Re: restoring SmartCard key with off-card copy

2011-10-06 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 05-10-2011 6:21, Peter Lebbing escribió: > On 05/10/11 08:15, Faramir wrote: >> Would Paperkey be useful to do that? I guess no, since it >> encodes the private key somehow... but maybe tweaking it? > > IMHO, if you want to have a backup that als

Re: How to use terminal to change mac-cache-ttl

2011-10-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 10/5/11 7:55 PM, Vortran66 wrote: > I have a very limited knowledge of using terminal in Mac. Can someone tell > me what commands I would need to enter to do this. Although I think that using Terminal.app is fun, natural and sensible, it's possible that I'm psychotic. If you *want* to learn

Re: restoring SmartCard key with off-card copy

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Lebbing
> I succeeded to write back this encryption key to the card. But PGP is > writing the same key to two positions in the card. So now I have a > Card with the same key in "encryption" and "signature". A bit odd. I hope it will not give problems. My suggestion: let the card generate a new signature k

Re: restoring SmartCard key with off-card copy

2011-10-06 Thread Achim Cloer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, dear Peter, > Restore the given file to a card. This command may be used to > restore a backup key (as generated during card initialization) to a > new card. In almost all cases this will be the encryption key. You > should use this command

card error message in .gpg-agent.log

2011-10-06 Thread Seb
Hi, The following error messages are very common in my /tmp/.gpg-agent.log (Debian sid system): ------ 2011-10-05 17:15:25 gpg-agent[2694] gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.0.18 started 2011-10-05 17:21:36 gpg-agent[2694] error getting defaul

How to use terminal to change mac-cache-ttl

2011-10-06 Thread Vortran66
I am using GnuPG with Mac OSX I need to reset password caching to a lower setting than the default. I was told that caching in gpg-agent is responsible for this and that I need to configure its cache entry TTL values. I was told to look for cache settings in gpg-agent.conf (to be created in your