Re: Trying to get PKA working

2024-02-21 Thread Philip Colmer via Gnupg-users
ys your.em...@example.org ... and this doesn't work. Should I be concerned? Do I need to change something for the latter example to work? Or is that deprecated now and your example is the valid one? Regards Philip On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 11:39, Werner Koch wrote: > > Hi! > >

Trying to get PKA working

2024-02-21 Thread Philip Colmer via Gnupg-users
There wasn't a configuration file in place for gpg so I created one with just this entry: auto-key-locate pka Should there be other entries in that file? Is that why I'm getting the "No name error"? Thank you. Regards Philip ___ Gn

Re: Partial/fragmented decryption keys

2019-12-08 Thread Philip Jackson
hances that the secret is lost, or to increase the number of parties that must cooperate to reveal the secret." hhh Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: symmetric encryption is not working

2018-01-07 Thread Philip Jackson
plaintext file without asking for > a passphrase. It would seem that the command '-d' is missing. gpg -d testfile.gpg works for me. And requests the password before decrypting. Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Unable to sign or decrypt with card

2017-09-15 Thread Philip Jackson
On 14/09/17 07:26, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > Philip Jackson wrote: >> I have the log file which I attach. >> >> It shows a number of reports of the same error (lines 89,91,97,99,101) >> ERR 83886254 Unknown option , before it asks me for the pin >> (line 111). It

Re: Unable to sign or decrypt with card

2017-09-11 Thread Philip Jackson
ent established gpg: using subkey 0x79D467BFF5DF6C91 instead of primary key 0x26BD500A23543A63 # off=271 ctb=d2 tag=18 hlen=2 plen=0 partial new-ctb :encrypted data packet: length: unknown mdc_method: 2 gpg: using subkey 0x79D467BFF5DF6C91 instead of primary key 0x26BD500A23543A63 gpg: encr

Unable to sign or decrypt with card

2017-09-09 Thread Philip Jackson
rough. gpg2 -K does list my secret key - Suggestions as to how to check and correct this situation would be appreciated. Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Did exit codes change in 2.1.21?

2017-05-19 Thread Philip Jocks
an us ((null) < 2.1.21) [GNUPG:] WARNING server_version_mismatch 0 server 'scdaemon' is older than us ((null) < 2.1.21) When building with SCDAEMON support, this warning disappears as expected. With or without SCDAEMON support, gpg now properly exits 0 again. Will there be a 2.1

Did exit codes change in 2.1.21?

2017-05-18 Thread Philip Jocks
ed [GNUPG:] CARDCTRL 6 We don't build the FreeBSD port with SCDAEMON support. To verify, we built it for one box with SCDAEMON support, but the error is still the same. Is there anything else we can try? Cheers, Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing li

Re: Hybrid keysigning party, your opinion?

2017-02-18 Thread Philip Jackson
On 18/02/17 16:15, Peter Lebbing wrote: > O Come, All Ye Hackful! Adeste Fiddle-es[2]! Yea ! Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gn

Re: :-(( Re: smart card no longer works

2016-09-20 Thread Philip Jackson
that the command was not recognised. After consulting man gpg2, I tried the following and this worked. gpg2 --import --import-options keep-ownertrust ~/path-to-my-key/mykey.sec.asc Thanks, Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: :-(( Re: smart card no longer works

2016-09-17 Thread Philip Jackson
although verify on its own causes me a problem but I shouldn't think that is connected with the smartcard. Thanks. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: :-(( Re: smart card no longer works

2016-09-11 Thread Philip Jackson
;ll have to dig in the archives and see if I can find records of how I got it working back in 2014. Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: :-(( Re: smart card no longer works

2016-09-11 Thread Philip Jackson
cess of moving to a new installation wrong. So I am in need of a precise process description to start again and do it correctly. Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: :-(( Re: smart card no longer works

2016-09-10 Thread Philip Jackson
n the file decrypt command but of course I have to enter the old full passphrase rather than the six digit pin of the smartcard. Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: :-(( Re: smart card no longer works

2016-09-09 Thread Philip Jackson
g and "gpg2 -o output_file -d input_file.gpg" fail with the same message : gpg: public key is 0x79D467BFF5DF6C91 gpg: using subkey 0x79D467BFF5DF6C91 instead of primary key 0x26BD500A23543A63 gpg: using subkey 0x79D467BFF5DF6C91 instead of primary key 0x26BD500A23543A63 gpg: encrypted with

smart card no longer works

2016-09-08 Thread Philip Jackson
ansceive failed: (0x1000a) gpg: apdu_send_simple(0) failed: card I/O error gpg: using subkey 0x79D467BFF5DF6C91 instead of primary key 0x26BD500A23543A63 gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 0x79D467BFF5DF6C91, created 2014-10-28 "Philip Jackson (Jan 2013 +) " gpg: public key d

Re: Website usability issue

2016-04-27 Thread Philip Jackson
38.7.1esr-1-deb8u1) with touchpad. But I don't see the problem you outline with the dropdown menus on gnupg.org (at least I presume you are writing about gnupg.org ?). I also use a wireless mouse but also no problem. And I'm cafeine deficient so move very slowly at this time of day

How to specify LDAP authentication details with dirmngr/GnuPG 2.1?

2016-04-20 Thread Philip Colmer
using something like: ldap://:password@server I've tried: keyserver ldap://server binddn="username" bindpw=password Does anyone know the correct way to specify a username and password for use with an LDAP keyserver, please? Thanks. Philip ___

Re: Using LDAP keyservers with gpg 2.1.11

2016-04-11 Thread Philip Colmer
keyserver-options bindpw=PASSWORD which is what https://wiki.gnupg.org/LDAPKeyserver suggests, but the software complains they are unrecognised; I suspect that gnupg 2.1 removed those but it isn't clear if they got replaced by something else. Thanks. Philip On 8 April 2016 at 12:19, Phil

Re: Using LDAP keyservers with gpg 2.1.11

2016-04-08 Thread Philip Colmer
ards to the ldd command, no, there is no linkage to libldap. I have the libldap package installed, so do I need to do something to get gnupg to link to it when I build it? Regards Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://list

Re: Using LDAP keyservers with gpg 2.1.11

2016-04-08 Thread Philip Colmer
ogin.linaro.org gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- OK gpg: DBG: chan_4 -> KEYSERVER gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- S KEYSERVER ldaps://uid=:@login.linaro.org gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- OK gpg: DBG: [not enabled in the source] keydb_new gpg: DBG: [not enabled in the source] keydb_search enter Regards Philip __

Re: Using LDAP keyservers with gpg 2.1.11

2016-04-07 Thread Philip Colmer
hould be doing something different to get more debugging info out of dirmngr, please clarify. At the moment, the only information I seem to be getting is: gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- ERR 167772346 No keyserver available Which doesn't really tell me much, and I cannot figure out where in the so

Using LDAP keyservers with gpg 2.1.11

2016-04-06 Thread Philip Colmer
ogin.linaro.org gpg: DBG: chan_4 -> KS_PUT gpg: DBG: chan_4 <- INQUIRE KEYBLOCK gpg: DBG: chan_4 -> [ 44 20 99 01 25 30 44 04 56 fe 8f d2 01 08 00 c2 ...(982 byte(s) skipped) ] gpg: DBG: chan_4 -> [ 44 20 20 4f ad 28 53 1c 95 8a ae 0f 57 5f 35 fc ...(231 byte(s) skipped) ] gpg:

Re: Error message "gpg: Can't check signature: Broken public key"

2015-12-12 Thread Philip Jackson
ed key gpg: Good signature from "MFPA" [unknown] gpg: aka "2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net>" [unknown] gpg: aka "0x251BCCEB547B7194" [unknown] gpg: WARNING: This key is not certifi

Re: Error message "gpg: Can't check signature: Broken public key"

2015-12-10 Thread Philip Jackson
signature UNTRUSTED BAD signature from 2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net>" Which is normal for an ECC key. On my laptop, with Debian Jessie and gpg2.1.7, the signature verifies ok. Again normal for 2.1.x Philip

Re: FAQ: drop mention of 1.4?

2015-08-28 Thread Philip Jackson
On 27/08/15 20:41, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > I, personally, don't think it's a big deal to drop mention of 1.4 except > to talk about "it's for system administrators, not regular users". > However, I'd really like to hear your feedback on this. Should we make > this change? Yes or no? Yes sig

[slightly off topic] e-courier.ca

2015-07-18 Thread Philip Neukom
I have to roll my eyes as I don't necessarily trust encryption if it isn't open for everyone to verify. Has anyone here tried, verified or used this service? Is this similar to what has been discussed as a potential use or service by GnuPG? The service isn't seamless but perhaps woul

Re: Problems with key available in v1.4.19 but not v2.1.5

2015-07-18 Thread Philip Neukom
Thank you, Juan. I didn't see your helpful comments until I read the digest this morning. I appreciate everyone's help. Philip. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Problems with key available in v1.4.19 but not v2.1.5

2015-07-18 Thread Philip Neukom
there is there a way to move the trust rating from the old cert to the newly created one other than ask those who signed to resign? Thanks again, Philip. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Problems with key available in v1.4.19 but not v2.1.5

2015-07-17 Thread Philip Neukom
pg --list-keys] with 1.4.19 and my keys are still there. Why would v1.4.19 show my pub and sec keys but v2.1.5 wouldn't? I presume this is something very basic but I'm stumped. I thought v1.x and v2.x keys were interoperable?? Thanks in advance for any guidance, Philip. PS I'm on dig

error computing keygrip

2015-05-28 Thread Philip Jackson
what might have gone wrong and why adding the username gets the same job done without any error messages ? Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Ohhhh jeeee: can't encode a 512 bit MD into a 608 bits frame

2015-05-27 Thread Philip Jackson
26 - so it might take a decade or so before gnupg2.1.xxx gets into the loop. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Ohhhh jeeee: can't encode a 512 bit MD into a 608 bits frame

2015-05-27 Thread Philip Jackson
On 27/05/15 10:36, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > On 05/22/2015 02:27 AM, Philip Jackson wrote: >> The key ID was 0x6e767393 > > It seems for me that this key has subkey of ECC, and that's the cause > of your trouble. You're right - this key has an ECC subkey for signing.

Re: Ohhhh jeeee: can't encode a 512 bit MD into a 608 bits frame

2015-05-21 Thread Philip Jackson
) Is it normal that gpg2 would not delete the key causing the problem ? If that is so, then we'll need to keep a copy of gnupg 1.xxx for keyring management. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing li

Re: Ohhhh jeeee: can't encode a 512 bit MD into a 608 bits frame

2015-05-19 Thread Philip Jackson
: can't encode a 512 bit MD into a 608 bits frame Aborted (core dumped) 134 philip@philip-desktop:~$ (134 being, I suppose, the error return) This does not happen with gpg -k (ie using gnupg 1.4.16) None of this is directly connected with attempting to sign a key (which I haven't

Ohhhh jeeee: can't encode a 512 bit MD into a 608 bits frame

2015-05-18 Thread Philip Jackson
ts frame > Aborted (core dumped) What causes this with gpg2 and not with gpg and what does it mean ? How should I recover this situation ? Thanks, Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnu

Re: upgrading v1 to v2

2015-03-26 Thread Philip Jackson
lable in its repository as well as gnupg1.1.16 You should easily be able to find 2.0.22 in 14.04. In a few weeks, you'll be able to get 15.04 (I suppose) and this could have something later than 2.0.22. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Making the case for smart cards for the average user

2015-03-14 Thread Philip Jackson
acy-cards > Geographic distribution of the product seems to be limited to US only - at least for your sponsors. Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: where can one find an official gnupg project statement on the state of sub project?

2015-03-05 Thread Philip Jackson
lunteers. At present, the concensus of many threads is that encryption in general is just too difficult for the average email user to use willingly and successfully. The 'average email user' just has his burden increased exponentially if he has to build everything from source as well in or

Re: How to send a key to a keyserver?

2015-02-27 Thread Philip Jackson
ed your command string and then substituted my key identity for yours. It worked ok. I tried the long id version like you used and also the short id version. All worked ok. So maybe it was just a keyserver glitch ? Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-16 Thread Philip Jackson
t running : gpg-agent: "error while loading shared libraries: libnpth.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" libnpth.so.0 is certainly present in /usr/local/lib/. Then I ran out of time - put the distro standard version back into service and went

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-16 Thread Philip Jackson
und' it would seem that you saved the signature.asc file in some convenient place completely removed from the email concerned and gpg couldn't make the connection. In any case, the Beckus signed emails do check fine with good signature in my thunderbird/enigmail client. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-12 Thread Philip Jackson
Hi Stephan, On 12/02/15 22:46, Stephan Beck wrote: > Hi, Philip, > > Am 11.02.2015 um 22:35 schrieb Philip Jackson: >> On 11/02/15 21:16, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >>> On Wed 2015-02-11 14:02:49 -0500, Philip Jackson wrote: >>>> On 11/02/15 14:59, Bria

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.1.2 released

2015-02-12 Thread Philip Jackson
ves you some > well-deserved peace of mind regarding financially sustaining yourself and your > family while continuing to work on GnuPG. I'll second all that - great news !! Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Philip Jackson
On 11/02/15 21:16, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Wed 2015-02-11 14:02:49 -0500, Philip Jackson wrote: >> On 11/02/15 14:59, Brian Minton wrote: >>> In Debian, the experimental repo has gpg 2.1 with all dependencies. Follow >>> the >>> instructions at https:

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Philip Jackson
y transparent but I suppose there must be a way to determine if 2.0.22 is original or augmented ? Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Philip Jackson
'm not there yet. No hurry, though - lots to learn. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Philip Jackson
rs. So I don't mind trying available releases more up to date than the distro makes available. I'm quite happy using enigmails's nightly builds. Neither "Ubuntu Software Centre" nor "Synaptic Package Manager" indicate availability of anything more modern than

moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-10 Thread Philip Jackson
? Any and all advice will be gratefully accepted, thank you. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: GPA fails to verify certain .asc files

2015-01-25 Thread Philip Jackson
On 25/01/15 12:05, Peter Lebbing wrote: > It seems Philip is confusing signed files and detached signatures, by the way: > >> > gpg --clearsign test1.txt gpg --clearsign -a test1.txt gpg --sign -a >> > test1.txt > The first two are exactly equivalent. Neither three pro

Re: GPA fails to verify certain .asc files

2015-01-25 Thread Philip Jackson
On 25/01/15 11:48, Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote: > On 01/24/2015 08:05 PM, Philip Jackson wrote: >> Using GPA 0.9.4 in linux. [...] >> So it appears to be a bit hit and miss trying to use GPA to verify downloaded >> .asc signatures. > > It looks like bug 1637 [1], whic

Re: GPA fails to verify certain .asc files

2015-01-25 Thread Philip Jackson
.16 which is the standard issue with my distro. I tried gnupg 2.0.22 which was the standard offered by my distro but I couldn't get their installation to work at all and I concluded that there must be something wrong with it so I downloaded and compiled/installed myself 2.0.26 last summer (ish) and

Re: GPA fails to verify certain .asc files

2015-01-24 Thread Philip Jackson
On 24/01/15 20:25, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 24/01/15 20:05, Philip Jackson wrote: >> Using GPA 0.9.4 in linux. >> >> I downloaded a file and its signature as a .asc from a website that I have >> used many times. While looking at the spelling of the filename, I >

GPA fails to verify certain .asc files

2015-01-24 Thread Philip Jackson
ignature file had a similar structure to the one made using the -ba command/option. So it appears to be a bit hit and miss trying to use GPA to verify downloaded .asc signatures. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users

Re: Key generation, subkeys and improved documentation

2015-01-05 Thread Philip Jackson
never used (for various reasons). Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: How to upgrade from 1.14.16 to 2.0.26 without duplicating, and related issues

2015-01-04 Thread Philip Jackson
step is to to move to gnupg 2.1 and that cannot co-exist with 2.0 versions. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Philip Jackson
image at 72 dpi and it is really small on my screen but it only weighs 29kB. I'll have a look at your suggestion, keybase.io. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Philip Jackson
ever - it hardly permits you to prepare an image before installing it to the key. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Philip Jackson
too large. And it appears that not all software will display the image at the same size. Can anyone offer practical advice on the image parameters ? Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users

Re: Keygrip v fingerprint ?

2014-11-30 Thread Philip Jackson
On 30/11/14 01:32, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > The keygrip is protocol-agnostic whereby the fingerprint would differ > e.g. between OpenPGP and X.509. From [0] (note "[2]"): > > The keygrip is a unique identifier for a key pair, it is > independent of any protocol, so that the same key can be u

Keygrip v fingerprint ?

2014-11-29 Thread Philip Jackson
don't remember where I saw it), it seemed to me that a keygrip looked just like a fingerprint. Could someone please explain the difference between a keygrip and a fingerprint or point me to a relevant document ? Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign

Re: The Facts:

2014-11-16 Thread Philip Jackson
urther info on these, try these links : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/+bug/1332864 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/+bug/1313879 My conclusion was that there must have been some issue with the gnupg2.0.22 package as prepared and released by ubuntu. Philip signat

Re: Why the software is crap

2014-11-15 Thread Philip Jackson
oor language with little if any punctuation. The name of the site recalls to me what was a popular expletive in the UK in or around the 1970's : "Gordon Bennett!!" Best forgotten. Philip ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Fermi estimates

2014-11-14 Thread Philip Jackson
acker know he has succeeded ? Does he have to pause between each iteration to see if he has 'something good' ? And in the 10**38 key attempts, what's the chance of having multiple apparently 'GOOD ONES' ? Perhaps a double bluff is need

Re: Update on USG, Software, and the First Amendment

2014-10-27 Thread Philip Jackson
rest in it -- it seems > disrespectful to Professor Johnson. :) It would be very interesting to read and I add my name to the request. (I remember well the late 80's when it was a major task getting agreement to permit the relocation of a micro-VAX from an office in UK to

Re: smart card under linux

2014-10-22 Thread Philip Jackson
Peter, I've had time to read and try to get to grips with the contents of your email. They've helped me make some progress : On 22/10/14 11:19, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 21/10/14 00:36, Philip Jackson wrote: >> I've followed, I believe, all the instructions in the gnupg

Re: smart card under linux

2014-10-22 Thread Philip Jackson
On 22/10/14 09:34, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote: > On 2014-10-21, Philip Jackson wrote: > > Did you really verify that pcscd is not running? It can cause your > error messages: https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/?p=89 > Your blog provides a lot of good stuff that I shall

Re: smart card under linux

2014-10-22 Thread Philip Jackson
Thank you for all this, Peter. It will take me a little while to digest and check out. Philip On 22/10/14 11:19, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 21/10/14 00:36, Philip Jackson wrote: >> I've followed, I believe, all the instructions in the gnupg.com smartcard >> howto. >>

Re: smart card under linux

2014-10-22 Thread Philip Jackson
On 22/10/14 09:34, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote: > On 2014-10-21, Philip Jackson wrote: > >> It then treats the other protocol, PC/SC, but all it says is "TODO >> - To use PC/SC make sure you disable CCID by passing the >> --disable-ccid option to GnuPG." >&

Re: smart card under linux

2014-10-21 Thread Philip Jackson
On 21/10/14 15:33, Tristan Santore wrote: > On 21/10/14 14:10, Philip Jackson wrote: >> On 21/10/14 12:59, Tristan Santore wrote: >>> On 20/10/14 23:36, Philip Jackson wrote: >> snip >> >>>> going under my UbuntuStudio 1404 linux. Using gnupg2

Re: smart card under linux

2014-10-21 Thread Philip Jackson
On 21/10/14 14:58, Pete Stephenson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Philip Jackson > wrote: >> On 21/10/14 09:25, Pete Stephenson wrote: >>> What is the result of running the command: >>> >>> echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO >> >> echo $G

Re: smart card under linux

2014-10-21 Thread Philip Jackson
On 21/10/14 12:59, Tristan Santore wrote: > On 20/10/14 23:36, Philip Jackson wrote: snip >> going under my UbuntuStudio 1404 linux. Using gnupg2 2.0.26. >> >> Trying to use the GnuPG driver to access CCID cards, "gpg2 --card-status" >> yield

Re: smart card under linux

2014-10-21 Thread Philip Jackson
On 21/10/14 09:25, Pete Stephenson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Philip Jackson > wrote: > [snip] >> This looks promising but I didn't take it any further because I want to get >> it >> going under my UbuntuStudio 1404 linux. Using gnupg2 2.0.26. >

smart card under linux

2014-10-20 Thread Philip Jackson
s should not be used in Ubuntu (unlike Debian) so I placed a copy of gnupg-ccid.rules directly in that directory. But that didn't help. lsusb shows that the SCM card reader is recognised and present but gpg doesn't seem to be able to make contact. I'd appreciate any ideas for what t

Re: gpg offering to encrypt to an unwanted key

2014-10-05 Thread Philip Jackson
On 05/10/14 21:18, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 05/10/14 20:44, Philip Jackson wrote: >>> desktop:~$ gpg2 -encrypt filename.txt > > Remember that a single dash introduces *short* options, so each letter is an > option. I think this becomes: > > $ gpg2 --encrypt --dry-run

gpg offering to encrypt to an unwanted key

2014-10-05 Thread Philip Jackson
able as often as I want. If I use one of the correct options for encrypt, the operation goes perfectly. Why would gnupg pick an unwanted key for encryption ? That seems a potentially dangerous thing to do even though there was a warning message. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Free Software Foundation statement on the GNU Bash "shellshock" vulnerability

2014-09-26 Thread Philip Jackson
you can use the first attachment to import into your keyring. Then whether or not you trust his signature is your decision. -Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

help with installing a smartcard

2014-09-23 Thread Philip Jackson
lly picked up, for this reason they must be files and not symlinks to another location as in the case in Debian." so I tried replacing the link created during section 2.3.1 of the howto webpage with a file. But the result is the same. Have I misinterpreted the steps in 2.3.1 ? -Philip

smartcards : bad link on howto page

2014-09-23 Thread Philip Jackson
st file. Looks like something to correct ? -Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: New beta

2014-09-21 Thread Philip Jackson
m monitor shows me that gnome-keyring-daemon process is running (but I don't think I'm actually doing anything with gnome keyrings) but it doesn't seem to interfere with encrypting/decrypting or signing emails or using gpg2 to verify signatures from the cli. Philip signature.asc

Re: New beta

2014-09-20 Thread Philip Jackson
e-keyring-gpg.desktop > 3. sudo apt-get install libdb-dev, libdb++-dev, libbz2-dev > 4. Install Openldap-2.4.39 using ./configure, make depend, make, sudo > make install > 5. sudo apt-get install gtk+-2.0 > 6. Install pinentry, gnupg-2.1 What, please, is the reason for the st

Re: Smart Card 4096 Key Question

2014-09-02 Thread Philip Jackson
, my problem is now resolved. It is however, some years since I last encountered so much kerfuffle for such a small purchase on the net. I point out too, that scm-pc-card did reply promptly to my emails. A similar query sent to a French company remains unanswered. Regards, Philip signat

Re: Smart Card 4096 Key Question

2014-09-01 Thread Philip Jackson
in /var/www/osc/catalog/includes/application_top.php on line 318" It looks like security is alive and doing well in Germany. I though we had something going for us in Europe these days but apparently not. Can anyone suggest a supplier in Europe who will sell outside his frontier

Re: email verification as casual checking?

2014-08-28 Thread Philip Jackson
On 28/08/14 00:58, Steve Jones wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:56:11 +0200 > Philip Jackson wrote: > >> - the email address belongs to a person who does control the key and >> he may or may not be the person named in the email address. I am >> risking my secrets wit

Re: installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-27 Thread Philip Jackson
tion of 2.0.26. > > As usual you need to install the development package for a library > before you can use it. This includes the static version of the library > (foo.a) and most important the header file. I downloaded bzip2=1.0.6.tar.gz and now gnupg 2.0.26 seems to be working f

Re: installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-27 Thread Philip Jackson
be elsewhere in the file structure and I haven't yet found out how to make use of it for my installation of 2.0.26. For the moment, I'm more than happy that my first experience of compiling from source code has worked. Philip 0x23543A63.asc Description

Re: installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-26 Thread Philip Jackson
--version' , the last line about compression shows that gpg2 does not have BZIP2. I suppose gnupg-1.4.16 and the new 2.0.26 share the same gpg.conf so I could remove BZIP2 from the gpg.conf file or perhaps better is to recompile 2.0.26 with BZIP2. What do you recommend ? Philip 0x2

Re: installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-26 Thread Philip Jackson
On 24/08/14 18:23, Philip Jackson wrote: > Wow, that's a pretty dumb mistake to make. I just assumed the latest version > was at the bottom of the list on the ftp page. Sorry about that. > I've now got the four dependencies noted in the gnupg-2.0.26 README installed under /u

Re: installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-24 Thread Philip Jackson
On 24/08/14 17:29, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 08/24/2014 04:48 PM, Philip Jackson wrote: >> I noted the dependencies and the order to install them. So I >> downloaded the libgpg-error-1.9.tar.bz2 file and set about >> extracting, configure, make, make install. Al

installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-24 Thread Philip Jackson
gcrypt? What did I miss out ? All advice welcome - thanks. Philip 0x23543A63.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mail

Re: email verification as casual checking?

2014-08-23 Thread Philip Jackson
y someone else. I have difficulty in seeing what additional security is provided by a casual signature, given by a key-server or by any other party. Philip 0x23543A63.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: Different signing & encryption keys

2014-08-13 Thread Philip Jackson
On 12/08/14 21:05, Werner Koch wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:50, ps...@ubuntu.com said: >> We used to use different keys for signing and encrypting ( DSA & El >> Gammel ), but these days just seem to use a single RSA key by default. > > That is not the case. GnuPG creates an RSA signing key and

Re: gnupg-2.1 Install

2014-08-11 Thread Philip Jackson
On 11/08/14 21:05, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> For some of us relatively new Ubuntu Linux users installing the >> latest gnupg can be a challenge. > > The latest GnuPG is in the Ubuntu repositories, last I checked. > Ubuntu's normally pretty good about keeping current. I'm also a new Ubuntu user (

Re: Error - bad passphrase

2014-08-11 Thread Philip Jackson
all the errors disappeared. I'm still trying to pluck up courage to have another go at gnupg2 and then into smart cards. Philip 0x23543A63.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: GPG4Win question

2014-07-11 Thread Philip Jackson
On 11/07/14 11:45, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > > Hi All, > > In what folder does gpg4win store it's gpa.conf and pubring.gpg files? > In Windows 7, 64bit, these files are in /Users/your_user_name/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/ regards, Philip 0x23543A63.asc Description:

Re: help needed getting gnupg to function correctly in linux

2014-06-21 Thread Philip Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/06/14 11:41, Tristan Santore wrote: > On 20/06/14 08:03, Bernhard Reiter wrote: >> On Wednesday 18 June 2014 at 19:04:16, Philip Jackson wrote: >>> It appears to me (in all my ignorance) that there is a problem >>> c

Re: help needed getting gnupg to function correctly in linux

2014-06-20 Thread Philip Jackson
Thank you Bernhard for your reply : On 20/06/14 09:03, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > On Wednesday 18 June 2014 at 19:04:16, Philip Jackson wrote: >> It appears to me (in all my ignorance) that there is a problem connected >> with gpg-agent and PINentry. The Synaptic Package Manag

help needed getting gnupg to function correctly in linux

2014-06-18 Thread Philip Jackson
I can't send signed or encrypted emails in Thunderbird. I am using Thunderbird 24.5, enigmail 1.6, UbuntuStudio 14.04. Gnupg 1.4.16 was already installed in the linux distribution and I installed gnupg2 v2.0.22. I also installed Kleopatra and GPA because I am used to those gui's in Win7. I impor

Re: [Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 1.4.15 released

2013-10-05 Thread Philip Neukom
On 5.10.2013 15:31 , Charly Avital wrote: > Philip Neukom wrote on 10/5/13 7:56 PM: >> >> >> On 5.10.2013 9:53 , gnupg-users-requ...@gnupg.org wrote: >>> From: Charly Avital To: >>> Subject: Re: [Announce] [security fix] GnuPG >>> 1.4.15 rele

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