Re: auto-key-locate pka (gpg version 1.4.3)

2006-04-09 Thread Alphax
xecutable? > > That's a good idea. I'll look at doing that. > Will that also include "undocumented" features like --enarmor? -- Alphax Message composed: 2006-04-10T15:19:27+09:30 ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Clear all signatures on key?

2006-04-19 Thread Alphax
alid self-signature; a self-signature on a UID "binds" the UID to the key itself. If it were not for selfsigs ike this, it would be trivial for someone to inject their own UID (with your name, but a different email address) into their copy of your key and then upload it to eg. a ke

Re: newbie: --edit-key problem

2006-04-19 Thread Alphax
t 3DES is *required* for a cipher algorithm; it is mandatory that programs complying to the RFC implement 3DES as a cipher algorithm, DSA and Elgamal for keys, and SHA-1 for a hash function. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Feature_comparison sums it up pretty neatly. --

Re: USB Drive Use

2006-04-27 Thread Alphax
on. Of course, it's still in beta, and I've never used it, and I have no idea if it would work on a USB device, but it's worth a try... -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.a

Retrieving keys via v3 fingerprint

2006-05-02 Thread Alphax
How does one get keys from a keyserver when only the v3 fingerprint is known? I recovered the fingerprints from a trustdb (they had appended), but I can't work out how to get them off a keyserver... -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with catego

Re: Retrieving keys via v3 fingerprint

2006-05-03 Thread Alphax
David Shaw wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:45:15AM +0930, Alphax wrote: >> How does one get keys from a keyserver when only the v3 fingerprint is >> known? I recovered the fingerprints from a trustdb (they had >> appended), but I can't work out how t

Re: Retrieving keys via v3 fingerprint

2006-05-04 Thread Alphax
David Shaw wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:59:52PM +0930, Alphax wrote: >> David Shaw wrote: >>> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:45:15AM +0930, Alphax wrote: >>>> How does one get keys from a keyserver when only the v3 fingerprint is >>>> known? I recovered

Re: Getting KMail to let me encrypt to an unsigned key?

2006-05-16 Thread Alphax
t; Would it cause any other problems? > You will be asked to set an ownertrust value... It might be worth trying to find an actual trust path using Wotsap (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jc/wotsap/) or similar as well as lsigning the key, but YMMV. -- A

Re: auto-key-locate

2006-05-18 Thread Alphax
u *really* know what you are doing, > you may answer the next question with yes. > > Use this key anyway? (y/N) > Have you tried it with trust-model always in your gpg.conf? The key you're trying to encyrpt to probably isn't within your trust path. > Btw, DNS CERT r

Re: tar file for version 1.4.3--- bad signature?

2006-05-19 Thread Alphax
y end it has checksums of: MD5 = D2 37 D8 FE 1C 4A FA 37 9F 56 DB DA 0E 0B 40 E4 SHA1 = 9E96 B36E 4F4D 1E8B C502 8C99 FAC6 7448 2CBD B370 RMD160 = F6D3 2878 5F41 B74F 97D2 5305 C6FE 95AD 45BB 70A5 Of course, you should check the detached sig for that one rather than trust me on it... :) --

Re: gnupg plaintext encryption?

2006-05-28 Thread Alphax
=5OsL > -END PGP MESSAGE- > ^Z You get: > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. HTH, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: gnupg plaintext encryption?

2006-05-28 Thread Alphax
8A2 -r 0xB1E06496 > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. > ^Z -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: Usenet: Signing date problems - advice needed

2006-05-28 Thread Alphax
uldn't find a user-agent string in your headers, but assuming you're using Outlook Express: have you looked at GPGOL <http://wald.intevation.org/projects/gpgoe>? It's possible that this is a word-wrapping issue, but since I neither use Outlook Express or Usenet, I can't real

Re: set owner trust from a script

2006-05-28 Thread Alphax
this isn't entirely foolproof and may have unintended consequences - make backups of your keyring(s) and trustdb first. I've mainly used it semi-automatically where I check the status of some keys, run the script, and then re-check the status of the keys. HTH, -- Alphax

Re: GnuPG asks for confirmation...

2006-05-31 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4-svn4147:IDEA-TIGER192-DSA2 (MingW32) owNCWmg2MUFZJlNZeXIg9QABDH/3mvZv7d3u1u7+6/9u9+fv7zbr3P+Y et9XR/NAAbdzYbgyhoAA0aGgAAAB6gAAANBoAaDQAPUAAAD1AAAGgGgPKBo9TE09 T0nptUKqaep6npDQGgyD0gDQGjQA9TIAaGgaADIAaaaABpiAGgANABoyaAADTQNG mgiqeRGwk0bUDIGT

Re: GPGFiletool does not find all keys in my keychain

2006-05-31 Thread Alphax
;s key. Why does GPGFiletool not find it? > Is the key trusted? -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: GnuPG asks for confirmation...

2006-05-31 Thread Alphax
Alphax wrote: > Laurent Jumet wrote: >> Hello ! >> >> Charly Avital <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> This is a bit strange. >> >> You mean that you cannot read compressed (not crypted) messages. >> >> > > eg. a me

Re: Info on sub keys?

2006-06-03 Thread Alphax
n sub keys, aside from technical > specifications (such as RFC 2440), then please let me know. > Adrian von Bidder wrote an excellent tutorial on subkeys at <http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys>. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperativ

Re: signature comments?

2006-06-05 Thread Alphax
by the signature. HTH, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://l

Re: gnupg-agent not working...

2006-06-06 Thread Alphax
il. You could of course use --passphrase-file , provided the file is only readable by yourself, but on a MinGW32 platform this is quite unlikely. That leaves --passphrase-string, which is still a security risk. -- Alphax D

Re: PGP zip

2006-06-09 Thread Alphax
I don't know. > Minimum requirement is MSYS <http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml>, which is a small set of the Cygwin tools. Never used gpg-zip myself though. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.

Re: False Decrypt Error...

2006-06-14 Thread Alphax
file her_userid > pgp -kxa userid keyfile [keyring] HTH, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: PGP to GnuPG

2006-06-16 Thread Alphax
ou still have the secret key, you can have the key sign itself and then this error will not occur. Otherwise, you can use the option in GnuPG --allow-non-selfsigned-uid to import the key, and then have it sign itself. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorica

Re: Moving to another computer

2006-06-19 Thread Alphax
cring.gpg, pubring.gpg, gpg.conf. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gn

Re: Moving to another computer

2006-06-20 Thread Alphax
x27;ll > be happier that way. > *thunk* Yeah, I should have thought of that... that's what comes of posting just before lunch. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Descrip

Interesting error message on import

2006-06-22 Thread Alphax
d about it? -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists

Re: Keyring Directory

2006-06-24 Thread Alphax
quot;C:\\Documents and Settings\\Username\\Application Data\\GnuPG" "OptFile"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\Username\\Application Data\\GnuPG\\gpg.conf" -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! Op

Re: Keyring Directory

2006-06-25 Thread Alphax
data\gnupg\some-other-secring.gpg # # set the trustdb to use trustdb-name c:\documents and settings\username\application data\gnupg\some-other-trustdb.gpg Note that on Windows paths are case insensitive, and unlike in the registry, backslashes do not need to be escaped and paths with spaces in the

Re: Keysigning challenge policies/procedures

2006-07-08 Thread Alphax
Y may or may not have been faked (which is trivial). The "owners" of W, X, Y and Z could be four different people, or they might not be people at all; all you can really say about the "key owner" is that X is in contact with W and Z, and Z is in contact with X and Y. --

Re: How to verify the file was successfully encrypted...

2006-07-12 Thread Alphax
. Excellent suggestion. This worked well with a .asc > file, but not with a .gpg file. Does anyone on the list have a > preference for .asc vs .gpg output? Pros? Cons? The size is almost > twice as big as a .gpg at this time, which is a definite con. But there > are probably some se

Re: How to verify the file was successfully encrypted...

2006-07-14 Thread Alphax
ote machine can then tell the local one to delete the > original; and if it's not OK, it can scream at you. > Better than that, if you get GPG to sign the file when it encrypts it (using a passwordless key/subkey) and/or use the MDC option, you'll be able to do this more reliably...

Re: Security of truncated hash functions

2006-07-29 Thread Alphax
what "common sense" seems to suggest. > I googled, but I found only > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/nist_hash_works_3.html > I know that sci.crypt would be a better place to ask this question, but > I don't like it. You could also ask at PGP-Basics :) --

Re: GPG and 1024-bit (or multiple) subkeys

2006-08-16 Thread Alphax
oo many secret keys used simultaneously |or due to excessive large key sizes) Now, although it can't generate keys that big, GPG can *use* a key of 16384 bits (presumably generated with one of Disastry's PGP 2.6.3 builds); again, operations involving such keys are painfully slow and

Re: Problem retrieving encrypted email

2006-08-19 Thread Alphax
ox, but it won't be forwarded by any filters, and it probably won't be accessible via the POP3 interface either. I'm fairly certain that the behaviour is identical for sending an email to yourself. -- Alphax Death to all

Re: Don't store your key on a flash drive! [was Re: GnuPG (GPG) Problem]

2006-08-21 Thread Alphax
mental and don't have the instant usability of a USB stick (/me mutters something about "The right tool for the right job"...) -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Descripti

Re: "sig!3" entry vs "sig!" entry on certain GnuPG keys from the PuTTY software site

2006-08-25 Thread Alphax
ig file - normally GnuPG will ask you for the certification level when you sign a key, but the default /can/ be used if the right options are set, and /will/ be used at the time of key generation. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down wit

Re: Help! Gnupg can't run in php program

2006-08-28 Thread Alphax
and line. Something funny going on with Apple Mail? -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users

Re: PGP 6.5.8 - PGP 7.7.4 compatability with gpg 1.4.2

2006-09-18 Thread Alphax
e command line or ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf (-- is removed for config files): Use --pgp6 or --pgp7 depending on which version of PGP they are using. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key:

Re: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 8

2006-09-19 Thread Alphax
e relevant instructions and files at http://blueness.port5.com/gpgcvs/ based on the trial-and-error that a number of people went through to get "native" building on W32 to work. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: ht

Re: DSA2

2006-09-21 Thread Alphax
he signature packet used in a clearsigned message is... I haven't looked at the "working draft" of the RFC but hopefully it's a lot clearer than the published version. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical impera

Re: DSA2

2006-09-24 Thread Alphax
eserved for Elliptic Curve 19 - Reserved for ECDSA 20 - Elgamal (Encrypt or Sign) 21 - Reserved for Diffie-Hellman (X9.42, as defined for IETF-S/MIME) 100 to 110 - Private/Experimental algorithm. -- Alphax D

Re: DSA2

2006-09-24 Thread Alphax
Qed wrote: > On 09/24/2006 05:08 PM, Alphax wrote: >>>> And therefore, even better, what is the present status of adding to >>>> GnuPG an "official" ECC keys support? >>> ECC are not part in RFC2440 nor there's a plan to include them. >> Yo

Re: Create a key without subkey?

2006-10-01 Thread Alphax
out the key? You probably want "gpg --expert --gen-key", select "(7) RSA (set your own capabilities)", and to set "Sign, encrypt, certify". -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com

Re: Logo suggestions

2006-10-03 Thread Alphax
re not just for the upper left corner of but > are needed in suitable versions for print as well. So yes, logos should be available at high resolutions. One easy way to ensure this is to create them in vector form, eg. as an SVG file. --

Re: Howto add ssh keys to .gnupg/sshcontrol?

2006-10-09 Thread Alphax
y? > I assume you mean fingerprint? ssh-keygen -l [-f input_keyfile] -l Show fingerprint of specified public key file. Private RSA1 keys are also supported. For RSA and DSA keys ssh-keygen tries to find the matching public key file and prints its fingerprint. -- Al

Re: GPG Outlook Plug-In and Signatures

2006-10-12 Thread Alphax
correct this? Or, is the expected behavior? > HTML + OpenPGP = FAIL. In English: HTML screws up OpenPGP. You don't want it. There are other reasons why you don't want HTML anyway but I won't go into them here. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Do

Re: GPG Outlook Plug-In and Signatures

2006-10-13 Thread Alphax
ients /may/ handle it, but you'd have to actually try it to be certain. Such a test should be conducted off-list in order to avoid flames for an HTML posting. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g si

Re: Key problem

2006-10-13 Thread Alphax
p availible, the error is > in all backups... > What version of GPG/PGP did you create your key/backups with? Try using that version to recover your key. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g si

Re: GPG and PGP Compatibility

2006-10-17 Thread Alphax
ay integration, and let you use a .pgp extension. I've filed an RFE at <http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15442>. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g sig

Re: GPG and PGP Compatibility

2006-10-18 Thread Alphax
Alphax wrote: > I've filed an RFE at > <http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15442>. > Well, apparantly it's already doable: > You can set this with the following two preferences in about:config (or in > Thunderbird via Pre

Re: decrypt problem

2006-10-21 Thread Alphax
that the file > had not been manipulated in the meantime. > > Any help is very much appreciated because this is a backup file. > You could try the --ignore-mdc-error option and if it's an ASCII armored file the --ignore-crc-error option. No guarantees though... --

Re: How to enable a block cipher or hash algorithm for a keypair?

2006-11-05 Thread Alphax
key for user: "Person (comment) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" 2048-bit RSA key, ID 0xDEADBEEF, created 2006-01-01 Enter passphrase: Command> quit Save changes? (y/N) y HTH, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tiny

Re: GnuPG 2.0

2006-11-13 Thread Alphax
ness reason ? Or ideological ? > As I understand, technological: the structures used in GPG2 simply don't exist in W32-land. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signa

Re: Two servers...one KeyPair

2006-11-29 Thread Alphax
to copy the random-seed file! -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-use

Re: Two servers...one KeyPair

2006-11-29 Thread Alphax
Henry Bremridge wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:20:06PM +1030, Alphax wrote: > >> That advice is seriously flawed. You do *not* want to copy the >> random-seed file! >> > Just out of interest: why? > As someone a lot smarter than me pointed out in a message

Re: Importing my keys fails

2006-11-30 Thread Alphax
bothered explaining, here are some links that will do it for me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html http://sixdemonbag.org/cryptofaq.html -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperati

Re: Logo ballot reminder

2006-11-30 Thread Alphax
I saw something weird where moving entries around didn't preserve the order that you had put things in... I ended up writing out all the option numbers on scraps of paper and shuffling them around until they were in the order I wanted :) -- Alphax Death to all fanatic

Re: authenticate flag

2006-12-15 Thread Alphax
2440) and a hex editor; alternatively, you could add a subkey with this capability (gpg --expert --edit 0x, addkey, , 7, A, Q). HTH, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description:

Re: gnupg clearsigning question

2006-12-28 Thread Alphax
o even if you hacked around the > timestamp problem, the signature would not match. RSA signatures do > not contain random data. > Err, I thought it was the other way around, which is why RSA signatures are bigger than DSA signatures... or is the RSA signature packaging-thing s

Re: Symmetric encypher with private key decypher

2007-01-22 Thread Alphax
k I sort of get what you are trying to do here: random key -> encrypt data w/ random key | V encrypt key w/ public key ... which is actually what GPG does with bog-standard public key encryption! Or do you want something else? -- Alphax Death to all fan

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