ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-29 Thread Hardeep Singh
Hi All I recently looked at software called 'seccure' which is available for linux. Its a tool for public key encryption using ECC rather than prime number factoring. http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_elliptic_curve.cfm Here NSA is making a case for ECC. One advantage that does seem to exis

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Re: ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Hardeep Singh wrote: > What do you all think about this? Should we start building an ECC > WOT? :-) As soon as it gets added to the OpenPGP RFC, then we should. Until then, it's premature. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://list

beginner to gnupg

2007-10-29 Thread bjr149
I am very new to PGP. I understand the concept of a public key and a private key. I worked with a client who sent me their public key which was a nice text file. Im trying to export my public key to a text file but everytime I run it I get a bunch of jumble garbage. C:\GNU\GnuPG>gpg --export "

Re: Multiple recipients encryption

2007-10-29 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Noiano schrieb: > I was wondering about how gnupg works when I encrypt a message for > multiple recipients. As long as I know public-key encryption works as > described in this image > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Public_key_encryption.svg. This image is a simplified vie

script to clean my keyring

2007-10-29 Thread Michael
Hello, I like to clean my key ring automatically. I have put the attached lines together to do this. But something is wrong, the script shows the data which need to be changed but the update is not saved. Experts, what is wrong here?? for i in `gpg --list-keys --fixed-list-mode --with-colons

Simple beginners questions about the gpg-smartcard

2007-10-29 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I just subsribed to the list. I'm using the gpg-smartcard and it just works for me. However, I have a couple of maybe really simple questions which weren't answered by the documentation I've read so far - yet. 1) Once I created my keypair on

Detached signature that is not one

2007-10-29 Thread Sascha Kiefer
Hi, I wrote an programm, which automatically decrypt/verifies incoming parts of an email. Actually, works pretty good. I just parse the mail, decompose it in several files, give it gpg, verify output and rebuild the email. Today there was this spam email. It only had an body which gpg recognized a

Re: ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-29 Thread Remco Post
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Hardeep Singh wrote: >> What do you all think about this? Should we start building an ECC >> WOT? :-) > > As soon as it gets added to the OpenPGP RFC, then we should. Until > then, it's premature. > So actually, you could, but you need to start lobbying to get it adde

Re: beginner to gnupg

2007-10-29 Thread Sean Rima
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 bjr149 wrote: > I am very new to PGP. I understand the concept of a public key and a private > key. > > I worked with a client who sent me their public key which was a nice text > file. Im trying to export my public key to a text file but every

GPG: Suddenly lost access to encryptet file

2007-10-29 Thread _fr0st
Hello, A couple of days ago, I startet a process to create a new encrypted LVM-partition, and move everything I got from the regular LVM to the encrypted one. Btw, I use loop-aes to encrypt my partition. Now, after some days, some unmounts/mounts, I suddenly gets "Error: gpg key file decryption

Re: script to clean my keyring

2007-10-29 Thread John Clizbe
Michael wrote: > I like to clean my key ring automatically. I have put the attached lines > together to do this. But something is wrong, the script shows the data > which need to be changed but the update is not saved. Experts, what is > wrong here?? > > for i in `gpg --list-keys --fixed-list-m

Re: beginner to gnupg

2007-10-29 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:45:27 -0700 (PDT) bjr149 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I worked with a client who sent me their public key which was > a nice text file. Im trying to export my public key to a text > file but everytime I run it I get a bunch of jumble garbage. > > C:\GNU\GnuPG>gpg --export

Subkey DSA signature changes after importing secret keyring

2007-10-29 Thread YYZ
Hi everyone! Can anyone exlain this strange gpg behavior, observed when I follow these steps? I use gpg to generate a key-pair using default options (1024D/2048g). Afterwards, I import the secret keyring into another account, and issue the following commands "gpg --export" and "gpg --export-sec

Re: Detached signature that is not one

2007-10-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Today there was this spam email. It only had an body which gpg recognized as > an detached signature > and asked me for the datafile. Which of course, i didn`t have. Please find > the body of the email attached. > > Is this a bug in gpg? (tried