Character set and File exists

2005-11-01 Thread bingumalla satyanarayana
Hello, I am new to GnuPG. If I run any command from gpg, I am getting the following message: gpg: conversion from `utf-8' to `roman8' not available I am using HP Unix 11.0. Is there any way to avoid the above message? Secondly, I am giving -o option in the command line and if the file alread

Re: Feature request: expand 'clean' to 'clean total'

2005-11-01 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 27 Oct 2005 Dirk Traulsen wrote: > I first posted this under an old (but fitting) thread and got > no response. Sorry, if you already read it. > > Nowadays there are quite some keys, which have several hundred > signatures on their UIDs. This is a good thing for the WoT, > but it clutters the

Re: ECC

2005-11-01 Thread Topas
Alphax wrote: Is it in OpenPGP yet? I think there are IDs reserved for it,... but not sure if the whole algorithm/system is contained in RFC2440... Regards, Topas. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/

[Announce] GnuPG 1.3.91 released (development)

2005-11-01 Thread Modu, Zuky
Hi Zuky, I'm sorry this has nothing to do with your website. Its just that my Name is Zuky and i am on a quest to find out what it means and where it originates from, when i saw you web link on the net i thought you could help me. If you have any information that may help in my quest, i would be

Re: Lots of questions

2005-11-01 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 27 Oct 2005, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Rather than quoting what you have, I will just go through what your points and make comments. If I don't comment, I leave it to OTHERS to make the comments or you to hash it out alone. For the others, reply to his questions, not my comments (unle

Re: Feature request: expand 'clean' to 'clean total'

2005-11-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Saturday 29 October 2005 9:25 am, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > I hope I am misunderstanding this. I think I am. I think you've missed the distinction between this happening on a local keyring and the effect on a keyserver. If keyserver behaviour remains as now, changes like this to your local

Re: the best signature type someone can give me

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
David Shaw wrote: If so,... should I (for security/cryptography reasons) ask users to sign my key only with SHA512 (or whatever is considered as the currently strongest hash)? And/or should I sign others UIDs only with SHA512 (..) ? This is up to you, but note that most OpenPGP programs d

Re: the best signature type someone can give me

2005-11-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
David Shaw wrote: First, read this: http://download.cryptoex.com/documents/whitepaper/cex2003-pgp-in-unternehmen-en/Tech%20White%20Paper%202002%20-%20Using%20OpenPGP%20in%20Corporations.pdf Then, read this: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2005-May/025612.html Thanks :-)

Re: the best signature type someone can give me

2005-11-01 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:52:19PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Example: > > me->(tsign_1)->root_CA > root_ca->(sign)->president > root_ca->(tsign-x)->sub_CA > > =>root_ca and president is valid to me > =>sub_CA is vaild too but nothing that sub_CA signs/tsigns is vaild for me > > Ex

Re: the best signature type someone can give me

2005-11-01 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:39:14PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > >>If so,... should I (for security/cryptography reasons) ask users to sign > >>my key only with SHA512 (or whatever is considered as the currently > >>strongest hash)? And/or should I sign others UI

Re: OpenPG/X.509 interoperability

2005-11-01 Thread Henning Hucke
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:36:13 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer said: > > > This is perhaps a stupid question but how far are these two standards > > interoperable? > > They are not interoperable. Depends on what you rate to be "interoperable" (see below)

Re: Character set and File exists

2005-11-01 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:50:56AM +, bingumalla satyanarayana wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to GnuPG. If I run any command from gpg, I am getting the > following message: > > gpg: conversion from `utf-8' to `roman8' not available > > I am using HP Unix 11.0. Is there any way to avoid the ab

Re: OpenPG/X.509 interoperability

2005-11-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:42:48 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer said: > What do you mean by "private extension"? OpenPGP defines identifier ranges for private and experimental use. Salam-Shalom, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg

Re: OpenPG/X.509 interoperability

2005-11-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:56:25 +0100 (CET), Henning Hucke said: > X.509 as well as OpenPGP are just package aroung the product. You can > use the private and public keys themselfs to package them as OpenPGP or > X.509. So this way you can have one and the same key pair to work in > both worlds. S