Removing old preferences from exported key

2014-04-06 Thread Johan Wevers
Hallo, I changed the preferences for my gpg key to add the new Camelia ciphers and move IDEA more backward as I got problems with people with old pgp keys using old gnupg versions claiming they supported it but actually didn't support it. However, when I export the key it now contains both prefer

Re: Using an RSA GnuPG key for RSA ?

2014-04-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/02/2014 01:55 PM, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > Is it possible to generate an RSA key in GnuPG, and then use it (not in > GnuPG, but in other systems using RSA keys), to encrypt and decrypt RSA > messages? i think you might be interested in openpgp2pem from the monkeysphere package. > If s

Re: Encrypted file-size approximation with multiple recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/02/2014 01:07 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > 1) I'd missed that GPG conveniently compresses the data before > encrypting which would explain some of the differences I saw. [...] > in more than half of my use cases (small plain-text/JSON messages) It sounds to me like you might be setting up some

Re: Using an RSA GnuPG key for RSA ?

2014-04-06 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 06/04/14 16:29, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > [5] Examine it in PGPdump, and extract the RSA components On Debian, there is the pgpdump package which, I just tested, outputs the private key components in hex (or hex escaped string with -g). Also, when I did apt-cache search pgpdump, I noticed

Re: Using an RSA GnuPG key for RSA ?

2014-04-06 Thread vedaal
On 04/06/2014 at 3:50 PM, "Peter Lebbing" wrote: > >On 06/04/14 16:29, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: >> [5] Examine it in PGPdump, and extract the RSA components > >On Debian, there is the pgpdump package which, I just tested, >outputs the >private key components in hex (or hex escaped string wit

Re: Using an RSA GnuPG key for RSA ?

2014-04-06 Thread vedaal
On 04/04/2014 at 4:05 PM, "Leo Gaspard" wrote: >Well... As this seems not documented (otherwise I guess someone else would have >answered you), I'm going to assume there is no such function available in >gnupg. = I think it should be quite doable, by those fluent in rfc 2440, 4880, but I