Re: Why the "--export-secret-key" switch is not listed in help screen?

2012-05-06 Thread John Clizbe
Mika Suomalainen wrote: > 06.05.2012 21:15, Peter Lebbing kirjoitti: >> It does say in the "gpg --help" output: > >>> (See the man page for a complete listing of all commands and >>> options) > >> There are many more options and also commands in the full man(ual) >> page. I suppose it was thought

importing new uid (offline master key setup)

2012-05-06 Thread Matthew Monaco
On my running system, I keep the public portions of the master key (certify only) and subkey (combined encrypt and sign). I only keep the private portion of the sub key. Recently, I added a UID to the offline copy of my .gnupg directory. Importing the UID into the pubring was simple enough, but I'

Re: Why the "--export-secret-key" switch is not listed in help screen?

2012-05-06 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 06.05.2012 21:15, Peter Lebbing kirjoitti: > It does say in the "gpg --help" output: > >> (See the man page for a complete listing of all commands and >> options) > > There are many more options and also commands in the full man(ual) > page. I suppos

Re: Why the "--export-secret-key" switch is not listed in help screen?

2012-05-06 Thread Peter Lebbing
It does say in the "gpg --help" output: > (See the man page for a complete listing of all commands and options) There are many more options and also commands in the full man(ual) page. I suppose it was thought that exporting a private key was such a relatively "rarely used" command it did not nee

Re: Why the "--export-secret-key" switch is not listed in help screen?

2012-05-06 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 06.05.2012 15:39, Moses kirjoitti: > Hi, > > I've notice the switch "--export-secret-key" is not listed in the > help screen (i.e. gpg --help) and I spend a lot of time to find it. > It seems to be one of the most used switch for backup private keys >

Why the "--export-secret-key" switch is not listed in help screen?

2012-05-06 Thread Moses
Hi, I've notice the switch "--export-secret-key" is not listed in the help screen (i.e. gpg --help) and I spend a lot of time to find it. It seems to be one of the most used switch for backup private keys and sync keys between machines. Could the developer add this switch to the help screen? It wo

Re: SSH Agent keys >4096 bit?

2012-05-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 05/05/2012 10:42 AM, Milo wrote: > Obviously it's not. It's for example inappropriate to call single run > of DES 3DES... At this point I genuinely can't tell if I'm being trolled. I'm going to assume that I am not, and this will be my last statement on this entire thread. Two functions may o

Re: SSH Agent keys >4096 bit?

2012-05-06 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 06/05/12 01:42, Hubert Kario wrote: > But it's the size of prime used that sets the security level, which > just happens to share security evaluation with RSA as far as number > of bits is concerned (IOW: n-bit DH is considered to be as hard to > attack as n-bit RSA). Ah, yes, I misunderstood y