Re: Detecting a misremembered passphrase in gpg-agent

2024-06-13 Thread Jack via Gnupg-users
On 2024.06.13 06:57, ael via Gnupg-users wrote: Further thoughts on detecting a mistaken passphrase entry when encrypting. I have looked at both man gpg-agent and info and I could not immediately see anything to help, but I quickly became lost in the overwhelming volume of the entries :-) So p

Re: How to solve this garbled code?

2022-02-20 Thread Jack via Gnupg-users
Not gpg specific, but I would capture that output in a file, and then use other tools to figure out what that text is.  On linux, I would start with some variant of "od -c" or perhaps open it in a text editor or word processor. On 2/18/22 06:34, Gao Xiaohui via Gnupg-users wrote: Hi developer

Re: make check -> libgcrypt is too old

2021-11-08 Thread Jack via Gnupg-users
On 2021.11.08 10:54, Christoph Klassen via Gnupg-users wrote: I was trying to build GnuPG 2.3.3. For that reason I downloaded and built npth 1.6, libgpg-error 1.43, libgcrypt 1.9.4, libksba 1.6.0 and libassuan 2.5.5 (in this order). Then I started the build process for GnuPG with ./configu

Re: how to add a passphrase to a keypair

2021-10-07 Thread Jack via Gnupg-users
OK, I have to declare defeat. I obviously have a far worse case of CRS (Can't remember stuff) than I thought. On 2021.10.06 16:03, anonymous via Gnupg-users wrote: On Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 at 7:54 AM, Jack via Gnupg-users wrote: > I do not have secring.gpg or pubring.gpg, bu

Re: how to add a passphrase to a keypair

2021-10-03 Thread Jack via Gnupg-users
On 10/3/21 12:53, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote: gpg -k and gpg -K both show my main key. I compiled a copy of gpg1 (not installed to the system) to try to use locally, since it doesn't enforce the use of a passphrase for the secret key.  Unfortunately, without secring.gpg, it doesn't

Re: how to add a passphrase to a keypair

2021-10-03 Thread Jack via Gnupg-users
On 10/2/21 22:51, raf via Gnupg-users wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 01:40:03PM +1100, raf wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 07:12:45PM -0400, Jack via Gnupg-users wrote: Is it possible to add a passphrase to a secret key originally created without one? If so, please tell me how. I'

how to add a passphrase to a keypair

2021-10-02 Thread Jack via Gnupg-users
Is it possible to add a passphrase to a secret key originally created without one? If so, please tell me how. I'll be happy with either instructions or pointer to the fine manual I either missed or misread. I have tried lots of variations. Attempts using gpg-agent fail because pinentry (