Re: The never-ending GD discussion,part 74

2005-10-27 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Was Thu, 27 Oct 2005, at 10:51:22 +0200, when Realos wrote: [about the personal web pages for public PGP keys] > Yes this may be the best of both types of servers. It seems to be a > very small change in protocol. Well, the protocols ar

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-27 Thread Alex Mauer
David Shaw wrote: > You always have the option to not sign, of course. But you don't get > to tell the keyholder what information he puts in his user ID string. > You don't create that, and it must be signed completely or not signed > at all. Of course it is not possible to tell the key holder wh

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-27 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote: > > You don't. But it's not up to you as the signer - it's up to the key > > holder to say how he wants to be known. > > Not really. It's up to me as the signer to affirm how I know the key > holder. Or not sign at all if I can't veri

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-27 Thread Alex Mauer
David Shaw wrote: > Because they're not joined together it is not a real disambiguation. > With two UIDs, it is possible for someone to remove one without > affecting the other. OK ... and what would that gain them? > We've established that people are sometimes > unwilling to sign "David Shaw"

Re: Encrypted file filename

2005-10-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:18:50 -0500, Wes said: > I also see --set-filename. However, I don't see any way to read the > embedded file name. [GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION [GNUPG:] PLAINTEXT 62 1130429959 x # mode timestamp filename [GNUPG:] PLAINTEXT_LENGTH 63 [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_OKAY

Re: allowed commands on keys that keyservers handle correctly

2005-10-27 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:13:27PM +0200, Realos wrote: > > >> If I like to remove my signature from a certain key and/or uid, what is > >> the best approach to that? Does it make sense to revoke the signature or > >> just delete it? I find both of these commands in "gpg" software but am > >> uncl

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-27 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:26:31PM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > >>>Some people > >>>will not sign such a user ID though, > > > > It's not an issue of improving the trust, it's an issue of > > disambiguation. > > Right, so why is it any better to have a key with: > 0x992425

Encrypted file filename

2005-10-27 Thread Wes
I found the answer I was looking for by enabling status-fd [GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION [GNUPG:] PLAINTEXT 62 167772160 small.doc [GNUPG:] PLAINTEXT_LENGTH 19456 [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_OKAY Wes ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lis

Re: ECC

2005-10-27 Thread John Clizbe
Topas wrote: > Hi. > > When are we going to have ECC support in GnuPG? > Well, first it has to make it into the OpenPGP Standard. And usually to do that, it would likely need to be part of some governmental or business standard so that large numbers of end-users would want/need it. Second, most

Re: Encrypted file filename

2005-10-27 Thread Wes
On 10/26/05 4:40 PM, "Tracy D. Bossong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead of --decrypt, use > > gpg --use-embedded-filename myfile.pgp > Well, not instead but in addition to --decrypt. > --use-embedded-filename is an option. Ok, I see that now in the man page, just not in the command line u

Re: allowed commands on keys that keyservers handle correctly

2005-10-27 Thread Realos
>Not TRUE, I have 2 Keys listed on BL with the same email address. >However they have different BL assigned passwords, so they are Separate >Listings! So, you have some difference on uids for these 2 keys? Like different entry in name or description? -- Realos

Re: allowed commands on keys that keyservers handle correctly

2005-10-27 Thread John W. Moore III
Realos wrote: > > Replacing an old key with updated one seems to be possible with > biglumber and such other servers. Such servers have the disadvatage of > not syncing with other public servers and only allowing one public key > per email address. > > Are there any other drawbacks of Biglumber

Re: ECC

2005-10-27 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:33:37PM +0200, Topas wrote: > Hi. > > When are we going to have ECC support in GnuPG? There is an experimental patch at http://alumnes.eps.udl.es/~d4372211/index.en.html However, there will not be official support in GnuPG until the OpenPGP standard gets ECC support.

Re: The never-ending GD discussion,part 74

2005-10-27 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Realos wrote: >>It turns out that this way is even the best one (so far; and in the >>"category" of the worldwide scattering of the keys): you can't upload >>any key without authorization, and you can upload as much of them as you >>want/need. > >

Re: ECC

2005-10-27 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Topas wrote: > Hi. > > When are we going to have ECC support in GnuPG? > Is it in OpenPGP yet? - -- Alphax | /"\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTM

Re: Lots of questions

2005-10-27 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Disclaimer: I'm not a developer, hence I haven't crossposted to -devel. Any answers given here are my own opinions and might be completely wrong. You have been warned. Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > (btw: I'm using solely Linux so I don't have

Re: allowed commands on keys that keyservers handle correctly

2005-10-27 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Realos wrote: >>>If I like to remove my signature from a certain key and/or uid, what is >>>the best approach to that? Does it make sense to revoke the signature or >>>just delete it? I find both of these commands in "gpg" software but am >>>unclear

ECC

2005-10-27 Thread Topas
Hi. When are we going to have ECC support in GnuPG? Regards, topas. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: invalid packet - ignore errors?

2005-10-27 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 21 Oct 2005 09:36:27 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > *Is it possible to make gnupg ignore errors when decrypting > files?* > > 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 encr

Re: Lots of questions

2005-10-27 Thread Sven Radde
Hello! I can't answer all your questions, but I will go for those that I can. Christoph Anton Mitterer schrieb: > 2) GnuPG (and I think OpenPGP specifies that, too?) uses hybrid > algortihm, meaning that when encrypting data, it's first encryptet > using a symmetric algorithm (e.g. AES) with a

Re: documentation about gpg.conf file?

2005-10-27 Thread Realos
> >OPTIONS > > Long options can be put in an options file (default > "~/.gnupg/gpg.conf"). Short option names will not work - for > exam- ple, "armor" is a valid option for the options file, > while "a" is not. Do not write the 2 dashes, but simply the > name of the

Re: allowed commands on keys that keyservers handle correctly

2005-10-27 Thread Realos
>> If I like to remove my signature from a certain key and/or uid, what is >> the best approach to that? Does it make sense to revoke the signature or >> just delete it? I find both of these commands in "gpg" software but am >> unclear what to use. > >You need to revoke the signature once you have

Feature request: expand 'clean' to 'clean total'

2005-10-27 Thread Dirk Traulsen
Hi! I first posted this under an old (but fitting) thread and got no response. Sorry, if you already read it. Nowadays there are quite some keys, which have several hundred signatures on their UIDs. This is a good thing for the WoT, but it clutters the local keyrings, as normally you don't have

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-27 Thread Realos
>> >> I don't understand why. If you trust the association of the Name and >> key, how/why would having an email address in there as well improve >> the >> trust? > >It's not an issue of improving the trust, it's an issue of >disambiguation. In my case, there are many different David Shaws out >

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-27 Thread Realos
Ismael Valladolid Torres wanted us to know: >Joost van Baal wrote: > >>On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:38:49PM -0400, David Shaw wrote: >>>It's not an issue of improving the trust, it's an issue of >>>disambiguation. In my case, there are many different David Shaws out >>>there, including a furniture

Re: [gpgol] A few questions...

2005-10-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:46:20 -0400, Richard Jensen said: > Is there a way to set the default key to use for signing? > In Enigmail it uses the email address to choose the key, but > in gpgol I always get a dialog and need to select the key from > a list. That is a missing feature.

Re: documentation about gpg.conf file?

2005-10-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:23:30 +0200, Realos said: > http://kai.iks-jena.de/pgp/gpg/gpg5.html (German). Manpage only > describes how to enter these option on command line but no special not > about configuration file is give. Hmmm, from the man page: OPTIONS Long options can be put in an

Re: The never-ending GD discussion,part 74

2005-10-27 Thread Realos
>It turns out that this way is even the best one (so far; and in the >"category" of the worldwide scattering of the keys): you can't upload >any key without authorization, and you can upload as much of them as you >want/need. Yes this may be the best of both types of servers. It seems to be a ver

Re: Encrypted file filename

2005-10-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:40:49 -0700 (PDT), Tracy D Bossong said: > Instead of --decrypt, use > gpg --use-embedded-filename myfile.pgp Well, not instead but in addition to --decrypt. --use-embedded-filename is an option. Shalom-Salam, Werner ___ G

documentation about gpg.conf file?

2005-10-27 Thread Realos
I was wondering if there is a good documentation about how to edit gpg.conf file. Over the last weeks I have gained quite an acceptable understanding of gpg but still need to go a log way before feeling realy comfortable with advanced options. I would like to define my own policy for WoT and thus