Re: Moving to another computer

2006-06-22 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
>Robert J. Hansen wrote: >>> Matthew West wrote: Hi, I have all of my gnupg information set up on this current machine. How would I transfer my information to another computer. Is it fine to use the same information on both computers? >> >>> Copy ~/.gnupg/* to your other computer; s

Re: Quick --sign question

2006-06-22 Thread Gonzalo Bermúdez
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:41:00 -0400 Gentoo-Wally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you sign a file using --sign > > gpg --output doc.sig --sign doc > > the docs say > > http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN136 > > "The document is compressed before being signed, and the output is in > b

Re: Quick --sign question

2006-06-22 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:41:00PM -0400, Gentoo-Wally wrote: > If you sign a file using --sign > > gpg --output doc.sig --sign doc > > the docs say > > http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN136 > > "The document is compressed before being signed, and the output is in > binary format."

Quick --sign question

2006-06-22 Thread Gentoo-Wally
If you sign a file using --sign gpg --output doc.sig --sign doc the docs say http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN136 "The document is compressed before being signed, and the output is in binary format." This means that the output file doc.sig is compressed and signed. This does _NO

Re: Interesting error message on import

2006-06-22 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:41:32PM +0930, Alphax wrote: > On importing a large number of keys from a keyring backup, I saw the > message "gpg: assuming bad signature from key 0xE0BB4BCD due to an > unknown critical bit" about a dozen times. Can anyone explain what this > means, whether this is the

Re: Startup problem with WinPT (missing keys after couple of weeks).

2006-06-22 Thread Timo Schulz
On Thu Jun 22 2006; 10:10, Kim Haverblad wrote: > located I found that the pubring.gpg has been copied to pubring.bak and > pubring.gpg is now empty?! What went wrong here? The WinPT program never openes any keyring in write-mode. For the backup, just the pubring.gpg will be copied to pubring-bak

Startup problem with WinPT (missing keys after couple of weeks).

2006-06-22 Thread Kim Haverblad
No for while and usually on a system (running Win XP Pro SP2) that has been in use for couple of weeks WinPT suddenly starts up and claims following "The keycache was not initialized or is empty. Please check your PGP config (keyrings, pathes...) and I'm then asked to identify and locate the keyrin

Interesting error message on import

2006-06-22 Thread Alphax
On importing a large number of keys from a keyring backup, I saw the message "gpg: assuming bad signature from key 0xE0BB4BCD due to an unknown critical bit" about a dozen times. Can anyone explain what this means, whether this is the correct behaviour, and if I should be worried about it? --