Re: Archaic PGP usage

2015-07-24 Thread vedaal
On 7/23/2015 at 2:58 PM, "A.T. Leibson" wrote: >Do people (other than John Young) still use PGP? Why would someone >want to do that? = The only possible reasons I can think of are: [1] Remailer use, Original remailers used PGP 2.x and even though some use GnuPG, others are reluctant

RE: Gnupg Decryption Question

2015-07-24 Thread Steve Butler
-Original Message- From: Werner Koch [mailto:w...@gnupg.org] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 4:24 AM On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:11, sbut...@fchn.com said: > This is a snippet of the script I use to decrypt any file coming to me that > has my private key (or my companies private key) > > $DFLT

Re: Gnupg Decryption Question

2015-07-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:11, sbut...@fchn.com said: > This is a snippet of the script I use to decrypt any file coming to me that > has my private key (or my companies private key) > > $DFLT gpg_pass2 \ > | gpg --homedir $homedir --quiet --passphrase-fd 0 --no-tty --skip-verify \ > --no-

Re: Archaic PGP usage

2015-07-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:13, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > 1. PGP 2.6 is *small*. The original PGP specification (RFC1991) is a > small fraction of the size of the modern OpenPGP specification > (RFC4880). When it comes to trustworthy code, small is beautiful. FWIW, RFC-1991 is not a complete spe

Re: Gnupg Decryption Question

2015-07-24 Thread Nomen Nescio
David Carter wrote: > We currently use Gnupg 1.4.10 > > This is a sample of how we would call > gpg to encrypt a text file prior to transmission: > > gpg -c -o DataFile.gpg --batch --compress-algo 1 --cipher-algocast5 > --passphrase KeyValue DataFile.txt > > The files that we receive share