Re: gnome-keyring

2005-10-05 Thread Lukasz Stelmach
Byla godzina 09:58:23 w Wednesday 05 October, gdy do autobusu wsiadl kanar i wrzasnal:"Johan Wevers!!! Bilecik do kontroli!!!" A on(a) na to: LS>> What do you think about using gnome-keyring to store GnuPG passwords? JW> It would require users to install many bulky Gnome libs. I don't think JW>

Re: Migrating from PGP TO GPG

2005-10-05 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:41:17AM -0700, amit bhalerao wrote: > Is there any way i can validate that decryption process has been > successful base on error code? Do you have any document which list > down possible error code and cause of failure. Use --status-fd and read doc/DETAILS in t

gpg-agent PIN cache

2005-10-05 Thread Joerg Schmitz-Linneweber
Hi Werner, hi all! I've a problem with "PIN keeping" in gpg-agent (version numbers below). Everythings works fine: I start up gpg-agent: # eval `gpg-agent -v --enable-ssh-support --daemon \ --log-file /home/jsl/ga.log --debug-level expert --default-cache-ttl-ssh\ 2` and I can see my "new" ke

Re: Migrating from PGP TO GPG

2005-10-05 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:02:52PM -0700, amit bhalerao wrote: > I want to decrypt a gpg encrypted document using a GPG. Is there > any way i can decrypt it in a non -interactive mode so that it > doesn't ask for passphrase.I want to execute the command in shell > script. > Any pointer t

Re: Expiration Date on Subkeys and PGP

2005-10-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:42:51 +0200 (MET DST), Johan Wevers said: > That depends on your definition. But I guess it would be allowed to > distribute it with a Linux distribution. From the LICENSE file from Debian does not allow this - maybe it was included in the former non-free repository but that

[Announce] Libgcrypt 1.2.2 released

2005-10-05 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt 1.2.2. Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic building blocks. It is based on the code used in GnuPG. This is a bug fix release solving a weakness in the random number generator when used by forking servers. Ther

Re: Expiration Date on Subkeys and PGP

2005-10-05 Thread Johan Wevers
Werner Koch wrote: >pgp5 can't be part of Debian because it is clearly non-free software. That depends on your definition. But I guess it would be allowed to distribute it with a Linux distribution. From the LICENSE file from a pgp 5.0i source (I still have it, although I never succeeded in compi

Re: Expiration Date on Subkeys and PGP [was: Re: Convert "Sign Only"

2005-10-05 Thread Johan Wevers
Klaus Fuerstberger wrote: >just a "Sign Only" Key! At least for my pgp5i Version from debian/oldstable. One warning: don't generate production keys with that version. It is known to have a buggy random generator so its keys are weak. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction

Re: OpenPGP Card and ssh howto

2005-10-05 Thread Jörn Bratzke
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: >Seems there is an error in the email you sent. Just thought I'd let you >know that your email wasn't , at least for me, signed correctly. > > > Yepp i know something went wrong with enigmail :-/. Greetings, Jörn ___ Gnupg-us

Re: Expiration Date on Subkeys and PGP

2005-10-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:55:34 +0200, Klaus Fuerstberger said: > "expire" command, the Key becomes again a "Sign Only" public Key for > PGP5. So now the strange thing. When I try to set the expiration Date PGP 5 is known to be full of bugs - some of them are severe security bugs. For example it ca

Re: gnome-keyring

2005-10-05 Thread Johan Wevers
Lukasz Stelmach wrote: >What do you think about using gnome-keyring to store GnuPG passwords? It would require users to install many bulky Gnome libs. I don't think that's a good idea. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.xs4all.

Expiration Date on Subkeys and PGP [was: Re: Convert "Sign Only" Primary Key]

2005-10-05 Thread Klaus Fuerstberger
Hi, Alphax said the following on 10/04/05 14:56: >>a time ago I created a "Sign Only" DSA Key with an ElGamal Encrypt >>Subkey. Now I noticed that it is not possible to encrypt a message with >>PGP to this Public Key because PGP only sees the "sign only" primary Key >>and not the