Re: gpg & kmail

2008-05-24 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri May 23 2008, Nicholas Sushkin wrote: > > You need gnupg2 package for KMail to support S/MIME. > > well, I found that you can change the path for gpg 1.4.9 using > the ./configure --prefix=PATH. so I recompiled it with /usr/bin > instead of th

Encrypt a file

2008-05-24 Thread Eduardo Júnior
Hello, It is possible to encrypt a file, using gpg, and then, I can decriptar using more than one RSA key? Or if I can encrypt the file with the figure CAST5 using more than one passphase? []'s -- Eduardo Júnior GNU/Linux user #423272 :wq ___ Gnup

Re: Disabling compression when encrypting

2008-05-24 Thread David Shaw
On May 24, 2008, at 1:58 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 23:56 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote: I prefer to use external compression tools before encrypting my data with GnuPG. Is there any way to disable compression in GnuPG to avoid the CPU overhead of the unnecessary additional l

Re: gpg & kmail

2008-05-24 Thread Nicholas Sushkin
On Friday 23 May 2008 21:44, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri May 23 2008, Nicholas Sushkin wrote: > > > kmail seems to want to find these programs under /usr/bin when they > > > seem to be installed under /usr/local/bin > > > > I'd be suspicious. Make sure you don't have a self-compiled version o

Re: Disabling compression when encrypting

2008-05-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David Shaw wrote: Note that GPG also checks the input file to see if it is compressed. If it sees a compressed input file, it automatically disables compression. How does it do this? Does it look for known headers, or does it check the entropy of the source text? If the former, then what he

Re: playing with cryptography...

2008-05-24 Thread reynt0
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Faramir wrote: reynt0 escribió [format slightly neatened by reynt0]: is "Philosophy 101 stuff" (as RJH said), but the subject is serious and important, IMHO, and the more people can be aware of this on like a Philosophy 401 basis the less at-risk they will be. Wow... no

Re: playing with cryptography...

2008-05-24 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 reynt0 wrote: > competence should taught by the 4xx level Apparently You haven't Interviewed a U.S. College Graduate recently. :-\ A Bachelor's Degree is usually 'proof of competence' only in Course/Instructor selection and One's tolerance level

Re: playing with cryptography...

2008-05-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
John W. Moore III wrote: > Apparently You haven't Interviewed a U.S. College Graduate recently. > :-\ Or, for that matter, some people with graduate degrees. As I told a friend of mine a couple of days ago, "I used to be a lot more impressed by Master's degrees until they gave me one." An underg

Re: Disabling compression when encrypting

2008-05-24 Thread David Shaw
On May 24, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: David Shaw wrote: Note that GPG also checks the input file to see if it is compressed. If it sees a compressed input file, it automatically disables compression. How does it do this? Does it look for known headers, or does it check t