Re: Subject: cannot build database in GPA in ubuntu and won't generate GPG key.

2015-01-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2015-01-15 05:42:20 -0500, georgeorwellhardwi...@riseup.net wrote: > Every time I use GPA in ubuntu it says, when I start GPA: "GnuPG is > rebuilding the trust database. > This might take a few seconds." And I can wait for hours, while nothing > happens. I'm not seeing this with debian u

Re: Problems when encrypting to a group on MacGPG

2015-01-15 Thread Anthony Papillion
On 01/14/2015 10:53 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 1/14/15 7:09 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: >> "gpg: O g: can't encode a 256 bit key in a 0 bit frame" >> >> This happens after I tell the program to accept the final key in the >> group as valid. But it doesn't seem to be related to a key since

Re: Specifying passphrase for batch key generation

2015-01-15 Thread Patrick Brunschwig
On 15.01.15 09:56, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:59, jose.casti...@gmail.com said: > >> Now that we cannot specify a passphrase in the batch parameters, what >> is the preferred method for batch key generation with a specified >> passphrase? > > Thanks for this question. The Enigma

gpgsm: certificate is not usable for signing

2015-01-15 Thread Jan Eden
Hi, I recently installed GnuPG 2.1 and successfully used gpgsm for about a week. This morning, signing messages with mutt failed, and the signature of received messages cannot be verified. Signing a test file reveals: lbox:~ jan$ gpgsm --verbose --sign testfile.txt gpgsm: certificate is not usabl

Re: gpgsm: certificate is not usable for signing

2015-01-15 Thread Jan Eden
Hi, the problem might be related to issue 1644 (http://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1644), my cert is part of the DFN-PKI. - Jan On 2015-01-15 10:23, Jan Eden wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed GnuPG 2.1 and successfully used gpgsm for about a > week. This morning, signing messages with mutt

Subject: cannot build database in GPA in ubuntu and won't generate GPG key.

2015-01-15 Thread georgeorwellhardwired
Hey. Every time I use GPA in ubuntu it says, when I start GPA: "GnuPG is rebuilding the trust database. This might take a few seconds." And I can wait for hours, while nothing happens. And If I try to close the window and try to generate a GPG key, it will say: "The GPGME library returned a

Re: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 136, Issue 23

2015-01-15 Thread georgeorwellhardwired
Subject: cannot build database in GPA in ubuntu and won't generate GPG key. Hey. Every time I use GPA in ubuntu it says, when I start GPA: "GnuPG is rebuilding the trust database. This might take a few seconds." And I can wait for hours, while nothing happens. And If I try to close the wind

Re: Specifying passphrase for batch key generation

2015-01-15 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:59, jose.casti...@gmail.com said: > Now that we cannot specify a passphrase in the batch parameters, what > is the preferred method for batch key generation with a specified > passphrase? Thanks for this question. The Enigmail folks also asked on how to do this and my answ