Re: Error messages when generating new keys

2011-06-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:17, onemailid4mailingli...@edpnet.be said: > 2. I tried "$ gpg2 --gen-key", chose default options >and entered my infos (email address, name,…) >and I got: > gpg: problem with the agent: Bad CA certificate > gpg: problem with the agent: Invalid card >

Re: gpg-agent asks for ssh passphrase, although the private key has no passphras set

2011-06-27 Thread gitter
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:29, git...@safe-mail.net said: > > > I am using gpg-agent to manage my one and only ssh key. I generate my > > (private) ssh key via openpgp2ssh from my private gpg > > key. Unfortunately, although my private gpg key is not password > > protected, gpg-agent asks me for a pa

Re: Error messages when generating new keys

2011-06-27 Thread Olivier N.
> Please describe exactly what you are doing and what versions of GnuPG > are you using. Are you using a smartcard? Which one? Hi, What i did: 1. I installed gnupg2 [1] on my linux box [2] 2. I tried "$ gpg2 --gen-key", chose default options and entered my infos (email address, name,…)

Re: gpg-agent asks for ssh passphrase, although the private key has no passphras set

2011-06-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:29, git...@safe-mail.net said: > I am using gpg-agent to manage my one and only ssh key. I generate my > (private) ssh key via openpgp2ssh from my private gpg > key. Unfortunately, although my private gpg key is not password > protected, gpg-agent asks me for a passphrase (v

Re: Error messages when generating new keys

2011-06-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:42, onemailid4mailingli...@edpnet.be said: > > I'm a newbie GPG user. I'm using Linux and GPG2. > > When generating new keys, I get several error messages: Please describe exactly what you are doing and what versions of GnuPG are you using. Are you using a smartcard? Which

Re: DH Key

2011-06-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:10, l...@brooks.nu said: > Thanks for the reply. I don't know if a lot of people face this issue, > but if so, I would recommend putting it in the FAQ. It would Done. http://www.gnupg.org/faq/GnuPG-FAQ.html#what-are-dh-dss-keys Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken

Re: timestamp notation @gnupg.org

2011-06-27 Thread Jerome Baum
> What I miss is a real use case for it.  Is there someone implementing a > general purpose time stamping service?  IIRC, there used to be some 10 > years or more ago. Still any?  I don't know. There are a lot of general purpose time stamping services, such as -- though that is the only one I kno

Re: timestamp notation @gnupg.org

2011-06-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:21, jer...@jeromebaum.com said: > Just so that Werner has a summary of what we've discussed, to base a > decision on. Thanks for that summary. What I miss is a real use case for it. Is there someone implementing a general purpose time stamping service? IIRC, there used t

Re: Problem with faked-system-time option

2011-06-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:58, ds...@jabberwocky.com said: > key signature mean? Unless it's marked critical, the web of trust > code in both GPG and PGP will treat those signatures as fully > qualified ones and not just timestamp-only, yet if it is marked This is why one should use a separate key f

Re: how encrypt data/text stream instead of a file?

2011-06-27 Thread Jerome Baum
Hey Doc, > Sorry if I am out of line contacting you by email but I didn't see any other > way to ask a question. That's what this mailing list is for. > I am a newbie Perl programmer and I want to pipe plain text to GPG and have > it return the text encrypted. > > I have read quite a few article

re: how encrypt data/text stream instead of a file?

2011-06-27 Thread Doc Webb
Sorry if I am out of line contacting you by email but I didn't see any other way to ask a question. I am a newbie Perl programmer and I want to pipe plain text to GPG and have it return the text encrypted. I have read quite a few articles and came up with this chunk of code on my own BUT it doe

gpg-agent asks for ssh passphrase, although the private key has no passphras set

2011-06-27 Thread gitter
I am using gpg-agent to manage my one and only ssh key. I generate my (private) ssh key via openpgp2ssh from my private gpg key. Unfortunately, although my private gpg key is not password protected, gpg-agent asks me for a passphrase (via a nice X dialog) before I ssh to my server. Entering noth

Re: DH Key

2011-06-27 Thread Lane Brooks
On 06/23/2011 02:05 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:11:37 -0600, Lane Brooks wrote: I need to generate a 2048-bit PGP version 6.5.3 or later and of the type DH/DSS public key. For reasons I've never been able to understand, PGP insists on calling Elgamal "Diffie-Hellman," an

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2011-06-27 Thread gitter
I am using gpg-agent to manage my github ssh key. I generate my (private) ssh key via openpgp2ssh from my private gpg key. Unfortunately, although my private gpg key is not password protected, gpg-agent asks me for a password (via a nice X dialog) before I ssh to github. Entering nothing works f