[Announce] GnuPG 2.1.18 released

2017-01-23 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! The GnuPG team is pleased to announce the availability of a new release of GnuPG: Version 2.1.18. See below for a list of new features and bug fixes. About GnuPG = The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard which is commonly a

Getting at a PGPDisk's contents

2017-01-23 Thread Andrew Long
Hi all. Bit of an embarassing question. I used to have PGP Deskto, with whole disk encryption, installed (although my disk wasn’t encrypted). I had created a ‘PGPDisk’ archive (and I still have the underlying file) HOWEVER… As part of the upgrade process to El Capitan, I had to completely uninsta

Re: Test Mail

2017-01-23 Thread Brian Minton
On 01/05/2017 12:35 AM, Roger wrote: > Test mail to mailing list testing GNUPG signing, appearance and hopefully > conforming to mailing list standards. I received your post to the list. I also verified a good signature. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: pyme3 for Windows

2017-01-23 Thread ankostis
On 23 January 2017 at 16:28, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 01:06:38 +0100, ankostis stated: > > >Has anybody managed to compile pyme3 on Windows? > > > >Thanks for all the Hard Work, > > Kostis > > > > I don't know if this is what yo are looking for. > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/pym

Re: pyme3 for Windows

2017-01-23 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 01:06:38 +0100, ankostis stated: >Has anybody managed to compile pyme3 on Windows? > >Thanks for all the Hard Work, > Kostis > I don't know if this is what yo are looking for. https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyme/files/latest/download?source=files -- Jerry __

Re: Changing passphrase parameters (s2k options)

2017-01-23 Thread John Lane
On 23/01/17 12:34, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 23/01/17 12:54, John Lane wrote: >> Ok, so - if I understand you correctly - when I *export* the secret key >> I can choose which algorithms are applied to the exported copy ? > > No, I meant that the bug report (turned feature request) is about > choos

Re: Changing passphrase parameters (s2k options)

2017-01-23 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 23/01/17 12:54, John Lane wrote: > Ok, so - if I understand you correctly - when I *export* the secret key > I can choose which algorithms are applied to the exported copy ? No, I meant that the bug report (turned feature request) is about choosing the options for export. As long as the bug is

Re: Changing passphrase parameters (s2k options)

2017-01-23 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 23/01/17 11:01, John Lane wrote: > I've been reading about symmetric encryption of the private key. > > When I tried to experiment with the `--s2k` options, attempting to > change the passphrase on my key, I found that they were ignored. GnuPG 2.1 handles the private key in a completely differ

Re: Changing passphrase parameters (s2k options)

2017-01-23 Thread John Lane
On 23/01/17 11:22, Peter Lebbing wrote: > It's close to what you're talking about, but not exactly. That is > specifically about *exporting* an OpenPGP secret key, not how it is > *stored* in your keyring. The protection on private-keys-v1.d is > implemented differently than the protection of the

Changing passphrase parameters (s2k options)

2017-01-23 Thread John Lane
I've been reading about symmetric encryption of the private key. When I tried to experiment with the `--s2k` options, attempting to change the passphrase on my key, I found that they were ignored. A brief search identified issue 1800 [1] on the bug tracker which was last updated in 2015, some 20 m