Re: Can't import private key to GnuPG 2.1.1 on Windows 8 x64
<jes...@graffen.dk> writes: > I’ve been having the same problem. No solution yet ☹ > > I think it's fixed on 2.1.8! -- Hideki Saito OpenPGP Key: http://hidekisaito.com/aff2e40b.txt 1066 3928 7B0B E7CD A0CB 3686 1FDF D937 AFF2 E40B http://hidekisaito.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Can't import private key to GnuPG 2.1.1 on Windows 8 x64
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Also I'd like to add that this seems to affect when generating new key as well. Here's the log below. (Seen on Windows 8.1 on x64) It prompts for passphrases, however gives up on me with the mesage below after continuing after entering passphrases: gpg: agent_genkey failed: End of file Key generation failed: End of file What left on Windows event viewer is consistent with what Jesper stated earlier. 2015-01-21 15:53:08 gpg-agent[404] listening on socket 'C:/Users/hsaito/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/S.gpg-agent' 2015-01-21 15:53:08 gpg-agent[404] gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.1.1 started 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] handler 0x2 for fd 320 started 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - OK Pleased to meet you 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - RESET 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - OK 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - OPTION allow-pinentry-notify 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - OK 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - OPTION agent-awareness=2.1.0 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - OK 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - AGENT_ID 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - ERR 67109139 Unknown IPC command GPG Agent 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - RESET 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - OK 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - GENKEY 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - S INQUIRE_MAXLEN 1024 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - INQUIRE KEYPARAM 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - D (genkey(rsa(nbits 4:2048))) 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - END 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] starting a new PIN Entry 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: connection to PIN entry established 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - INQUIRE PINENTRY_LAUNCHED 2920 2015-01-21 15:53:10 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - END 2015-01-21 15:53:16 gpg-agent[404] starting a new PIN Entry 2015-01-21 15:53:16 gpg-agent[404] DBG: connection to PIN entry established 2015-01-21 15:53:16 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - INQUIRE PINENTRY_LAUNCHED 5744 2015-01-21 15:53:16 gpg-agent[404] DBG: chan_0140 - END 2015-01-21 15:53:20 gpg-agent[404] S2K calibration: 4904960 - 93ms - -- Hideki Saito OpenPGP Key: http://hidekisaito.com/aff2e40b.txt 1066 3928 7B0B E7CD A0CB 3686 1FDF D937 AFF2 E40B http://hidekisaito.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIiBAEBCAAMBQJUwD2yBYMSzAMAAAoJEOIIPMPrC7kZ8mUP/0K0aiK6FYVYQdgA l14UknEmmZJ7T5sRCaii/2JITNS9UIMjEx14fGkHkA7WY5bFxg+sTIDc7roZBaM5 DcBqE+T0epSQoM/a0yLce9/usx2L4iDOtk/Zd+0XPAOfDraKSMAlrtADQ+se53lg jE3mIF19dDVNBjfHc46FYbhtEWlQ2Fyrk51OQlpfNRnndjPhMld9+ciS0TDgW2mP XTj7s2t2VJsNjhI1XPlVTK4PckEUWXMYfB1hKFznZIYTcj37oBEVuZ0peIbj3c0H pCbKxaREm4UqhiFjIwcXdk0KbycgQ1jPR2EQNdv/t+lczb8xv/6f7ZgUeeUWs79k +s9ZwU6v0mdHWLkhmXO4GRs32Hq26ojF8alcFjQ/i16Pr6bmcaH81WNl8Y2fneqF U/2s6924c43xEJG5diCShlyR0LqBW1NN8SddciIlXw70uXCirEPalbngmHornDj5 KYEt5r660qGJutxxr4RzC45MPr/gKIfi/ISpsXqF1OZ/87j0r6p3BUipN1P4lU8y v2Ycbz5ugjiMRGnYVwdr3WkpAkLqzDenzKRF4drmuTt4HKtcy/7kOUXEBVlRDTPu COuO/cBvs2/PydzB2QKfeVf2IUElWoNGWUpaLH8UbMKSj6+fUls8IhRl0+HBNzuL hBwD/CUm859cW+Ozr+vZuLOnAR7X =vqRZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Anonymous Receipient is not compatible with ECC?
Hi I have attempted to use anonymous recipient with ECDH key on 2.1, however, it gives me the following: gpg: encrypted with ECDH key, ID gpg: decryption failed: No secret key I can, however, pass --try-secret-key with the appropriate key to force it to decrypt, but it seems like when it tries to decrypt ECC keys that pointing to 0x, it seems to interpret it literally the message intended to that key ID. -- Hideki Saito OpenPGP Key: http://hidekisaito.com/aff2e40b.txt 1066 3928 7B0B E7CD A0CB 3686 1FDF D937 AFF2 E40B http://hidekisaito.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: [Announce] 0x10 years of protecting privacy
Hello Happy 16th birthday to GnuPG! I have translated version of this document: http://gnupg.hclippr.com/16th-announce.html Cheers, On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: Hi, me lacking the time to write an update of the 10 Years of GnuPG [2], Sam Tuke was kind enough to draft this: 16 Years of protecting privacy ══ Today marks 16 years since the first release of GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). In that time the project has grown from being a hacker’s hobby into one of the world’s most critical anti-surveillance tools. Today GnuPG stands at the front line of the battle between invasive surveillance and civil liberties. “Time has proven Free Software [1] to be the most trustworthy defender against companies and governments seeking to undermine citizen privacy” said Werner Koch, GnuPG Founder and Lead Developer. “Although funding our work has not always been easy, the need for universally accessible privacy tools has never been more apparent”. Some of the world’s top security specialists are now counted among GnuPG users, including Bruce Schneier, Jacob Appelbaum, and Phil Zimmerman, inventor of PGP. This summer the world learned of the extent of Government spying thanks to whistleblowers and journalists communicating using GnuPG encrypted emails. Market leading servers from Red Hat and Debian have built their reputation for security on the foundation of GnuPG-verified software. “The success of GnuPG’s first crowdfunding campaign, which received 90% of it’s target in 24 hours, shows a fresh willingness among users to support GnuPG in it’s 16th year, and points to new opportunities for the project in future” said Sam Tuke, GnuPG Campaign Manager. “The release of GnuPG 2.1 and the launch of a newly designed website later this year will bring GnuPG and its clients for Windows, Mac, Gnu/Linux, and Android to new audiences”. Over the years GnuPG has kept up to date with new algorithms, such as Elliptic Curve Cryptography, and reactive to new threats, such as key extraction via acoustic monitoring, which was announced two days ago by researchers as GnuPG updates were released, in coordination with developers. Members remain confident of the future of GnuPG and look forward to facing the privacy threats of tomorrow with community support. [1] http://fsfe.org/freesoftware/basics/4freedoms.en.html [2] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2007q4/000268.html -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___ Gnupg-announce mailing list gnupg-annou...@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-announce -- Hideki Saito hide...@gmail.com OpenPGP Key: http://hidekisaito.com/aff2e40b.txt 1066 3928 7B0B E7CD A0CB 3686 1FDF D937 AFF2 E40B http://goo.gl/VRvgfI ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Japanese localization issue for designated revoker message
Hello, I have a Japanese localization issue to report. Currently, Japanese localization for designated revoker says the following この鍵は、DSA鍵 f...@example.comによって失効されたようです Which reads This key has been revoked by DSA key f...@example.com While in English version it says: This key may be revoked by DSA key f...@example.com Therefore this line should read: この鍵は、%s鍵%sによって失効可能です。 I've fixed this error and bundle against master branch as follows: http://www.mediafire.com/file/fmf0mf6u7n6n66x/designator_ja_fix.bundle Thank you. Hideki Saito hide...@gmail.com Google+: http://goo.gl/dVU2q Facebook: http://goo.gl/RV5C8 http://goo.gl/FDeAw ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Fips compliance
Am newbie to gpg encryption. My question is Is gpg FIPS compliance. A quick search reveals its not. http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2007-January/030159.html Where as in this link its states that libgcrypt is FIPS complaint and its need to be put in that mode explicitly. http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/Enabling-FIPS-mode.html Since libgcrypt library is being used by gpg tool. can we say that gpg is fips complaint. As far as I know, FIPS requirements are quite specific. Library may have been implemented and complaints to FIPS requirement -- but all components would need to be complaints to FIPS to be able to call it FIPS complaint. (and I don't have answer for that...) If your question is if GnuPG is FIPS *certified* then answer is probably no, unless someone has submitted some particular version of GnuPG for certification and passed it. Hideki Saito hide...@gmail.com Buzz: hide...@gmail.com Wave: hide...@googlewave.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Windows 1.4.10 Problem?
Hello, I'm just trying GnuPG 1.4.10 for Windows now, and I'm seeing this odd problem. When I try to do gpg --edit-key mykeyid, I see something like the following: gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.10; Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Secret key is available. This key was revoked on 0ﾛM by (null) key (null) This key may be revoked by ﾈ膈 key (null) 3L32ﾈ/DSA created: 摂M revoked: 0ﾛM usage: ﾛM gpg: fatal: WriteConsole failed: このコマンドを実行するのに十分な記憶域がありま せん。 secmem usage: 1408/1408 bytes in 2/2 blocks of pool 1408/32768 The error message next to WriteConsole failed says There's not enough storage (or memory?) to execute this command. Also something like following causes gpg to crash when I type in some characters. gpg -o temp.txt -c ﾊ L Anything I can try to fix this? -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Windows 1.4.10 Problem?
And here's screenshot just in case: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2627732l=0243cc15e8id=661728650 Another thing I've tested was to rollback 1.4.9 to recreate problem, with no luck, and replacing iconv.dll from 1.4.9 didn't help either, so it seems like definitely problem started happening on 1.4.10... -- Hideki Saito 2009/9/3 Hideki Saito hide...@gmail.com Hello, I'm just trying GnuPG 1.4.10 for Windows now, and I'm seeing this odd problem. When I try to do gpg --edit-key mykeyid, I see something like the following: gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.10; Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Secret key is available. This key was revoked on 0ﾛM by (null) key (null) This key may be revoked by ﾈ膈 key (null) 3L32ﾈ/DSA created: 摂M revoked: 0ﾛM usage: ﾛM gpg: fatal: WriteConsole failed: このコマンドを実行するのに十分な記憶域がありま せん。 secmem usage: 1408/1408 bytes in 2/2 blocks of pool 1408/32768 The error message next to WriteConsole failed says There's not enough storage (or memory?) to execute this command. Also something like following causes gpg to crash when I type in some characters. gpg -o temp.txt -c ﾊ L Anything I can try to fix this? -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Changes in 1.4.10
Just thought of something here... $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.10rc1 NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION! It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be used in a production environment or with production keys! Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Doesn't this (C) 2008 supposed to say (C) 2009? -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Paperkey 1.0 released
Hello, Paperkey is great, and I've put up some Japanese introduction of the tool. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/unsignedint/20090122/1232679511 One thing I saw on Windows version is that piping doesn't work. It seems like it corrupt the output when redirection is used, so this could be something to do with the operating system, but just reporting the issue. (Earlier GnuPG on Windows also had same problem, for example, gpg --export foobar would cause corrupted data on foobar, not sure it's related.) So on Windows, instead of doing, gpg --export-secret-key 51A00A8E | paperkey --output output.txt I have to do gpg --output output.sec --export-secret-key 51A00A8E paperkey --secret-key output.sec --output output.txt Thank you. -- Hideki Saito 2009/1/22 David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:52:48PM -0600, Kevin Hilton wrote: Thanks for this release. Reading the explanation on the website: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ got me thinking. Is there an explanation or description of all the metadata that is contained within the secret key? Yes. See RFC 4880, sections 5.5.3 and 11.2. What makes paperkey possible is that in OpenPGP, a secret key is actually the same thing as a public key with a few extra fields tacked on (the ones specified in 5.5.3). Another nice side effect of this is that you can transform any secret key into a public key. In fact, GPG will do this for you - try importing a secret key that you don't already have a public key for. GPG will import the secret key, and then create a public key for it automatically. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Making GnuPG ISO/IEC 19790 compliant
I did look for one, but no... Hideki Saito wrote: Just read on IPA (which is Information Technology Promotion Agency in Japan) is now calling for proposal for making GnuPG ISO/IEC 19790 compliant. http://www.ipa.go.jp/software/open/ossc/2008/gpg/koubo2.html Looks like what they are doing is design bidding. Wonder how this will go... Have a link in English? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Making GnuPG ISO/IEC 19790 compliant
I will translate it, if enough people are interested knowing what it all about... * Hideki Saito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did look for one, but no... you could give it your best shot :) ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Making GnuPG ISO/IEC 19790 compliant
Just read on IPA (which is Information Technology Promotion Agency in Japan) is now calling for proposal for making GnuPG ISO/IEC 19790 compliant. http://www.ipa.go.jp/software/open/ossc/2008/gpg/koubo2.html Looks like what they are doing is design bidding. Wonder how this will go... ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: can GPG help me with SPAM?
Hello Ramon, GnuPG really won't help you there, unless person other-side has way to verify your signature. As GnuPG is just a standard command line program, technologically speaking, as long as the mail server allows, it should be able to sign the E-mail automatically. So it is probably technically possible, however, if it is useful or not would be another question... -- Hideki Saito Hi, I'm receiving a lot of spam in my old email account... I'm even receiving emails with my own old email as sender!! :-( Is it a way to tell the sysadmin of this email provider to add some kind of scripts for automatic sign all the outgoing emails (in the name of the department)? Or maybe the solution has nothing to do with GPG? Thanks ___ ramon ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Naming of GnuPG
I think this is well appropriate in backend situation, however, GnuPG intended for general users. I often advocate use of GnuPG, and OpenPGP to people, and, from that experience, I think making this clear makes it much easier for people to adopt it. (it won't be necessary showstopper for them, but then I think it wouldn't hurt...) Frankly, I do not see the problem. The BInd folks are running Bind 8 and Bind 9 for a long time already and not long ago Bind 4 was also activly maintained. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Naming of GnuPG
Hello, How will version number convention will continue, as there are 1.4.x and 2.0.x lines concurrently running? 1.4.x line will be evolving on its own separately from 2.0.x line, right? Just curious, because now it is at 1.4.9 and 2.0.9... From user's perspective, I think 1.4.x should be called something like GnuPG Standalone, instead of having two different version numbers... Well, I guess some programs go like 1.4.10, 2.0.10, etc., so this may not be relevant at all! Cheers, -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Anti-Tempest Fonts, Where?
Makes me curious, how relevant is it these days, especially with age of (presumably) lower emission LCD screen? On Feb 5, 2008 11:00 AM, David Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:16:23AM +0100, George Orwell wrote: man gpg the above cmd mentions anti tempest fonts. what does this mean exactly? where are the anti-tempest fonts? i've searched the net for them and cannot find them. the only mention of soft tempest fonts were within a .zip containing image files claimed to be for example only. do tempest resistant fonts exist? No. Or at least, not any longer. There was a font package available a few years ago that was an offshoot of some work done by Markus Kuhn and Ross Anderson at the University of Cambridge. More recently, they improved the attack enough that the fonts were no longer effective. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/softtempest-faq.html I'll update the manual so it does not reference the fonts any longer. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
GnuPG wikia
I've started up GnuPG wiki on Wikia. http://gnupg.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page I will be posting contents from my Japanese GnuPG page shortly... -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: [Slightly OT] Just to celebrate GnuPG's 10th birthday!
Free Cake license! The picture, BTW, is licensed under Creative Commons, although, I'm not 100% sure if it is appropriate. (it uses GnuPG logo.) On Dec 21, 2007 12:16 PM, Ingo Klöcker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 December 2007, Werner Koch wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsaito/2125495667/ Yum-Yum. The question is just how we cut the slices for all users. That depends on the license of the cake. If it's released under a Free Cake license, there's no need to cut the cake into slices. ;-) Regards, Ingo -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: [Announce] GnuPG's 10th birthday
Hi Werner, May I translate this into Japanese? Cheers, -- Hideki Saito On Dec 20, 2007 1:55 AM, Werner Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Short History of the GNU Privacy Guard It's been a decade now that the very first version of the GNU Privacy Guard [0] has been released. This very first version was not yet known under the name of GnuPG but dubbed g10 as a reference on the German constitution article on freedom of telecommunication (Grundgesetz Artikel 10) and as a pun on the G-10 law which allows the secret services to bypass these constitutional guaranteed freedoms. Version 0.0.0 released on December 20th 1997 [1], was a barely working replacement of PGP avoiding all patented algorithm by using Elgamal and Blowfish instead of RSA and IDEA. It was prominently marked as a test version but nevertheless included most of the features of the current GnuPG. The data format however was not compatible with OpenPGP but oriented towards the PGP 2 format with a few extensions (e.g. to allow streaming of data). The OpenPGP working group was founded back in fall 1997 and I learned a bit to late about it to build g10 according to the then existing draft. For copyright reasons it was practically not possible to reverse engineer the format used by PGP-5, so the establishment of the OpenPGP WG was the right thing at the right time. Before talking about GnuPG we need to go some more years back in history: To help political activists Phil Zimmermann published a software called Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) in 1991. PGP was designed as an easy to use encryption tool with no backdoors and disclosed source code. PGP was indeed intended to be cryptographically strong and not just pretty good; however it had a couple of inital bugs, most of all a home designed cipher algorithm. With the availability of the source code a community of hackers (Branko Lankester, Colin Plumb, Derek Atkins, Hal Finney, Peter Gutmann and others) helped him to fix these flaws and a get a solid version 2 out. Soon after that the trouble started. As in many counties the use or export of cryptographic devices and software was also strongly restricted in the USA. Only weak cryptography was generally allowed. PGP was much stronger and due to the Usenet and the availability of FTP servers and BBSs, PGP accidently leaked out of the country and soon Phil was sued for unlicensed munitions export. Those export control laws were not quite up to the age of software with the funny effect that exporting the software in printed form seemed not to be restricted. MIT Press thus published a book with the PGP source code which was then scanned outside the USA to form the base of PGP-2i (i for international). Since then that version was used widely. The criminal investigations against Phil ended in 1996 and he founded PGP Inc to write PGP-5. The first public release was done in spring 1997. The same year at the 39th IETF meeting at Munich in August Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas asked the IETF to setup a working group to publish a standard for the protocol used by PGP-5 under the name OpenPGP. The main drive behind this was to allow widespread use of strong encryption even if at some point the new company would decide to stop selling and supporting PGP. As it turned out PGP Inc was acquired by Network Associates just a few months later and in 2002 this company actually ceased support and development of PGP (though the PGP product was later continued by the new PGP Corporation). Also often claimed to be Free Software, PGP has never fulfilled the requirements for it: PGP-5 is straight proprietary software; the availability of the source code alonedoes not make it free. PGP-2 has certain restrictions on commercial use [2] and thus puts restrictions on the software which makes it also non-free. Another problem with PGP-2 is that it requires the use of the patented RSA and IDEA algorithms. The patent on RSA was only valid in the USA but the patent on IDEA was and is still valid [3] in most countries. Although the GNU project listed a requirement for a PGP replacement for some years on its task list, it was not possible to start implementing it as long as patents on all public key algorithms were valid. That changed when in April 1997 the basic patent on public key algorithms expired (the Diffie-Hellman US patent 4200770) and finally in August when the broader Hellman-Merkle patent (4218582) expired. A month later, at the Individual-Network Betriebstagung at Aachen [4], Richard Stallman continued his talk with a BoF session where he asked the European hackers to start implementing public key software. The arms trafficker laws of the USA prohibited the GNU project to write such software in their country or even by US citizens working abroad. Thus he told the European hackers that they are in the unique
[Slightly OT] Just to celebrate GnuPG's 10th birthday!
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Windows commandline abnormality
This is something I started observing on gpg4win 1.1.0. It seems like somehow, it is not handling interactive sessions. For example; C:\gpg --edit-key hideki C:\gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7; Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. Secret key is available. pub 1024D/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048g/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E [ultimate] (1). * Invalid command (try help) Invalid command (try help) Invalid command (try help) Command and keep entering causes. C:\ pub 1024D/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048g/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E [ultimate] (1). * Command C:\ pub 1024D/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048g/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E [ultimate] (1). * Command C:\ Type in exit can pass that entry to the shell can cause shell to end instead of exiting out of key edit mode. If I do gpg --version, this is what I get. Notice some how it is returning to shell once the command is issued. C:\ prompt followed by verson information does not get displayed until I press enter. C:\gpg --version C:\gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. Home: Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 C:\ This is perhaps another weird problem, but I see C:\gpg -sea C:\gpg: conflicting commands C:\ This always worked for me before. This is fresh reinstallation of the operating system so I doubt if there are any third party interference causing this. And there's nothing specified in gpg.conf. Anyone has idea what might be causing this, and is there any workaround I can do? Thank you. Hideki ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Update: Windows commandline abnormality
Just so I can make it clear, let me annotate where I pressed enter. (where [enter] is shown) This is something I started observing on gpg4win 1.1.0. It seems like somehow, it is not handling interactive sessions. For example; C:\gpg --edit-key hideki [enter] C:\gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7; Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. Secret key is available. pub 1024D/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048g/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E [ultimate] (1). * Invalid command (try help) Invalid command (try help) Invalid command (try help) Command and keep entering causes. C:\ [enter] pub 1024D/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048g/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E [ultimate] (1). * Command [enter] C:\ [enter] pub 1024D/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048g/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E [ultimate] (1). * Command [enter] C:\ [enter] Type in exit can pass that entry to the shell can cause shell to end instead of exiting out of key edit mode. If I do gpg --version, this is what I get. Notice some how it is returning to shell once the command is issued. C:\ prompt followed by verson information does not get displayed until I press enter. C:\gpg --version [enter] C:\gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. Home: Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 [enter] C:\ This is perhaps another weird problem, but I see C:\gpg -sea [enter] C:\gpg: conflicting commands [enter] C:\ This always worked for me before. This is fresh reinstallation of the operating system so I doubt if there are any third party interference causing this. And there's nothing specified in gpg.conf. Anyone has idea what might be causing this, and is there any workaround I can do? Thank you. Hideki ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Update: Windows commandline abnormality
I found the problem. The path as installed by gpg4win specifies c:\program files\gnu\gnupg\pub, and that binary somehow shows that behavior. Changing the path to c:\program files\gnu\gnupg\ solved that problem. (Copying the message to the gpg4win list, as well...) Just so I can make it clear, let me annotate where I pressed enter. (where [enter] is shown) This is something I started observing on gpg4win 1.1.0. It seems like somehow, it is not handling interactive sessions. For example; C:\gpg --edit-key hideki [enter] C:\gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7; Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. Secret key is available. pub 1024D/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048g/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E [ultimate] (1). * Invalid command (try help) Invalid command (try help) Invalid command (try help) Command and keep entering causes. C:\ [enter] pub 1024D/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048g/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E [ultimate] (1). * Command [enter] C:\ [enter] pub 1024D/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 2048g/ created: 2007-05-30 expires: 2007-06-02 usage: E [ultimate] (1). * Command [enter] C:\ [enter] Type in exit can pass that entry to the shell can cause shell to end instead of exiting out of key edit mode. If I do gpg --version, this is what I get. Notice some how it is returning to shell once the command is issued. C:\ prompt followed by verson information does not get displayed until I press enter. C:\gpg --version [enter] C:\gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. Home: Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 [enter] C:\ This is perhaps another weird problem, but I see C:\gpg -sea [enter] C:\gpg: conflicting commands [enter] C:\ This always worked for me before. This is fresh reinstallation of the operating system so I doubt if there are any third party interference causing this. And there's nothing specified in gpg.conf. Anyone has idea what might be causing this, and is there any workaround I can do? Thank you. Hideki ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: How do I read man pages on Win?
You can use Cygwin version of man command. I have PDF versions of those man pages made available on my website as well. http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA019487/gpg.pdf http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA019487/gpgv.pdf 2006/10/1, Daniel Lipkie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It appears just opening in NotePad/Wordpad works. Daniel -Original Message- From: Daniel Lipkie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 6:17 AM To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Cc: Daniel Lipkie Subject: How do I read man pages on Win? I'm rather new to gnu and just installed gpg 1.4.5. How do I read *.man pages in Windows XP? What do I have to install? I could not find this information in the FAQ and a Google search seemed to indicate installing emacs was the solution. Also. ...is there a way to search the archives for this group to find such information so I don't re-ask the obvious? Daniel Lipkie mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lipkie.com http://www.lipkie.com/ http://www.lipkie.com/glass http://www.lipkie.com/glass - wound glass beads http://www.lipkie.com/humor - items of possible interest ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Can not download GnuPG 1.4.5 compiled for Microsoft Windows
You can still download via HTTP. The following worked for me. http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32cli-1.4.5.exe 2006/10/1, Henk M. de Bruijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:09:33 -0700GMT (30-9-2006, 22:09 +0200, where I live), Daniel Lipkie wrote: DL I've tried clicking on FTP on page DL http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/index.html from both FireFox and DL IExplorer. I've tried opening a cmd window and doing ftp to ftp.gnupg.org DL and can't get a connection. Ping ftp.gnupg.org responds with 217.69.76.44. DL I have no problems opening ftp connection to other places on the web. DL What am I overlooking and doing wrong? It has been a long time since I DL downloaded GnuPG (i.e.. I'm using v 1.2.3 and would like to upgrade to DL 1.4.5). DL DL Daniel Lipkie DL mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DL ___ DL Gnupg-users mailing list DL Gnupg-users@gnupg.org DL http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users Confirmed, still is not working. -- Henk M. de Bruijn __ The Bat! Natural E-Mail System version 3.85.03 Pro on Windows XP SP2 Request-PGP: http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x6C9F6CE78C32408B Gossamer Spider Web of Trust http://www.gswot.org A progressive and innovative Web of Trust ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
GnuPG discussion chat
Hello, I've like to let you know that I have set up, as a part of GnuPG News Japan operation, the chat group on the service called Lingr. http://www.lingr.com/room/bmMry0UzI5W It is more or less on the topic, but might be nice and casual place for people to get quick answers to questions they may have. I've also setup English room as well, http://www.lingr.com/room/dnvEziIa6PE It works pretty well for webchat. Give it a try! -- Hideki Saito ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
