Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-02-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 02/22/2013 01:24 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: > Have any consumer banks in the US figured out how to use PGP, so > monthly statements can be truly *delivered*? OpenPGP, no, because there's no business case for them to do so. OpenPGP users represent a phenomenally small fraction of th

[Announce] Libassuan 2.1.0 released

2013-02-22 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! I am pleased to announce version 2.1.0 of Libassuan. Libassuan is the IPC library used by GnuPG 2, GPGME, and a few other packages. This release adds support for the nPth thread library as used by the current development version of GnuPG. It also fixes some minor bugs and enables feature

Re: Piping tar into gpg

2013-02-22 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:29:08PM +0100, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: > "find /mnt/raid/Dokumente/ -type f -print0 |tar cfzv | gpg --symmetric > --output 1.tar.gz.gpg" aks for a password but aborts after creating a 4,0K > large binary file. I have had other cases in which tar and gpg were > obvi

Re: Is it possible to use keys that aren't on the keyring?

2013-02-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:43, jtrei...@gmail.com said: > user's keychain, however, I was wondering if it is possible to perform > crypto operations using keys that are not on the keyring. For example, No. GPG needs to know the keys, for example to compute the web of trust. Eventually we will add

US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-02-22 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Have any consumer banks in the US figured out how to use PGP, so monthly statements can be trully *delivered*? (as opposed to getting a plaintext message troubling clients to login via some GUI and point-click-point-click-point-click) ___ Gnupg-users m

Re: Is it possible to use keys that aren't on the keyring?

2013-02-22 Thread Peter Lebbing
I don't know if it is supported by GPGME, but here's an alternative I just thought of: Store the public keyring on a RAM filesystem. Sketch of operation (not fully tested, and please understand what you're doing, don't just copy-paste): mkdir ~/gnupg-ramfs sudo mount gnupg-ramfs ~/gnupg-ramfs -t

Is it possible to use keys that aren't on the keyring?

2013-02-22 Thread Jim Treinen
Hello, I have a question about retrieving keys for use with GPGME. I understand that GPG is primarily built to function using keys on the user's keychain, however, I was wondering if it is possible to perform crypto operations using keys that are not on the keyring. For example, rather than encr

Re: Reliably determining that the agent is available and starting it if not

2013-02-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:21, cr...@2ndquadrant.com said: > I expected it to be simple to make sure that the a GPG agent (either the > "gpg-agent" program or something like Gnome's built-in agent) were Oh please don't use the latter, that is the cuase for a many problems. You may use gpg-connect-ag