Re: gpg-agent caching with smartcard

2006-01-11 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:34:36PM +0100, Werner Koch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes, this is a bug. > > It will soon start to bite me more and more because I am now actually > using a card productive many times a day ... Duh. It makes the card essentially unusable for the purpose I had in min

Re: gemplus GEMPC430 reader

2006-01-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Sean Rima wrote: > I may have the chance to inherit a Gemplus gemPC430 USB card reader > to use with my PC. I am looking to get an gpg card from kernel > concepts, but want to know if anyone has used this reader with gpg I cannot tell you definitely if it works, but at least in Debian there

Re: Random seed for symetric encryption

2006-01-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Nikolaus Rath wrote: >Now I wonder why gpg needs random data for symetric encryption. Should >I care about the message or not? And how can I make it disappear? > > As far as I know, even for symmetric encryption gnupg uses a session key package, which is than encrypted via s2k-algorithms (your p

gemplus GEMPC430 reader

2006-01-11 Thread Sean Rima
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello gnupg-users, I may have the chance to inherit a Gemplus gemPC430 USB card reader to use with my PC. I am looking to get an gpg card from kernel concepts, but want to know if anyone has used this reader with gpg Sean - -- +

gemplus GEMPC430 reader (resent)

2006-01-11 Thread Sean Rima
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello gnupg-users, I may have the chance to inherit a Gemplus gemPC430 USB card reader to use with my PC. I am looking to get an gpg card from kernel concepts, but want to know if anyone has used this reader with gpg Sean - -- +

Random seed for symetric encryption

2006-01-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello! I'm using gpg to symetrically encrypt a lot of files. Unfortunately, gpg regularly complains about an empty random seed while processing. Now I wonder why gpg needs random data for symetric encryption. Should I care about the message or not? And how can I make it disappear? Thanks, --

Re: gpg-agent caching with smartcard

2006-01-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:31:07 +0200, Tapani Tarvainen said: > Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Yes, this is a bug. It will soon start to bite me more and more because I am now actually using a card productive many times a day ... Salam-Shalom, Werner

gpg-agent caching with smartcard

2006-01-11 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
I can't seem to make gpg-agent cache smartcard PIN at all, whether signing, decrypting or authenticating ssh. All of those work fine otherwise, but I have to enter the PIN every time. I did set "signature PIN" to "not forced" in the card. I am using subkeys, which may or may not be relevant, gpg

Re: Textmode for dummies (me)

2006-01-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:39:00 -0700, Kurt Fitzner said: > the only time GnuPG writes an input file to its output as text. So, I > did the following on a Linux box: > $ gpg --clearsign --textmode test1.txt --clearsign automatically enables --textmode. The rationale for the plain textmode (binar

Re: Bug in GnuPG

2006-01-11 Thread Kurt Fitzner
It seems to me that the loop nesting just needs to be reversed. It seems like the way GnuPG works is that it has a list of session keys, and a list of private keys. It then iterates through the list of session keys and tries to see if any private key matches. This makes it so that if the session