Import Secret Key

2009-05-18 Thread jnhemley
I was sent a file to decrypt. I got an error saying "secret key not available". I then tried to import a secret key from my original file. I got an error "permission Denied" along wile "file rename error" and "error reading file". What am I doing wrong ? -- View this message in context: http:/

Changing usage of master key

2009-05-18 Thread Resul Cetin
Hi, I generated a new RSA cert/sign key. Default is to use it as sign and cert, but I wanted to use a seperated sign subkey and use the master key only for cert stuff. Is it possible to change it afterwards and how to do it? I have no fear of hex editors and unix commandline tools. My first idea

gpg: mpi too large for this implementation (20744 bits)

2009-05-18 Thread Farha Patnaikk
Hi, I am exchanging files with another party , i use Version : 7.1.1 of pgp . The party with whome i am exchanging files uses gpg. I am able to decrypt their encrypted file successfully but they are not able to decrypt my encrypted file. They get the following error message C:\Temp>gpg --ho

Configure error libgcrypt and libgpg-error

2009-05-18 Thread Stemper, Robert (Bob)
Hi. I am trying to install the GPG 2.0 package and need to first install the prereq packages, as listed in the readme. GnuPG 2.0 depends on the following packages: libgpg-error (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/) libgcrypt(ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/) libksba (ftp:

RE: mpi too large for this implementation (20744 bits)

2009-05-18 Thread Sascha Kiefer
You may try gpg --print-md sha1 testfile.dat.pgp to ensure that the file is not corrupted during transport. HTH Sascha From: gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Farha Patnaikk Sent: Montag, 18. Mai 2009 05:06 To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org S

Re: Import Secret Key

2009-05-18 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 jnhemley wrote: > I was sent a file to decrypt. I got an error saying "secret key not > available". I then tried to import a secret key from my original file. I got > an error "permission Denied" along wile "file rename error" and "error > reading

Re: There are actually two public keys?

2009-05-18 Thread R.A. Hettinga
I passed this on to Jon Callas. Here's what he came back with... Cheers, RAH --- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My apologies for top-posting, and please forward this on. I'm going to agree slightly differently with Davi

Re: Changing usage of master key

2009-05-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
In principle it is possible by issuing new self-sigs, but gnupg doesn't support this AFAIK. Chris. This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ Gnupg-users mai

Re: There are actually two public keys?

2009-05-18 Thread James P. Howard, II
On Mon May 18 08:45:38 2009, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > The reason for it is a notion of what's called "key hygiene," and > that's an important concept in RSA usage. That is the notion that one > should never sign with an encryption key, and never encrypt with a > signing key. This leads indirectly

Re: There are actually two public keys?

2009-05-18 Thread David Shaw
On May 18, 2009, at 5:49 PM, James P. Howard, II wrote: On Mon May 18 08:45:38 2009, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The reason for it is a notion of what's called "key hygiene," and that's an important concept in RSA usage. That is the notion that one should never sign with an encryption key, and never