Re: charset weirdness with non-ascii User IDs

2013-07-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2012-07-24 13:41:20 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > i'm seeing some strange behavior with the keyservers on GNU/Linux > systems that don't have a UTF-8 locale, or when LANG is set to something > non-UTF8: > > 0 dkg@pip:~$ LANG=C gpg --keyserver keys.mayfirst.org --search '=Andrew Lee >

Re: not recognizing my passphrase after moving from XP to Win7

2013-07-11 Thread eMyListsDDg
Hello Henry & Johan, appreciate your advice. and a lot of information you took the time to write. i think i mentioned i found the error, more or less my own eyes and the size of the text in my pw database. one char off resembling another. i doubt i would have found that error if not for your h

Re: not recognizing my passphrase after moving from XP to Win7

2013-07-11 Thread Johan Wevers
On 11-07-2013 18:14, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: >> from:C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\gnupg >> to: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\ > That is the correct folder. I have no idea on what Windows > 7 does with the Documents and Settings folder That directory doesn't exists in

Re: not recognizing my passphrase after moving from XP to Win7

2013-07-11 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 07/08/2013 03:42 AM, eMyListsDDg wrote: > Hello Henry, > i copied the 32-bit XP gnupg dir contents to this dir on Win 7-64bit > > from:C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\gnupg > > to: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\ > That is the correct folder. I have no idea on what Wi

Re: not recognizing my passphrase after moving from XP to Win7

2013-07-11 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 11/07/13 16:23, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > I imagine it would if I used the keys on Windows > for either signing or enciphering it may have created the random_seed > file but since I but I don't use them that way but only for verifying > detached signature files for what ever reason they never

Re: not recognizing my passphrase after moving from XP to Win7

2013-07-11 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 07/08/2013 09:22 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 07/07/13 21:53, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: >> I did the same there but I do modify the random_seed file with hexedit for >> each key-ring which some people object to. From my point of view that is far >> better than just having each key-ring having

Re: Do we need / want (or already have) a mascot for OpenPGP?

2013-07-11 Thread Burkhard Schroeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08-Jul-13 6:34 AM, Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh wrote: > How about a lemur? They have masked varieties (and they are cute). > Raccoon also comes to mind... But they are not associated with security. And security is not "cute". What about Erinaceidae ? T

Re: Win 7 64bit - 0 chance GnuPG / (Thunderbird-plugin)enigmail zu installieren ??

2013-07-11 Thread Burkhard Schroeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06-Jul-13 11:23 AM, W.Rog. wrote: > I have installed Win7-64bit and Thunderbird. Have I no chance to > install GnuPG / enigmail-plugin in Thunderbird? Sorry, I#m a > newbie. kindly regards Enigmail is only a frontend which is able to handle the