Possible to recreate GPG using pen and paper?

2009-06-04 Thread Harry Rickards
Would it be possible to do the same job that GPG does (using all the same algorithms) simply using a pen and paper? You can do simple public key crypto with RSA, by choosing two primes and doing a multitude of stuff with them. I understand that it will take a while to actually encrypt/dec

backup all keys of DSA+ELG pair?

2009-06-04 Thread Kārlis Repsons
Hi there, please, how can I make a keypair of DSA and ELG keys, 4 keys, as I understand, and then export all of them to another machine's gpg? Using --export, --export-secret-keys, --export-secret-subkeys, then --import for each of 3 previous commands failed me... Also the same, if I used key I

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:50, allen.schu...@gmail.com said: > Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? If > not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? I don't know and I am not interested to look thi up. GPGShell is proprietary software! Note that there is another frontend called "GnuP

Re: Is it possible to force decryption with the wrong key type

2009-06-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 22:55, li...@michel-messerschmidt.de said: > Is there any chance to force decryption of the files? > My secret keys are located on a OpenPGP smartcard. @item --try-all-secrets Don't look at the key ID as stored in the message but try all secret keys in turn to find the

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Peter Pentchev wrote: > Errr, unless I'm badly mistaken, gpg-agent doesn't come with GnuPG 1.4.x > and to build and use it, you need some of those component libraries. > And, at least for me, gpg-agent is a very, very comfortable and > convenient to

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:21:04PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote: > Allen Schultz wrote: > > Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? > > Not that I know of. > > > If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? > > Maybe? But why should it? > > Everything OpenPGP related is provided by

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread John Clizbe
Allen Schultz wrote: > Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? Not that I know of. > If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? Maybe? But why should it? Everything OpenPGP related is provided by GnuPG 1.4. GnuPG's added X.509 functions aren't needed by GPGshell. There still

gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread Allen Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? Allen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) - GPGshell v3.72 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJKKEGQAAoJEMNyjCz1VlHgJc4IAILQZ1fYMXKtiV7W+y1+AA

Is it possible to force decryption with the wrong key type

2009-06-04 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
Hi, I received some files encrypted by a not really OpenPGP compliant product. Instead of using the encryption sub key, the files are encrypted with the primary key. Is there any chance to force decryption of the files? My secret keys are located on a OpenPGP smartcard. $ gpg2 -vv --decrypt

New WinPT-Version 1.4.0

2009-06-04 Thread Barry Fantasy
Hello, there has been released an new version of WinPT. Info: http://winpt.gnupt.de -- Barry ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users