Re: Help with encrypting using my PGP Public key

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:28:58 bkumfer wrote: > Thank you again. Is there a difference between encrypting a file vs. > encrypting an email? Not really. It just bits n bytes. Anything gpg takes in as input (files, plaintext, whatever) it just happily signs and/or encrypts. If you are emailing the o

Re: DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Absolutely true. That said, very few directors of the NSA have gone on > to become CEOs of telephone companies. William P. Crowell served as DDO > and Deputy Director for the NSA up until he joined Cylink in '98. Not CEO

Re: DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

John W. Moore III wrote: > Hmm... Well, if anyone is paranoid to the extreme of distrusting > /every/ Vendor that NSA contracts with then Ya better stock up on the > Xanax. At one time or another the Puzzle Palace has 'partnered with' or > spent huge sums of money with almost every hardware & a h

Re: DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Many people think Cylink has a history of regrettably close cooperation > with the NSA. Some people consider their products to be suspect as a > result of this. Given that, it should be pointed out that PGP > Corporation

Re: Encryption failing due to missing(?) or unsigned(?) keys

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Galloway, Gary wrote: > I'm having an issue on a new server (Debian-Lenny) I'm migrating to. > Encryption is failing with the following message: > > > Some keys missing or need signing: > us...@host.com > us...@host.

Re: Help with encrypting using my PGP Public key

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 11:28 -0700, bkumfer wrote: > Thank you again. Is there a difference between encrypting a file vs. > encrypting an email? Not really,... but with eMail,.. there mail be "additional" standards used (PGP for MIME). Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Help with encrypting using my PGP Public key

On Apr 24, 2009, at 12:40 PM, bkumfer wrote: Thanks for your help. To create the key, I followed the --gpg -gen-key command - used key length of 1024 bits. I examined this key and there is nothing particularly unusual about it. The only thing that jumps out (and this is a reach) is that

Re: Help with encrypting using my PGP Public key

bkumfer wrote: > Thank you again. Is there a difference between encrypting a file vs. > encrypting an email? This depends on how you use it. From the perspective of OpenPGP, everything's a file. An email message is just a file you send over the internet via the SMTP protocol. There is an enorm

Re: Help with encrypting using my PGP Public key

Thank you again. Is there a difference between encrypting a file vs. encrypting an email? We are using PGP in conjunction with the banks we do business with in order to get daily files of deposits into our accounts. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Help-with-encrypting-u

Re: DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

On Apr 24, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: David Shaw wrote: The patent holders (Cylink) simply wanted to push the name Diffie-Hellman for marketing reasons. Many people think Cylink has a history of regrettably close cooperation with the NSA. Some people consider their product

Re: Help with encrypting using my PGP Public key

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 bkumfer escribió: > Thanks for your help. To create the key, I followed the > > --gpg -gen-key command - used key length of 1024 bits. I successfully sent an encrypted message to you, and the preferences in your key looks "normal" to me... Enc

Re: Help with encrypting using my PGP Public key

Thanks for your help. To create the key, I followed the --gpg -gen-key command - used key length of 1024 bits. Then I exported using this command: --gpg --export --armor --output c:\temp\file.asc The key is below: -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) mQGhBEn

Re: DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

David Shaw wrote: > The patent holders (Cylink) simply wanted to push the name > Diffie-Hellman for marketing reasons. Many people think Cylink has a history of regrettably close cooperation with the NSA. Some people consider their products to be suspect as a result of this. Given that, it shoul

Encryption failing due to missing(?) or unsigned(?) keys

[] I'm having an issue on a new server (Debian-Lenny) I'm migrating to. Encryption is failing with the following message: Some keys missing or need signing: us...@host.com us...@host.com To the best I can determine( since I'm new to this encryption stuff), the keys are not missing, they a

Re: Bad signatures on Gmail messages

On Friday, April 24, 2009, at 01:07AM, "Werner Koch" wrote: >On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:15, jmoore...@bellsouth.net said: > >> GPG supports PGP/MIME without any trouble; but not all MUA's can handle >> PGP/MIME. Most notably, all of the MUA's distributed by M$. :-\ > >Well with GpgOL Outlook is ab

Re: DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

On Apr 24, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Felipe Alvarez wrote: It's historical. Back in the late 1990s, the PGP developers were offered a free patent license if they called it Diffie-Hellman. Now that the patent has expired, though, it's a little hard to change their product without confusing a bunch of

Re: DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

> It's historical. Back in the late 1990s, the PGP developers were > offered a free patent license if they called it Diffie-Hellman. Now > that the patent has expired, though, it's a little hard to change > their product without confusing a bunch of customers who would see > their "Diffie-Hellman

Re: DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

On Apr 24, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: allen.schu...@gmail.com wrote: What is the difference between DH/DSS and ElGamel/DSS? I was reading up on S/MIME v3 and PGP/MIME differences when that came up. I don't know how it's used in the S/MIME standard. However, the Elgamal en

Re: DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

allen.schu...@gmail.com wrote: > What is the difference between DH/DSS and ElGamel/DSS? I was reading up > on S/MIME v3 and PGP/MIME differences when that came up. I don't know how it's used in the S/MIME standard. However, the Elgamal encryption algorithm is often misnamed the Diffie-Hellman enc

Re: Bad signatures on Gmail messages

Werner Koch wrote: > I have signed this message along with a simple text attachment as > an example. Note that some version of the mailing list manager Mailman > unfortunately breaks all kinds of signatures. gpg: armor header: Hash: SHA1 gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v2.0.12-svn4945 (GNU/Lin

Re: Bad signatures on Gmail messages

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Werner Koch wrote: an example.  Note that some version of the mailing list manager Mailman unfortunately breaks all kinds of signatures. I never noticed a break in the PGP/MIME styled signing through a mailing list. Yours did come through just fine. -- Allen

DH/DSS vs ElGame/DSS?

What is the difference between DH/DSS and ElGamel/DSS? I was reading up on S/MIME v3 and PGP/MIME differences when that came up. Just curious, and thanks in advance. -- Allen Schultz signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-u

Re: Bad signatures on Gmail messages

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:21, allen.schu...@gmail.com said: > That's the format that attaches the .sig file to the email of the same email? Right. It is a multipart message: One to contain the actual message, including attachments and one with the detached signature of the first part. I have signed

Re: Bad signatures on Gmail messages

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:15, jmoore...@bellsouth.net said: > GPG supports PGP/MIME without any trouble; but not all MUA's can handle > PGP/MIME. Most notably, all of the MUA's distributed by M$. :-\ Well with GpgOL Outlook is able to parse PGP/MIME message. The newer version even shows such mail