Re: trying to understand UID and subkeys

2009-03-12 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:08:35PM +1000, Felipe Alvarez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:10 AM, David Shaw wrote: > >> What do the letters to the right of the words "usage" mean? (S,C,A,E) I > >> can only guess |S|ign, |E|ncrypt, > > > > (S)ign: sign some data (like a file) > > (C)ertify:

Re: trying to understand UID and subkeys

2009-03-12 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Felipe Alvarez escribió: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:10 AM, David Shaw wrote: >>> What do the letters to the right of the words "usage" mean? (S,C,A,E) I >>> can only guess |S|ign, |E|ncrypt, >> (S)ign: sign some data (like a file) >> (C)ertify

re: gpg doesn't fail on target file existing when decrypting

2009-03-12 Thread vedaal
Andrew Flerchinger icrf.ml at gmail.com wrote on Wed Mar 11 21:15:20 CET 2009 : > My problem is when I don't tell it to overwrite > and the target exists, it looks like it > properly decrypted the file, > except it does nothing >I'm trying to figure out if I'm doing something wrong, no, you'

Re: trying to understand UID and subkeys

2009-03-12 Thread Felipe Alvarez
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:10 AM, David Shaw wrote: >> What do the letters to the right of the words "usage" mean? (S,C,A,E) I >> can only guess |S|ign, |E|ncrypt, > > (S)ign: sign some data (like a file) > (C)ertify: sign a key (this is called certification) > (A)uthenticate: authenticate you