How encrypt data/text stream instead of a file?

2008-12-17 Thread don rhummy
All the examples of using GnuPG are of giving it a local filename to encrypt or decrypt. How do I pass it data, either as a stream or byte by byte? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 arghman escribió: >>> * if I sign a message with that key pair, and someone challenges my >>> identity, what's the best/easiest way for me to prove my identity? > I don't need them to interoperate, I would just like to use the same key > pair. WoT

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Andre Amorim
>It's instead proposing something much different, which is > unrelated to the original poster's request sorry bob, rigth, I misunderstood what he had said. It is whiskey fault. :-) I'll read it again tom. kind regards, A.A. 2008/12/18 Robert J. Hansen : > Andre Amorim wrote: >>> X.509 (the standa

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Andre Amorim wrote: >> X.509 (the standard used by freemail certs) and OpenPGP use the same >> underlying algorithms, but the protocols are dramatically different. >> Making them interoperate is hard, and is usually not worth it. > > Robert did you already check this: The paper does not propose a

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Andre Amorim
>X.509 (the standard used by freemail certs) and OpenPGP use the same >underlying algorithms, but the protocols are dramatically different. >Making them interoperate is hard, and is usually not worth it. Robert did you already check this: FREEICP.ORG: FREE TRUSTED CERTIFICATES BY COMBINING THE X.

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
arghman wrote: > I don't need them to interoperate, I would just like to use the same key > pair. If they're using the same keypair, then they're interoperating. (For at least some definitions of 'interoperability.' Total interoperability is probably infeasible.) What you want to do is very har

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread arghman
>> * if I sign a message with that key pair, and someone challenges my >> identity, what's the best/easiest way for me to prove my identity? > >You can't. > >Identity cannot be proven. Evidence can be presented, but someone can s/prove/assert (at least I think assert is the right word... I coul

Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
arghman wrote: > * is this a bad idea? It is a _hard_ idea. It is not necessarily a bad or stupid idea. Like most things, whether it's inspired lunacy or just insane depends a lot on your particular problem domain. :) X.509 (the standard used by freemail certs) and OpenPGP use the same underly

using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-17 Thread arghman
I'm experimenting w/ using the "freemail" certificates from thawte & was just wondering if there is a way I can use them with gpg (openpgp, NOT S/MIME). I can figure out how to use openssl to extract the rsa public key / private key from the exported PKCS12 file, but I'm not sure how (or if) there

Re: How to remove "Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)" using enigmail?

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Young
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Apparently it worked. I like EnigMail. Vlad "SATtva" Miller wrote: > Marc Young (15.12.2008 01:18): >> How to remove "Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)" using enigmail? > > Open Enigmail preferences, make sure the "Display expert settings" is > set in B

Re: How to remove "Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)" using enigmail?

2008-12-17 Thread Vlad "SATtva" Miller
Marc Young (15.12.2008 01:18): > How to remove "Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)" using enigmail? Open Enigmail preferences, make sure the "Display expert settings" is set in Basic tab, open Advanced tab, and add this to "Additional parameters for GnuPG" field: --no-emit-version Alternatively, yo

GPA "Sign only locally" missing

2008-12-17 Thread J. Ottosson
Hi, I just performed two identical installs of GPG4WIN 1.1.3 on two different Win OSes, one 2003 server standard and one XP Pro. After everything is set and some keys are imported etc in both GPG (1.4.7) I used GPA to try to sign a key in both. Then I noticed that the window coming up when pre