Encrypting with Private Key

2006-06-23 Thread utternoncesense
Does GPG enable me to encrypt a file with my private key? Obviously it encrypts hashes with my private key for signatures, I'd like to do it for a file. And yes, I realize that this provides absolutely no security, and yes, I know I could more efficiently prove a file came from myself by just en

Re: personal-cipher/digest-preferences

2006-06-23 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 05:56:21PM +0200, Jørgen Lysdal wrote: > Thanks for you guys help.. :) > > However, i have a small problem. > > I dont want to interfere with any selection process > by having a personal-cipher/digest-preferences in my options > file. > > I have a RSA and a DSA key, When

Re: personal-cipher/digest-preferences

2006-06-23 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jørgen Lysdal wrote: > Is there anything i can put in my options file that will make > gpg use SHA256 for my RSA and RIPEMD160 for my DSA without > having the personal-digest-preferences thing in my options file? > > This is really important to me

Re: Moving to another computer

2006-06-23 Thread Steven Joerger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Option 3 (no compression - OUCH!): > -- > $ cd > $ tar -cvf gnupg.tar -exclude random_seed ./.gnupg > # copy gnupg.tar file to your home folder ... > tar -xvf gnupg.tar Just out of curiosity, is there something wrong

Re: personal-cipher/digest-preferences

2006-06-23 Thread Jørgen Lysdal
Thanks for you guys help.. :) However, i have a small problem. I dont want to interfere with any selection process by having a personal-cipher/digest-preferences in my options file. I have a RSA and a DSA key, When im using the RSA key i want to use SHA256, and RIPEMD160 for my DSA key, when i u