Re: Organizing a GPG key signing party in London

2014-02-18 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 12 February 2014 11:40, Ludovic Hirlimann wrote: > I'm organizing a pgp key signing party in London on March the 25th at > 6:30 PM BST in the mozilla space of the mozilla office in London. > British Summer Time does not begin until Sunday 30th March this year(1). Do you mean Greenwich Mean T

Re: Install Gnupg-2.0.19 errors

2012-10-06 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 6 October 2012 01:18, zjf_sy wrote: > *../../g10/gpg2: error while loading shared libraries: libassuan.so.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory .* > [...] > *libassuan.so: /usr/local/lib/libassuan.so /usr/local/lib/libassuan.so.0* > You need to tell the OS where to f

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-28 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 22 May 2012 09:58, wrote: > I think it should be okay to dredge up this topic ever couple years. From > what I am reading, links below, I do not feel comfortable with the key > length and algorithmic security offered by GPG's defaults. > Use this patch to increase the maximum keysize in gpg

Re: How to use terminal to change mac-cache-ttl

2011-10-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
p://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/listinfo/gpgtools-users Benjamin Donnachie ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: plateform supported ?

2011-02-28 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 28 Feb 2011, at 17:29, florent ainardi wrote: i have a simple question May I suggest that you consolidate all your queries into a single email? Ben Sent from my iPhone ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mail

MacGPG2 v2.0.17-9 released!

2011-02-14 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
MacGPG2 v2.0.17-9 is available from https://github.com/downloads/GPGTools/MacGPG2/MacGPG2-2.0.17-9.zip Please use the detached signature to confirm the integrity of your download prior to install. Public key needed available from http://www.gpgtools.org/ Unzip the archive and then run the MacGPG

Re: MacGPG2 v2.0.17 released!

2011-01-25 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 25 Jan 2011, at 08:55, Werner Koch wrote: >> * Maximum key size increased to 8192 bits; recommended for expert users only > > I do not think this is a good idea. I personally agree with you and it was only implemented due to user demand. I'll look at a better way of implementing this request.

MacGPG2 v2.0.17 released!

2011-01-24 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MacGPG2, a build of GnuPG2 for MacOSX with a native pinentry program, has been updated to GnuPG v2.0.17. Download available from https://github.com/downloads/GPGTools/MacGPG2/MacGPG2-2.0.17.6.zip and detached signature at https://github.com/downloads/

Re: MacGPG2 v2.0.17 released!

2011-01-24 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 24 January 2011 23:03, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > What's New > bit Intel Macs running OS X Leopard (10.5) and higher. Cut and paste failed me. It should have read: What's New = * Supports 32- and 64-bit Intel Macs running OS X Leopard (

Re: Gpg for iPhone or iPad

2011-01-23 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 23 Jan 2011, at 11:50, Michael Dansie wrote: > Do you know if there is an > application that can use gpg on the iOS platform either as an app or > as a jail broken feature? There's oPenPG Lite available from the App Store but it doesn't work with my private key! YMMV of course! Ben

Re: What is the benefit of signing an encrypted email

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 11 January 2011 10:04, jimbob palmer wrote: > In what case would I want my encrypted emails also signed? Does it > provide any additional benefit over a pure encrypted email? Encrypted means only the recipient can read it. Signed means that, if they verified the key properly, the message came

Re: Passwords are unwillingly being saved throughout session

2010-12-01 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 30 November 2010 22:56, Holger Näther wrote: > I hope one of you might have experienced something like this before and can > give me a short hint as to where to look. It is how gpg2 (and hence MacGPG2) is designed to work. To achieve that you want, add the following to the file ~/.gnupg/gpg-

Re: [OSX] application bundle for pinentry-qt4 0.80

2010-11-06 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 6 Nov 2010, at 10:55, dev.ad...@ntlworld.com wrote: > I'm trying to build a mac application bundle for pinentry The short answer is use my pre-built native MacOSX pinentry program. I never had any great success with the QT version under MacOSX and my native pinentry avoids the QT library bloa

Re: compile errors

2010-11-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 2 Nov 2010, at 17:16, Derick Centeno wrote: $ whereis libassuan libassuan: /usr/local/lib/libassuan.la /usr/local/lib/libassuan.so /usr/local/lib/libassuan.a $ man libassuan Which OS and distro are you using? You may need to add /usr/local/lib to your config; is libassuan listed if you run

Re: GnuPG skips the passphrase when creating a keypair

2010-10-20 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 20 Oct 2010, at 19:09, Raditya Arthapraja wrote: > I'm using MacGPG2 version 2.0.14RC2 with MacOS X 10.6.4 - Snow Leopard as the > OS. > > When trying to generate a keypair, MacGPG skips the step to input the > paraphrase and continues to create the key. Although counter-intuitive, many Mac

Re: FYI: About my test mails

2010-06-15 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 14 Jun 2010, at 08:18, Werner Koch wrote: >> Did alava...@gmail.com ever get removed? > I can see no evidence that this address is abusing this ML. It was also forwarding to the MP Customer ticket system but now seems resolved. Ben ___ Gnupg-users

Re: FYI: About my test mails

2010-06-11 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 11 June 2010 12:42, Werner Koch wrote: > The culprit was supp...@resell.biz - I unsubscribed this address and > banned it from further subscriptions. Did alava...@gmail.com ever get removed? See http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2010-May/038724.html Ben __

Re: upgrading from 1.4.7 to 2.0.14

2010-05-28 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 28 May 2010 12:18, Matthew Mark Drew wrote: >  I would like to know where one can get gpg 2.0.14 complied for windows? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gpg2+windows+download&l=1 ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/l

Re: [#24488576] transaction already being edited in another register

2010-05-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 10 May 2010, at 01:27, "supp...@midphase.com" wrote: Please remove supp...@midphase or any other @midphase address from your mailing list, thank you. Appears alava...@gmail.com has been set to redirect. Use the list homepage to unsubscribe: http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-use

Re: transaction already being edited in another register

2010-05-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 9 May 2010, at 17:21, "C. Andrews Lavarre" wrote: > But it definitely is a PITA if you have a lot of common transactions > to > fill out... :-( How does this relate to GnuPG? Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnup

Re: gpg-agent problems under MacOSX - libassuan v2.0.0 related?

2010-03-21 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 20 March 2010 16:58, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > Continued testing has shown that this behaviour is only exhibited when > using standard sockets.  When not using them I have, so far, been > unable to replicate this problem. Ticket created - https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue

Re: gpg-agent problems under MacOSX - libassuan v2.0.0 related?

2010-03-20 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 19 March 2010 09:49, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > I am having problems with unpatched gpg-agent under Snow Leopard with > gnupg v2.0.15: > gpg-agent[9482]: can't connect my own socket: Invalid value passed to IPC > gpg-agent[9482]: this process is useless - shutting down Cont

gpg-agent problems under MacOSX - libassuan v2.0.0 related?

2010-03-19 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
I am having problems with unpatched gpg-agent under Snow Leopard with gnupg v2.0.15: ./gpg-agent --daemon --verbose --use-standard-socket --no-detach gpg-agent[9481]: listening on socket `/Users/benjamin/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent' gpg-agent[9481]: listening on socket `/Users/benjamin/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.s

Re: Restarting gpg-agent

2010-03-15 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 15 March 2010 16:54, Werner Koch wrote: > For years gpg-agent is able to test whether it is already > running, just call gpg-agent and don't pass the --daemon option: This is what I use the fall back as part of MacGPG2: (* start-gpg-agent Part of the MacGPG2 project - http://macgpg2.source

Re: OpenPGP card not available- Card error

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/15 taurus : > Change to a new macbook pro and my card reader is not recognized by gpg2. > In the old notebook is fine. OS is the same in both; Mac OSX 10.5.8 Are you using MacGPG2, http://macgpg2.sourceforge.net/ ? Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing li

Re: Multiple Instances of gpg-agent

2010-01-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/9 Ludwig Hügelschäfer : > Second, have a look into your Start Objects (which are opened at login). > Are there multiple entries for "start-gpg-agent"? Remove all but one. start-gpg-agent will not start another copy if it can communicate with an already running instance of gpg-agent. Upgrad

Re: Multiple Instances of gpg-agent

2010-01-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/5 Jason French : > I'm on OS X 10.5.8 running Thunderbird 3.0 with Enigmail 1.0. Thanks > in advance. I recommend upgrading to MacGPG2 v2.0.14-RC2 - see http://macgpg2.sourceforge.net/ Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http:

Re: very short plaintexts symmetrically encrypted

2010-01-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/8 : > At any rate, it seems disturbingly easy to distinguish between > symmetrically encrypted messages having only the word 'yes' or 'no' > just by 'looking' at the ciphertext. i. Don't send such short messages ii. Don't use symmetric encryption. Ben

Re: Newbie question: Where do I put my trusted key?

2009-10-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/31 Charly Avital : > Please check the MacGPG2 Project at: > > The current installer for MacGPG2 2.0.12 is available. It will install a > Mac native pinentry application. An updated version for v2.0.13 will be available in a few days (work and brok

Re: which version is install

2009-09-18 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/18 FOAD FOAD : > I want to know which version of gpg is install on my openbsd, could you tell > me how to do ? Try: gpg --version gpg2 --version Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnup

Re: GnuPG 2.0.12 on AIX 5.3 TL 03

2009-09-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/3 Bob Wyatt : > What am I missing? Any advice? Please don't keep starting new threads - just post a reply to your existing message. What options did you use to compile pth? Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnu

Re: GnuPG-1.4.9 Install on AIX 5.3 Maintenance (Technology) Level 3

2009-09-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/2 Bob Wyatt : > After doing a CFLAGS=”-g -02 –mcpu=powerpc” ./configure, the following is > reported: I think you mentioned that pthreads was installed under /usr/local/ try: ./configure --with-pth-prefix=/usr/local/ For further options, take a look at ./configure --help Ben __

Re: 1.4.10rc1 vs. OS X 10.6

2009-09-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/2 Robert J. Hansen : > Can we get an #ifdef for Darwin to replace the ASM blocks with compiled > code? I tested it as part of my Universal Binary build, and the ASM blocks make little difference with fast processors. Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing

Re: Complile problem on Unixware 7.1.4 gpg-1.4.9

2009-08-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/8/7 : > Many thanks for. With you suggestion, I was able to compile successfully and > have been able to exchange encrypted files successfully between my Unixware > server and a windows machine. Great news! Glad to have helped! :) Take care, Ben __

Re: Complile problem on Unixware 7.1.4 gpg-1.4.9

2009-08-06 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/8/6 : > Can anyone help I've seen a similar problem on the Mac when it tries to use the wrong assembly mpi modules. Try adding --disable-asm to your ./configure options before running make. For good measure, run make clean first, ie: make clean ./configure --disable-asm make all Ben ___

Re: OpenPGP Smartcard and MacOS

2009-07-20 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/7/20 Alexander Bertram : > I would like to use my OpenPGP Smartcard with MacOS. Take a look at MacGPG2 - http://macgpg2.sourceforge.net Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: gnupg as ssh-agent

2009-07-10 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/7/10 Ingo Krabbe : > I now tried to use the gpg-agent as a ssh-agent too, as I always started both > agents anyway.  Now I wonder if I could also use my GnuPG Key as a key for a > ssh session too, which would be quite convenient. man gpg-agent: [...] --enable-ssh-support Enable emulati

MacGPG2 v2.0.12 released!

2009-06-21 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
MacGPG2 v2.0.12 is now available to download from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=248469&package_id=303406 This release upgrades the core to GnuPG v2.0.12. Universal binary tested under MacOS Tiger and Leopard complete with Mac pinentry program. Please use the accompanying

Re: GPG4WIN and GnuPG smartcard, Claws

2009-06-13 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/6/13 : > Not sure if I saw any recommendations and so a second request herewith for > _friendly_, _helpful_ user lists or forum on Claws mail client for Windows > XP I suggest trying a Claws related mailing list. This list is for gnupg discussions and hence the lack of replies. Ben __

Re: Security Concern - Open Source Binaries

2009-06-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/6/7 simplejack : > Is sourceforge (or any of the other repositories for open source software) > actually doing a compile and compare of uploaded source code to ensure that > uploaded binaries are legitimate? Nope, but they're not checking the code either. Ben ___

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/5/31 Roger : > If you only use Signatures/Encryption once a month, that's a lot of > passphrase entering & caching! The gnupg v2 is the wrong tool for you. Take a look at gnupg v1.4.x. Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http:/

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/5/31 Roger : > I know this sounds ridiculous, but when you consider a console/terminal > to be as good look'n as a girl, and then you're made to a X window and > forced to type in it, it just feels ridiculous.  Think most folks whom > praise the console Gods, feel the same way. Enable passphr

Re: Avoid pinentry-gtk-2 when using console!

2009-05-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/5/31 Roger : > From searching on the web, there's quite a few others griping about this > same issue. I do wish people would stop complaining about open source software and actually roll their sleeves up and do something to help. One solution, create a symbolic link in your home directory to

Fwd: MacGPG2 v2.0.11 released!

2009-04-04 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
-- Forwarded message -- From: Benjamin Donnachie Date: 2009/3/29 Subject: MacGPG2 v2.0.11 released! To: macgpg2-us...@lists.sourceforge.net MacGPG2 v2.0.11 is now available from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=248469&package_id=303406&release_i

Re: paperkey // ? feature request

2009-02-11 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
This thread reminded me of the attached... Ben <>___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/2/8 Ingo Klöcker : > But it's gone if your home and your work place explode at the same time. I think my key would be the last of my worries in such circumstances. Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailm

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/2/8 Ian Hill : > Correct you print it out, but I cannot find how to re-compile the key > manually from the paperkey and the public key. If you can do this > without the paperkey programme this seems a good solution, otherwise why > not keep an e-copy of your secret key as this is likely to su

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/2/8 Faramir : > Right, I sent myself a copy of paperkey, to my e-mail account at gmail > and yahoo... one of them should survive... and if the program can't run > on the operating systems available at the time when it is needed, I > suppose there will still be virtual machines or emulators ca

Re: openPGP card, cant change admin pin, can't change name

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/2/8 Malte Gell : > does still now work, what is wrong there, why don't I have the permission to > change the admin pin? It's all covered in the list archives and in the manpages: SCDAEMON: --allow-admin --deny-admin This enables the use of Admin class commands fo

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 5

2009-01-28 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/1/28 Peter Thomas : > Now this is surely gnupg specific again ;-) Please please please stop starting new threads! It makes it much easier for me to ignore if you keep to just the one. Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://

Re: Series of minor questions about OpenPGP 4

2009-01-27 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/1/27 David Shaw : > I think at this point you should take the discussion to the ietf-openpgp > list. This is really the GnuPG users lists, and the questions are in-depth > design questions for the protocol itself. Or at least keep it all in the same thread so it's easier for me to delete...

Re: Dan Brown - Digital Fortress book

2009-01-14 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/1/14 Andre Amorim : > I'm in the midle of this book rigth now, so let me try to finish it LOL... > by the way... is there any other book, for a guy like me that find > pleasant read about neuromancer, crypto, computers and fiction ... I really enjoyed Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash by Neal Step

Fwd: MacGPG2 v2.0.10RC1 for Intel Macs released!

2009-01-10 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
-- Forwarded message -- MacGPG2 for GnuPG v2.0.10rc1 is now available for download from sourceforge - https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=248469&package_id=303406&release_id=652661 This download will work under Tiger and Leopard but only on Intel-based Macs. P

Re: Paperkey on windows

2009-01-10 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/1/10 Charly Avital : > A couple of days ago, I compiled the source code (with the flags > indicated in your paperkey homepage), for a MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo > running MacOSX 10.5.6 (code named Leopard). I passed on the compiling > information to other Mac Users. > > I used the flags you indi

MacGPG2 news.

2008-12-24 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
a separate home and hence the separate group. Benjamin Donnachie MacGPG2 Project ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Need help

2008-09-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2008/9/9 David Koppenhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Depends on which software you're talking about. To find out which > version of gnupg is installed in your path, you can type > gpg --version at a terminal/command prompt. > ... and/or gpg2 --version Ben __

Re: MAC Installer for GNUPG?

2008-08-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Robert J. Hansen wrote: http://macgpg.sourceforge.net. The version there is a little out of date, but it's still the easiest to install package. You can get the latest MacOSX builds from my website: http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/gpg1.4.9-1.zip http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~

Re: mac-gpg2 v2.0.9 beta available.

2008-06-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Donnachie wrote: | There's currently a beta package for gpg v2.0.9 on the Mac available at Slight bug fix whereby ~/.MacOSX/ was not created if missing: http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.9-TESTB-

mac-gpg2 v2.0.9 beta available.

2008-06-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's currently a beta package for gpg v2.0.9 on the Mac available at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.9-TESTB-1.zip Signature at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.9-TESTB-1.zip.asc

Updated copy of pinentry-mac available.

2008-05-12 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new copy of the native MacOSX pinentry program for gpg[2] is now available from: http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/pinentry-mac.0.02-1.zip With the accompanying signature at: http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/

Re: Graphical problem with pinentry - was: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.9 released

2008-03-26 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Werner Koch wrote: Not really. It is just that the text displayed is now longer. I don't know the Mac pinentry and whether it auto-adjusts its size as the GTK pinentries do. The native Windows pinentery for example does not resize and thus the displayed text gets truncated. That's exactly th

Re: Graphical problem with pinentry - was: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.9 released

2008-03-26 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: It is only a graphical thing, the functioning of gpg-agent itself has not been affected. Could you please send me a screen capture off list? Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/l

Re: Help with version gpg-agent on Mac-Tiger

2008-03-22 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Steve Revilak wrote: The macports gpg2 package only includes pinentry-ncurses. For me, I'd assume that means the passphrase prompt _has_ to come from a terminal. Since I use a curses-based MUA, that's fine. But I don't know how well it would work for a Carbon app like Thunderbird. I have a ve

Re: using pgp for web-based social networking

2007-12-20 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Adrian Thurston wrote: > I have defined a protocol and described it here: > > http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~thurston/fif/ > I get 404: file not found. Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-us

Mac GNU Privacy Guard v1.4.8

2007-12-20 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
The latest binary install package for GnuPG v1.4.8 for MacOSX is now available to download from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/macgpg/GnuPG1.4.8.dmg?download MD5 checksum: db046fd96e274dfe3c7021047561fb5a Intended for MacOSX v10.4.x or greater. Universal binary so will install on both Intel

Re: Are there new Builds for OS/X ?

2007-12-13 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
David Shaw wrote: >> Was wondering if I am current and if there is anything new for the mac? >> >> gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7 >> Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> > > Yes, you are current. Version 1.4.8 will be coming out soon. > When 1.4.8 is officially released, rather than jus

Re: pinentry-mac never displays any UI [seems to be solved]

2007-10-19 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Richard Bronosky wrote: > By God, he's right! it was no-grab that was doing it. Fantastic stuff! I'm a bit pushed for time at the moment, but hope to release a new version with the latest copy of gpg2 and pinentry soon. Take care, Ben ___ Gnupg-user

Re: Question about Replying to List

2007-10-18 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > Take a look at the Thunderbird reply to list extension - > http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension > If you don't want to use Thunderbird v3, take a look at the ReplyToList extension at http://cweiske.de/misc_exten

Re: Question about Replying to List

2007-10-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Robert D. wrote: > I'm on a MacBook and using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.6 (20070728) > Take a look at the Thunderbird reply to list extension - http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gn

Re: pinentry-mac never displays any UI

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > Are you using the version of pinentry that is currently bundled with > mac-gpg2? If not, try downloading from > http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.4-2.zip > and let me know how it goes. Did i

Re: pinentry-mac never displays any UI

2007-10-04 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Richard Bronosky wrote: > I got a lead on how to use pinentry, and now have an error message to report: > echo GETPIN|/Applications/pinentry-mac.app/Contents/MacOS/pinentry-mac > OK Your orders please > 2007-10-01 14:21:54.669 pinentry-mac[6312] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): > Object 0x31eaf0 of clas

Re: Smart card: pcsctest fails

2007-06-22 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: > But pcsctest ends with: > Testing SCardConnect : Sharing violation. I think the scdaemon (part of gpg-agent) opens the card with exclusive access. If you want to run pcsctest, kill gpg-agent and then restart it after. Take care, Ben __

New version of mac-gpg2 (was Re: Failing to compile in MacOS X [Announce] Libgcrypt 1.3.0 (development) released)

2007-06-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: > I guess I'll have to wait for 1.4. I've just prepared a new version of gpg v2.0.4 for the Mac which uses libgcrypt v.1.3.0 It can be found at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.4-2.zip with detached signature at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benja

Re: New version of mac-gpg2

2007-06-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > As previous mac-gpg2 releases, this release is intended for power users > only. Universal binary, MacOSX Tiger 10.4.9 and above. Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/li

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Remco Post wrote: > Does gnupg support elliptic curve crypto? ;-) Not yet... Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Failing to compile in MacOS X [Announce] Libgcrypt 1.3.0 (development) released

2007-06-16 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: >> We are pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt 1.3.0. This >> is the first release of a series of development versions ebentually >> leading to a new stable 1.4 series. > Configured for: Darwin (i386-apple-darwin8.9.1),MacOS X 10.4.9 No problems here with Darwin

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-16 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Andrew Berg wrote: > Anyone who's worried about an entity with the power needed to break > their messages in time to make any use of it has probably already been > using a longer key size for a while now. Or, more likely for someone that paranoid, a one time pad. Ben

Re: Re-establish keys

2007-05-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My public key is on the MIT PGP server.I know my passphrase. So > how do I reestablish my keys on the newly reformatted hard drive, in > order to decrypt my files? Without the secret key, you can't I'm afraid. Ben ___ G

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-18 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
David Shaw wrote: > For paper to last 100 years is not even vaguely impressive. Paper > regularly lasts many hundreds of years even under less than optimal > conditions. All seems rather academic to me as I would expect the current encryption algorithms to be rendered useless by then. Ben _

Re: Gnupg cannot handle extremely large keys on 32 bit Linux

2007-04-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > At the moment... I'm sorely tempted to tell them to poke it where the > sun doesn't shine at the moment... :-/ Apologies for any confusion - just to clarify, it's my work that can stick it not you guys! :-) Ben

Re: Gnupg cannot handle extremely large keys on 32 bit Linux

2007-04-16 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: > I installed 2.0.3 using a binary installer prepared by Ben Donnachie, > because I didn't succeed to compile the code. It's statically linked to libgcrypt-1.2.4 > I'm waiting for some feedback from Ben. He watches this list, but he > also has a day job, so I'll have to wait.

Re:

2007-04-04 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: > On MacOS X, GnuPG's executable path is /Users/[short-name]/.gnupg. That's where gnupg stores its config files. The executables normally live in /usr/local/bin Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.g

Re: 1.4.7 packages for OS X

2007-03-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > I don't see any real difference between the two, really. If it's not > legal to distribute the single binary with IDEA, then it's not legal to > distribute the module. And going the module way, you wind up getting a > large number of support requests saying "I downloaded

Re: 1.4.7 packages for OS X

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > The original links still work; they point to non-IDEA-enabled builds. > For completeness' sake, the links are all listed here: IDEA is generally best implemented as a module. That way you don't need to worry about any patent / copyright issues. GnuPG 1.4.7 universal bi

Re: [Macgpg-users] 1.4.7 packages for OS X

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: >> Warning: these packages still have not been extensively tested. > I haven't had chance to look at them yet. I've just had a quick look at your installer and I'm afraid that it wouldn't meet the standards set by the macgpg team. Take a lo

Re: 1.4.7 packages for OS X

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > I updated the packages (very slightly) to install into /usr/local, > instead of /usr. Um, macgpg should install to /usr/local. > Warning: these packages still have not been extensively tested. I haven't had chance to look at them yet. When I get time I'll finish out th

Re: [Macgpg-users] 1.4.7 packages for OS X

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: > Maybe I misunderstood the indications in . My understanding is that the macgpg team decided to stop supporting old versions of Mac OS. However, the recent version of gnupg should (touch wood!) compile from source without any (real) problems.

Re: [Macgpg-users] 1.4.7 packages for OS X

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Ryan R. LaMothe wrote: > How difficult would be it be to package this application as a .app > bundle instead of all over the filesystem like the typical Unix > application (which makes installing/uninstalling/upgrading a pita)? There's nothing stopping you doing it and making the result available

Re: 1.4.7 packages for OS X

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > I've taken the liberty of packaging up 1.4.7 for OS X. Take a look at the macgpg project at http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/ > (I apologize to Benjamin if I'm stepping on his toes here; by my > recollection, > he's doing packages for 2.0.x, not 1.4.x, so I _should_ be s

Re: Update 1.4.6 Mac OS configure error

2007-02-26 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
boksbox wrote: > I tried to install the 1.4.6 update to my 1.4.5 GnuPG. As I followed the > compile instruction I encounter an error. Try my gnupg 1.4.6 binary install at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/GnuPG1.4.6.dmg Ben ___ Gnu

Re: [Macgpg-users] GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-21 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > I have a test version of a GnuPG v2.0.2 Mac OS Tiger install available Patch for TEST2 available at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.2-TEST2-PATCH1.zip and sig at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.2-TE

Re: Compiling GnuPG 2.0.1 on MacOS X

2007-02-20 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Werner Koch wrote: > Let me know if it works and I change the code. It works perfectly - many thanks! :-))) > Using system helps because it creates a new argv[0]. Unfortunately, I was barking up the wrong tree after reading that MacOSX relies upon modified copies of the shell interpreters to in

Re: [Macgpg-users] GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-18 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Werner Koch wrote: > There has never been such an option. You need to specify this option > with scdaemon. gpg2 has no internal fallback support for smart > cards. It requires gpg-agent/scdaemon. [...] >> Despite the following in the man page: > I'll fix the doc. That'd be good - many thanks.

Re: [Macgpg-users] GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > ii/ Download > http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/environment.plist > and save in ~/.MacOSX/ I forgot to mention that this file will need editing - replace all instances of ~ with the full path to your user area. Unfortunately, it won

Re: [Macgpg-users] GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > No patches were needed to any of the code and only libgcrypt's config.h > needed a minor edit for endian issues with the fat build. Unfortunately, gpg v2.0.2 does not appear to recognise the option pcsc-driver anymore: $ gpg2 --pcsc-driver /System/Library

Re: [Macgpg-users] GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: >> What happens if you use gpg2 for signing etc? > 1. In Thunderbird, changed the executable path (typed in > /usr/local/bin/gpg2), quit TB, launch TB, everything works fine. > Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (Darwin) Fantastic news! :- Libgcrypt took a while to convince to build

Re: [Macgpg-users] GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > I'll throw together a friendlier GUI fronted install > package this afternoon and will make an announcement > when it's ready. It was quicker than I thought... GUI install can be downloaded from http:

Re: [Macgpg-users] GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: > Everything is working fine just as reported in my previous e-mail: > gpg-agent is running fine for signing and decrypting in Thunderbird and Mail Excellent news! :-) > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) What happens if you use gpg2 for signing etc? Take care, Ben __

Re: GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > I have a test version of a GnuPG v2.0.2 Mac OS Tiger install available > at > http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.2-TEST1.tgz There have been a couple of issues with the tar archive - I guess I'm too used to the command lin

GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-16 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
I have a test version of a GnuPG v2.0.2 Mac OS Tiger install available at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.2-TEST1.tgz (Sig available at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.2-TEST1.tgz.sig) This is a Universal Binary and /should/ wo

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