Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 05/25/2012 06:43 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > I gave you an example which was Seahorse - clearly you failed to > read. You did not specify which distro was refusing to give the source for Seahorse. I've found it in the repositories for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. > I have set out quite clear

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:24:32AM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: ...snip.. > > At this point you look skywards and scream, "GET ME OUT OF THIS > METAPHOR! I get it already! A nonconstructive proof doesn't tell us > anything about /what/ or /why/ or /how/, it just says that some

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread reynt0
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 5/24/12 7:56 PM, reynt0 wrote: . . . The idea is just to maximize usability to maximum audience, . . . "Maximum audience" is not the same as "maximum usability." The two are different properties. When it comes to the written word, ease of r

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/05/12 23:01, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:07:54PM +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Openpgp/enigmail does not support gpg2 unless one has installed gpg >> 1.4.11 - but I no longer trust Openpgp/enigmail to do anything. > > T

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/05/12 21:47, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 5/25/12 1:47 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> For example opensuse - all versions tested: > >> (1) When you open the address book in TB select an address right >> mouse click you get an option to create a

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:07:54PM +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > Openpgp/enigmail does not support gpg2 unless one has installed gpg > 1.4.11 - but I no longer trust Openpgp/enigmail to do anything. That's unfortunate. While I'm mostly a Mutt user these days, I have Debian Icedove installed wit

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 5/25/12 1:47 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > For example opensuse - all versions tested: > > (1) When you open the address book in TB select an address right > mouse click you get an option to create a per-recipient rule for > that person. (Openpg

[OT] keyboard mapping (was: Draft of nine new FAQ questions)

2012-05-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:31, mw...@iupui.edu said: > And life is too short to go trawling the Internet for X Compose > sequences. If I could find a comprehensive table I'd probably use Meanwhile I set my keyboard to: | mod3+ | normal | shift | |---++| | P | „ |

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/05/12 14:03, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:55:59PM +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> - From tests carried out - Mandrava Linux was ok. I suspect that other Linux >> distros have no >> real problems - just because your works -

Re: Secret key not available

2012-05-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 25 May 2012 17:25, bd9...@att.com said: > I don't get as much info returned as you guys but that's probably because I > Have an "old" gpg version on my system (1.4.11): That is not very old. 1.4 is fully maintained in addition to 2.x. > gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID 1B8A6A37 > gpg:

Re: Secret key not available

2012-05-25 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 25.05.2012 16:39, DUELL, BOB wrote: > Hi, > > Couple quick questions (and probably a FAQ): > > 1. Attempting to decrypt a file that was sent to me by someone > else, I get this message: > > gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available

Re: encrypt message for very if use a key

2012-05-25 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 24.05.2012 20:09, Jose Juan Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > > Good morning I try to encrypt a file ,similar to the step 3 on this > page: > > http://developer.gooddata.com/docs/sso > > with the next instruction: > > gpg --armor --output enc.txt --

RE: Secret key not available

2012-05-25 Thread DUELL, BOB
Thanks (and Hauke as well). This just confirms my suspicion. I don't get as much info returned as you guys but that's probably because I Have an "old" gpg version on my system (1.4.11): bd9439@dspsas01 $ gpg --list-packets < optout_050912.zip.gpg gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread Nicholas Cole
>> There's a slight confusion in these answers that I think it would be >> really helpful to address in an FAQ. > > Yes, there is.  Unfortunately, the answer is kind of messy. [ snip ] Thank you for a really good and useful answer. I hope some of that can make it into the FAQ. If I understand y

Re: Secret key not available

2012-05-25 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Fr 25.05.2012, 13:39:27 schrieb DUELL, BOB: > Hi, > > Couple quick questions (and probably a FAQ): You need the link to the FAQ? http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/faqs.en.html > 1. Attempting to decrypt a file that was sent to me by someone else, > I get this message: > > gpg: de

Re: Secret key not available

2012-05-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/25/2012 09:39 AM, DUELL, BOB wrote: > 1. Attempting to decrypt a file that was sent to me by someone else, > I get this message: > > gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available > > Could that mean the file was not encrypted with my public key? yes, that is one plausible

Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread vedaal
Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org wrote on Fri May 25 15:24:32 CEST 2012 : > In reality, Dan Boneh is a very nice guy, quite reasonable, and nothing at all like I'm portraying him here. He gives a free online crypto course at Stanford https://www.coursera.org/#course/crypto The cour

Secret key not available

2012-05-25 Thread DUELL, BOB
Hi, Couple quick questions (and probably a FAQ): 1. Attempting to decrypt a file that was sent to me by someone else, I get this message: gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available Could that mean the file was not encrypted with my public key? 2. Assuming the above it "yes

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:44:40AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 02:22, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > > > The final version that gets submitted to Werner will by necessity be > > plain text, and that will probably get downshifted into dumb typewriter > > Keep those quotes. I lik

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 5/25/12 8:35 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Dan Boneh showed breaking RSA without factoring anything was > probably possible, but it was a nonconstructive demonstration -- we have > no idea where to begin. Just realized the phrase "nonconstructive" may need to be explained. The best way to do it

Re: PGP interoperability

2012-05-25 Thread Hubert Kario
On Friday 25 of May 2012 11:22:45 Johan Wevers wrote: > On 25-05-2012 4:20, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > product they offer: > > * Diffie-Hellman > > * DSA (1024-bit keys only) > > * RSA (up to 4096-bit keys) > > Seems they want to push everyone to RSA. I wonder why? The patent issue >

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:27:59PM +0100, michael crane wrote: > >> mwood@mhw ~ $ dir /usr/bin/gpg* Sorry, that's lingering evidence of my VMS habits: mwood@mhw ~ $ alias dir alias dir='ls -l' -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:55:59PM +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > - From tests carried out - Mandrava Linux was ok. I suspect that other Linux > distros have no > real problems - just because your works - does not mean that every other > Linux distro works. However: because it works on my syst

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 5/25/12 6:41 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote: > ***In terms of current scientific understandings, the symmetric > ciphers used in GnuPG are utterly*** > The symmetric ciphers used in GnuPG are utterly immune to > brute forcing. The Second Law of Thermodynamics places strict I'm comfortable with things

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread Nicholas Cole
> ---re #5:  Is RSA-2048 really enough? > > ***start 2nd sentence : And other organizations to whom encryption > is important (such as RSA...***  [The world changes, and maybe > an explicit endorsement might not be so appropriate tomorrow, > but embarassing or similar to change then.  Just mentioni

Re: PGP interoperability

2012-05-25 Thread Johan Wevers
On 25-05-2012 4:20, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Looking over the PGP product offerings after their acquisition by > Symantec, it seems they have dropped support for 2048- and 3072-bit DSA. > This decision makes no sense to me, and is sufficiently weird that I > wonder if the marketing copy is horri

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 24 May 2012 02:22, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > The final version that gets submitted to Werner will by necessity be > plain text, and that will probably get downshifted into dumb typewriter Keep those quotes. I like UTF-8 and it is always easier to replace them by ticks and backticks th

Re: encrypt message for very if use a key

2012-05-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 24 May 2012 19:09, gonzale...@hildebrando.com said: > but when I use this, the gpg send me a message: I can't see that but I guess that you want to use this command line: gpg --armor --output enc.txt --encrypt --recipient secur...@gooddata.com --trust-model always --batch --yes sig

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 24 May 2012 21:27, mick.cr...@gmail.com said: >>> mwood@mhw ~ $ dir /usr/bin/gpg* 10.2 `dir': Briefly list directory contents === `dir' is equivalent to `ls -C -b'; that is, by default files are listed in columns, sorted vertically, and special char