Re: Random seed for symetric encryption

2006-01-17 Thread Nikolaus Rath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry Hertz Hobbit) writes: Now I wonder why GPG needs random data for symmetric encryption. Should I care about the message or not? And how can I make it disappear? The SHORT answer is, yes it does need random data for just doing symmetric encryption. Yes, you should

Re: Providing shell-completions for gpg, minor scripting issues

2006-01-17 Thread Axel Liljencrantz
On 1/16/06, Alphax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Axel Liljencrantz wrote: Hello, I'm currently writing a set of gpg-specific completions for the fish shell (http://roo.no-ip.org/fish). These completions already feature all the switches for gpg, and a description of each switch, usually the

Re: Random seed for symetric encryption

2006-01-17 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:06:18 +0100, Nikolaus Rath said: Yes, exactly. About 2 GB in 14000 files. You are running several concurrent gpg processes? [6] The exact message again (I lost it) that GPG gives you when the random fails. I don't have the exact message here at the moment, but I'm

Re: Does a secret key need to be signed?

2006-01-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Kurt Fitzner wrote: My question is, does a secret key actually need to be signed? Correct me if I'm wrong, but _secret_ keys are never selfsigned, at least not under normal circumstances... Perhaps it is allowed to sign it with a 0x1F but I'd have to look this up in the standard,... It

Re: Does a secret key need to be signed?

2006-01-17 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:32:54AM -0700, Kurt Fitzner wrote: I recently exported my key pair from GnuPG and imported it into PGP in order to get the user ids balanced between my public and secret keys. When I pulled the key pair back into GnuPG, I noticed that my secret key is now much