Re: Naming of GnuPG

2008-04-28 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: | On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 02:20 -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: |> I'd like to see GPG remain the name for only 1.4. |> |> GnuPG 2.x introduces a lot of new crypto support that is not related |> to |> OpenPGP. The origin

Re: dearmor in GPGME

2008-04-28 Thread David Shaw
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > Thanks, I was aware of that, but hoping for a built-in method that > > would do it better, including checking the checksum for me. Oh well, a > > Forget about the CRC checksum.

Re: dearmor in GPGME

2008-04-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Thanks, I was aware of that, but hoping for a built-in method that > would do it better, including checking the checksum for me. Oh well, a Forget about the CRC checksum. It is cruft from old days when mail gateways garbled messages and PGP di

Re: dearmor in GPGME

2008-04-28 Thread Cameron Dale
On 4/28/08, Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However the format is pretty simple: It is the usual base-64 encoding > enclosed in header lines. Look for the 5-dash header line, then wait > for an empty line and start your base-64 decoder with the next line. > A plain base-64 decoder sho

Re: Naming of GnuPG

2008-04-28 Thread Hideki Saito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, 10 years ago, probably there was just a single variety of GnuPG (g10)... - -- Hideki Saito | On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: | |> GnuPG 2.x introduces a lot of new crypto support that is not related to |> OpenPGP. The or

Re: dearmor in GPGME

2008-04-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have an armored detached signature that I want to dearmor (without > using the original plain text). I can do it on the command line with > the --dearmor option, but how can I do it in GPGME? Is it possible? You can't. However the format is

Re: Naming of GnuPG

2008-04-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > GnuPG 2.x introduces a lot of new crypto support that is not related to > OpenPGP. The original metonymy is no longer appropriate. Well, PGP also has support for X.509 and a lot more. It is funny that the naming issue is such a hot topic. We

Re: gpg smartcard troubles

2008-04-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > unable to decrypt files encrypted for the encryption subkey or signing > with the sign subkey, though they are listed when i do a "gpg > --edit-key" as beeing subkeys... Are they also listed as secret subkeys (sbb)? 1.4.8 fixed a stub key crea