Re: Cannot decrypt this file for the life of me

2006-06-02 Thread Raphaƫl Poss
webdevlv schreef: I am a complete newbie to GPG so bare with. I have a gpg encrypted file and two .asc files... file_sec.asc and file.asc (pubilc and secret key? I have no clue what the terminology is). I also have a passphrase that needs to be used. Ok, I understand your issue. The bits

Re: Signing vs. encrypting was: Cipher v public key

2006-06-02 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:33:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com wrote on Thu Jun 1 11:46:48 CEST 2006 : While I prefer gnupg to pgp myself, I did just happen to see a reference to pgp command line today the cost is *astronomical* have played around

Re: GnuPG asks for confirmation...

2006-06-02 Thread Laurent Jumet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello ! Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is someone sending an encrypted message to this list? It's not encrypted. It's just signed and armored. Doesn't your mail client automatically display this for you? Many mail clients will

Re: GnuPG asks for confirmation...

2006-06-02 Thread markus reichelt
* Laurent Jumet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many mail clients will assume that any GPG message is encrypted and prompt for a passphrase prior to invoking GPG. Are you sure? Security wouldn't be compromised if passphrase is given to anything else then gpg? F.e. mutt itself asks for

Re: GnuPG asks for confirmation...

2006-06-02 Thread Todd Zullinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Brown wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:59:54PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: engage wrote: Why is someone sending an encrypted message to this list? It's not encrypted. It's just signed and armored. Doesn't your mail client

Re: GnuPG Smartcard and Authentication Key

2006-06-02 Thread Volker Dormeyer
* On Sun, 28 May 2006 23:12:34 +0200, * Volker Dormeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Sun, 28 May 2006 16:30:55 -0400, * David Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:24:14PM +0200, Volker Dormeyer wrote: Hello all, recently I received a message which is encrypted

Error generating new keys on Windows with gnupg 1.4.3

2006-06-02 Thread Jee Kay
Whenever I try to generate a new secret key on Windows with gnupg 1.4.3, I get the following output immediately following the second request for my passphrase: gpg: NOTE: you should run 'diskperf -y' to enable the disk statistics A few seconds after that, a Windows error box pops up with this

Re: Error generating new keys on Windows with gnupg 1.4.3

2006-06-02 Thread Zach Himsel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/2/2006 6:24 PM, Jee Kay wrote: Whenever I try to generate a new secret key on Windows with gnupg 1.4.3, I get the following output immediately following the second request for my passphrase: gpg: NOTE: you should run 'diskperf -y' to enable

Re: GnuPG asks for confirmation...

2006-06-02 Thread engage
On Thursday 01 June 2006 08:59 pm, Todd Zullinger wrote: engage wrote: Why is someone sending an encrypted message to this list? It's not encrypted. It's just signed and armored. Doesn't your mail client automatically display this for you? No. I keep getting prompted for my passphrase for