can > pass the passphrase in the command line wh

GPG Passphrase on the command line

2005-09-24 Thread Low, Claudia
Hi, Is there an option, eg. --passphrase, that I can use so that I can pass the passphrase in the command line when doing a signing, symmetric encryption or decryption? Without this option, I will be prompted on the console. In my program, I can only use command line to execute the commands. I

--throw-keyid and -R options

2005-09-24 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
Is there any difference between the effects of following commands? gpg -e -R alice -R bob file gpg -e -r alice -r bob --throw-keyid file And when I abbreviate --throw-keyid to --throw or --throw-keyi even, I get the error: gpg: Option "--throw-key" is ambiguous There is nothing else that st