Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 1

2009-02-01 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 1, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Peter Thomas wrote: On really last addition on this (promised :-) ): I tried to mix up keys with new and old packet header types. Is it desired that gnupg simply converts them back to old packet headers (if possible) without any notice to the user? The packet header

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 1

2009-02-01 Thread John Clizbe
Peter Thomas wrote: > On really last addition on this (promised :-) ): > I tried to mix up keys with new and old packet header types. > Is it desired that gnupg simply converts them back to old packet > headers (if possible) without any notice to the user? > > What will keyservers do when someone

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 1

2009-02-01 Thread Peter Thomas
On really last addition on this (promised :-) ): I tried to mix up keys with new and old packet header types. Is it desired that gnupg simply converts them back to old packet headers (if possible) without any notice to the user? What will keyservers do when someone uploads a key with e.g. old pack

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 3

2009-02-01 Thread Peter Thomas
Hi list. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Peter Thomas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:48 PM, David Shaw wrote: >> The RFC is really a file format document more so than a "how to use trust" >> document. Every now and then it is suggested that a trust document or >> something like an OpenPGP

Re: gpg.exe Vista Crash

2009-02-01 Thread John Clizbe
Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:53, j...@mozilla-enigmail.org said: > >> The patch that allows execution on Vista was committed about a week after >> 1.4.7's release and first appears in 1.4.8. > > I was not really aware of that problem. See ChangeLog entries for 446[12] > Given t

Re: gpg.exe Vista Crash

2009-02-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:53, j...@mozilla-enigmail.org said: > The patch that allows execution on Vista was committed about a week after > 1.4.7's release and first appears in 1.4.8. I was not really aware of that problem. Given that Gpg4win 2.0 is still not in a state to replace 1.1.3 it might be

Re: trouble getting GnuPG 2.0.9 working with smartcard

2009-02-01 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Hi, Malte Gell schrieb: > with hope of finding more response I place my question now here. > > I have a Reiner SCT Cyberjack Secoder card reader and with the driver from > Reiner SCT's web site it works now, the diagnosis tool "cyberjack" says the > reader is available and accessable. > > In

Re: gpg.exe Vista Crash

2009-02-01 Thread John Clizbe
Brian wrote: > I downloaded 1.4.9 and installed it. I then grabbed WinPT and when > launching WinPT, I get repeated gpg.exe crashes, like I did before. > > I also downloaded GnuPT and installed that, which comes with 1.4.9 and > running that also causes gpg.exe crashes. > > I then took all of

Re: gpgwindir

2009-02-01 Thread Gabriel Taiwo Akindeju
Hi all,   gpgwindir ver 3 was released today and available for download at http://www21.brinkster.com/taiwoakindeju/gpgwindir.htm.   Additions to / improvements in version 3 Optimised memory utilisation. Optimised hard Disk space utilisation Enhanced file security (fail safe)   Regards Gabriel