Re: Random Seed for Generating PGP Keys

2015-05-24 Thread kendrick eastes
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 10:35 AM, George Lee wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in seeing if rather than relying on the built-in software > to generate randomness when creating a PGP key, if it is possible to > configure GnuPG to use a manually entered random seed. That way I could > generate a s

Random Seed for Generating PGP Keys

2015-05-24 Thread George Lee
Hello, I'm interested in seeing if rather than relying on the built-in software to generate randomness when creating a PGP key, if it is possible to configure GnuPG to use a manually entered random seed. That way I could generate a seed using coins, dice, my magic cauldron, etc. Is this possible

Re: Trying to install version 2.1.4

2015-05-24 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 24/05/15 18:14, Antony Prince wrote: > My first reply was off-list. I apologize. In my case, I just left the > system default gpg installed. Ubuntu comes with gpg 1.4.x and gives the > same warnings when trying to uninstall because it is a dependency of apt. > [...] > After reading the other r

Re: Trying to install version 2.1.4

2015-05-24 Thread Antony Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/24/2015 01:28 AM, Rex Kneisley wrote: > Hello all, > > I have just done a clean install of Debian 8.0 on an i7-4790K with > 16 GB RAM. I am trying to install GNUPG 2.1.4 (I have this thing > about wanting the latest version… call me crazy)

Re: Trying to install version 2.1.4

2015-05-24 Thread guido
On 23/05/2015, Rex Kneisley wrote: > Hello all, Hi, > I have just done a clean install of Debian 8.0 on an i7-4790K with 16 GB RAM. > I am trying to install GNUPG 2.1.4 > (I have this thing about wanting the latest version… call me crazy) > > I have done this before in Debian Wheezy. I install

Re: Trying to install version 2.1.4

2015-05-24 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 24/05/15 07:28, Rex Kneisley wrote: > It appears that when I go through the motions of installing 2.1.4, it > leaves things untouched. It would be very helpful if you could share the actual commands you entered and their output. This is just an interpretation of what happened, and makes it impo