First Time Setup Confusion

2008-05-28 Thread Carlos Williams
I am the email administrator for my small company and have never dealt with any kind of cryptographic software. I have several internal users on my email server (Postfix) who have the need to send encrypted email to trusted vendors so there will be some kind of public key exchange however I don't u

Re: First Time Setup Confusion

2008-05-29 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Hardeep Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Carlos > > Step 1 is to read this: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography > > Regards > Hardeep Thanks all. It appears I have a better understanding of how this works in general based on the online doc

Am I Missing Something?

2008-05-29 Thread Carlos Williams
Key does not expire at all Is this correct? (y/N) y Real name: Carlos Williams Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: You selected this USER-ID: "Carlos Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? O You need a Passphrase to protect your sec

Re: Am I Missing Something?

2008-05-29 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Charly Avital <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know which Thunderbird and Enigmail versions you are using, but > this should help (I am using the Macintosh version, but there shouldn't > be significant differences if you are using another platform): I am usi

Re: Am I Missing Something?

2008-06-04 Thread Carlos Williams
---- pub 1024D/C4B187CB 2008-05-29 uid Carlos Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 8446g/6B90B444 2008-05-29 ***I don't know if I should be publicly posting the info above...Is that bad to show in public?*** Anyways - Enigmail does not find my key. I

Re: Am I Missing Something?

2008-06-04 Thread Carlos Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Ongenae wrote: > You may give a try to FireGPG (an extension to Firefox) that allow to > use gpg in the Gmail interface... it's really easy > > http://getfiregpg.org/index.php?page=home&lang=en > > It will show if the mail are signed even if i

Trying to Understand Keys

2008-07-28 Thread Carlos Williams
Looking to create keys however I really would like to understand before I select a key which is best to use. Normally I would just select "default" when I don't know however I think in this case it would be wise to understand the difference between the options listed below... Anyone explain to me

Re: is gnupg user mailing list down?

2008-07-28 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Faramir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kunal Shah escribió: >> I am not getting my own messages or reply to any of my messages. > > It seems it is usual with gmail to don't be able to see your own > messages, at least, I have never been able to. It is a "feature" to

Publish Certificates

2008-08-18 Thread Carlos Williams
After I generate my GnuPG certificates on my system which is bound to my email address. What is the next step? Where do I export my public key at so that all I exchange keys with can verify myself? -- Man your battle stations... ___ Gnupg-users mailing

Re: Publish Certificates

2008-08-18 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Robert J. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gpg --keyserver x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --send-key > > > > > ... e.g., if your key ID was 0xDEADBEEF, you'd type > > gpg --keyserver x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --send-key 0xDEADBEEF Thanks for the fast and

Re: Publish Certificates

2008-08-18 Thread Carlos Williams
ta now compromised for posting this info publicly? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --list-keys [EMAIL PROTECTED] pub 1024D/8BF7AA16 2008-08-18 [expires: 2009-08-18] uid Carlos Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 2048g/FF202C9C 200

Re: Publish Certificates

2008-08-18 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Robert J. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your key ID is 0x8BF7AA16. > > You have not jeopardized your traffic by posting this, never fear. :) Thanks all! I was able to run the following command with no problems: ==

Re: Need help

2008-09-09 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:24 PM, David Koppenhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/9 Chaudhry, Tahir N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> How can we find out which version of software is installed. It is just a matter of opening a terminal window or command prompt based on your OS. You did not specify

Unable To Export My Public Key

2008-11-10 Thread Carlos Williams
It appears I can't export my key for some reason and was wondering if there is another method? tunafush:~# gpg --keyserver x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --send-key 0xFC7B6AB7 gpg: sending key FC7B6AB7 to hkp server pool.sks-keyservers.net ?: pool.sks-keyservers.net: Connection refused gpgkeys: H

GnuPG and PGP Compatibility

2008-11-11 Thread Carlos Williams
I am looking to see if I can export my GnuPG public key I created on my Linux machine here at work and exchange this with 15 users in the office who are using a licensed copy of PGP Desktop 9.9. All their 15 public keys were generated by the PGP software and I wanted to export my public key from GP

Revoke and Delete a Public Key

2008-11-12 Thread Carlos Williams
I created a public key as a test and wanted to get familiar with how GnuPG works however then I wanted to remove / delete the key. I followed the instructions on how to revoke the key: You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Carlos Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"

Key Format For Exchange

2008-11-18 Thread Carlos Williams
Myself and office mate just installed GnuPG on our Linux machines and generated a key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --list-keys /home/carloswill/.gnupg/pubring.gpg -- pub 1024D/7351884D 2008-11-14 uid Carlos

Re: Key Format For Exchange

2008-11-18 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:01 AM, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do: > gpg --export 7351884D > carlos-key.gpg > > He does: > gpg --import carlos-key.gpg So we both now appear to have each others public keys in our local PC's keyring. Now is there a way we both can send encrypted emai

Supported Formats

2008-11-20 Thread Carlos Williams
I had someone at a co-location (different network / domain) install a Verisign Class 1 Digital certification. I was able to share the Verisign cert with another user who has the same kind of class 1 certificate and we can now send encrypted and signed email back to each other fine. My question is n