Re: Is Open PGP or GnuPG or GPG possible on a Mac?

2015-05-01 Thread Martin Behrendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It should be possible but it might require high technical skills in the operation of a search engine of your choice. Lets try your topic: https://startpage.com/do/search?q=Is+Open+PGP+or+GnuPG+or+GPG+possible+on+a+Mac Looks like some usable answers

How to get my GNUPG Elgamal private key exponent?

2015-05-01 Thread Danny Crane
Hi, I have tried googling around. The closest solution I get is: private.key contains the private key file. $pgpdump -i private.key But this only gives me the following: ElGamal p ElGamal g ElGamal y Encrypted Elgamal x some other information of crypto It shows the value for p,g,y, but not x.

Re: Is Open PGP or GnuPG or GPG possible on a Mac?

2015-05-01 Thread Samir Nassar
On Thursday 30 April 2015 23:47:42 Mercury Rising wrote: > I will take the answer on the list and at mercuryrisin...@gmail.com. I Up > graded to Mavericks on the Mac. I am looking for a whole package of open > source PGP-like programs that will let me encrypt to other keys and manage > other keys

Re: How to get my GNUPG Elgamal private key exponent?

2015-05-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2015-05-01 02:37:03 -0400, Danny Crane wrote: > I have tried googling around. The closest solution I get is: > > private.key contains the private key file. > > $pgpdump -i private.key > > But this only gives me the following: > > ElGamal p > ElGamal g > ElGamal y > Encrypted Elgamal x > som

Re: How to get my GNUPG Elgamal private key exponent?

2015-05-01 Thread Danny Crane
Thank you. Really helps! On May 1, 2015 6:57 AM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" wrote: > On Fri 2015-05-01 02:37:03 -0400, Danny Crane wrote: > > > I have tried googling around. The closest solution I get is: > > > > private.key contains the private key file. > > > > $pgpdump -i private.key > > > > But th

Re: Multiple Smartcards - Signing

2015-05-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2015-04-30 17:49:28 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: > Why isn't gpg smarter about selecting only from the /available/ keys > at the time of signing? BTW, I'm using 2.1.3 I think this is the crux of your issue. It sounds like a bug to me. I've opened a bug report about it: https://bugs.gnup

Re: excessive usage of /dev/random?

2015-05-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> One assertion (from Robert J. Hansen) implies that a "high school > math overview of large number theory" suggests that it may well be > reasonable to require 2400 bits of entropy to generate a 2048-bit RSA > key. And unreasonable, too. I specifically said that I couldn't use it to argue one si