Multi-user gpg-agent question

2006-08-19 Thread Dylan Vaughn
Hello, I am trying to figure out an issue I'm having with gpg-agent. I have set up gpg and gpg-agent according to the guides here: http://www.madboa.com/geek/gpg-quickstart/ (for gpg) and here: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/378 (for gpg-agent) I am running Debian sarge, and

Re: Don't store your key on a flash drive! [was Re: GnuPG (GPG) Problem]

2006-08-19 Thread David Shaw
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:37:28PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > The OpenPGP smartcard is a much safer option, since it will not give > > up the private key (even if you have the password), and will lock > > itself after 3 incorrect password attempts. (And after 3 incorrect > > Admin PIN at

Re: Problem retrieving signed and encrypted emails

2006-08-19 Thread 1wing-angel
I'm sorry if you guys/gals recieved multilple copies of my post. It's just that I had problems posting up on this forum. I accidently posted 3 of the same post, which I then deleted 2 and kept the other one. Anyway it was just a mistake and I apologize. Ok this is to Charly Avital. I checked my p

Re: What does key properties validity and trust 'None' mean???

2006-08-19 Thread John Clizbe
Bo Berglund wrote: > We are new to GPG and we have used gpg4win 1.0.5 to install the > programs on Windows XP Pro PC:s. Some years ago we used PGP 7, but now > it turns out that we cannot get it to work on our XP-Pro PC:s so we > are trying GPG instead. You may wish to find a copy of PGP 8.0.x or

Re: Don't store your key on a flash drive! [was Re: GnuPG (GPG) Problem]

2006-08-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Jonathan Rockway wrote: > I would recommend that you don't do that. What if you lose the > drive? Then your private key is compromised. Let's not use the word 'compromised'. Let's call it 'loss of control'. If I leave my wallet on my desktop for an hour while I go to a meeting, are my credit c

Don't store your key on a flash drive! [was Re: GnuPG (GPG) Problem]

2006-08-19 Thread Jonathan Rockway
I would recommend that you don't do that. What if you lose the drive? Then your private key is compromised. Do you have a revocation certificate in a safe location? If not, you can't even tell anyone that your private key has been compromised! Not good! The OpenPGP smartcard is a much safer o

Re: GnuPG (GPG) Problem

2006-08-19 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
John Clizbe escribe: > Just copy the keyring files. I store my private keyring and a public keyring containing only my public key on a pendrive, then in your gpg.conf: keyring /path/to/pendrive/pubring.gpg secret-keyring /path/to/pendrive/secring.gpg Using several different computers it works li

Re: What does key properties validity and trust 'None' mean???

2006-08-19 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Berglund wrote on 19.08.2006 11:01 Uhr: > I found one strange glitch though, old emails containing Swedish > characters decrypt to cleartext but are missing the Swedish chars. So > the words look really strange when there are supposed to be one of

Re: Problem retrieving encrypted email

2006-08-19 Thread Alphax
1wing-angel wrote: > I don't know if this is a Thunderbird issue, a GnuPG issue, or a Engimail > issue. I'm assuming it's Thunderbird's problem. I also don't know if I > should post this to you guys or Thunderbird or Enigmail, but anyway I hope > this is the right place. > > So far everything is

Re: What does key properties validity and trust 'None' mean???

2006-08-19 Thread Bo Berglund
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:11:58 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel ]slund) wrote: > >If I read you correctly you are exporting Keys from PGP7 for use with >GnuPG. Since you have used PGP before I assume that you are familiar >with the "web-of-trust". The owner trust on a key is not exported when >y

Re: What does key properties validity and trust 'None' mean???

2006-08-19 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:30:26AM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote: > We are new to GPG and we have used gpg4win 1.0.5 to install the > programs on Windows XP Pro PC:s. Some years ago we used PGP 7, but now > it turns out that we cannot get it to work on our XP-Pro PC:s so we > are trying GPG instead. >