Questions from a newbie

2006-12-05 Thread Hardeep Singh
Hi All I need to travel a lot and send emails/proposals on the go. Mostly I just carry my docs on a pendrive, rarely also carrying a laptop. So even though I have known PGP for quite a long time and I tried my hand at it, also at thawte, I never took it seriously since PGP needs to be installed

sshd authentication problem with gpg-agent and OpenPGP card

2006-12-05 Thread Joerg Schmitz-Linneweber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! I recently found a problem when using OpenPGP cards with gpg-agent in combination with ssh/sshd. Technical details follows: - --- snip --- gpg-agent --version gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.0.0 - --- snip ---

Re: Questions from a newbie

2006-12-05 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Hardeep Singh wrote: 1. While creating the key, I noticed RSA is sign only. Does it mean an RSA key cannot be used to encrypt? No. I use a set of RSA keys to encrypt and sign data. All that it means is you need to create your set of encryption keys in a separate step from creating your

Re: Questions from a newbie

2006-12-05 Thread Adam Gould
Hardeep Singh wrote: 1. While creating the key, I noticed RSA is sign only. Does it mean an RSA key cannot be used to encrypt? Why so - even RSA is now in public domain I believe. PGP (the free version) also allows RSA keys. No, it does not mean that you *can't* use RSA to encrypt. You would

Re: adding passphrases to gpg-agent

2006-12-05 Thread Alex Mauer
Werner Koch wrote: For example, you don't need to use ssh-add every time after starting the agent. You do it only once and gpg-agent will store the entire key on disk and no just in memeory as ssh-agent does. Is it possible to control/disable this behavior? I prefer to keep my ssh keys

Re: adding passphrases to gpg-agent

2006-12-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is it possible to control/disable this behavior? I prefer to keep my ssh keys only on a USB disk, and not have them copied to any machine on which I happen to load them. Make a ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ a symlink to your USB disk.

Problem building 2.0.1

2006-12-05 Thread Victor Escobar
Hi all, I am having a problem with configure. It doesn't recognise that I have these libraries already installed (which I do, and all the latest versions). I'm using OSX 10.4.8... - configure: *** *** You need libgpg-error to build this program. ** This library is for example available at

encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread Eray Aslan
Hi, How can I make sure that all the emails in my Sent folder are encrypted and can't be read without my private key? In other words, I want my email in my Sent folder to be encrypted even though the email sent on the wire is plain text. Encrypt to self option only works if I send an encrypted

Re: encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Eray Aslan wrote: How can I make sure that all the emails in my Sent folder are encrypted and can't be read without my private key? In other words, I want my email in my Sent folder to be encrypted even though the email sent on the wire is plain text. This is not a task for GnuPG. This is a

Re: encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread Eray Aslan
On Tue, December 5, 2006 9:03 pm, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Eray Aslan wrote: How can I make sure that all the emails in my Sent folder are encrypted and can't be read without my private key? In other words, I want my email in my Sent folder to be encrypted even though the email sent on the

Re: encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread Qed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 05/12/06 20:03, Robert J. Hansen wrote: How can I make sure that all the emails in my Sent folder are encrypted and can't be read without my private key? In other words, I want my email in my Sent folder to be encrypted even though the

Re: Problem building 2.0.1

2006-12-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am having a problem with configure. It doesn't recognise that I have these libraries already installed (which I do, and all the latest versions). I'm using OSX 10.4.8... You need to make sure that the correct libraries are found. For

Re: encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Eray Aslan wrote: Surely there must be a better way. These all require admin access to the IMAP server. The software already does what I want some of the time (when I send the recipient encrypted email). I just want it to do it all the time. There isn't. If you want a program that does

Re: encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:30:22PM -0600, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Also remember that OpenPGP is a wire protocol. The protocol is not meant for mass storage. Sure, you can use GnuPG to encrypt files, but once you start dealing with large numbers of them you're generally going to be better

Re: encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David Shaw wrote: I must disagree with this. OpenPGP is not solely a wire protocol. I probably should have said 'primarily'. It wasn't my intent to give the impression it was exclusively a wire protocol. The nice thing about using OpenPGP as an archival primitive is that each encrypted file

Re: encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:52:56PM -0600, Robert J. Hansen wrote: David Shaw wrote: I must disagree with this. OpenPGP is not solely a wire protocol. I probably should have said 'primarily'. It wasn't my intent to give the impression it was exclusively a wire protocol. The nice thing

Christmas is upon us again.

2006-12-05 Thread Robert J. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Whether you're secular or religious, atheist or devout, I think we can all agree that the time of the year known as Christmas will soon be upon us. This is historically a time for personal reflection and charitable giving. We reflect on how

Re: encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread Todd Zullinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eray Aslan wrote: Surely there must be a better way. These all require admin access to the IMAP server. The software already does what I want some of the time (when I send the recipient encrypted email). I just want it to do it all the time.

Re: Problem building 2.0.1

2006-12-05 Thread Victor Escobar
Walter, thank you for this tip. I'm such an idiot: /usr/local/bin was not in my path -- DOH! :( However, now I'm getting the following error during make: /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _gpg_error_from_syserror collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kbxutil] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving

Re: Christmas is upon us again.

2006-12-05 Thread Randy Burns
It's a great idea. A more direct link is: https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/donate Randy --- Robert J. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether you're secular or religious, atheist or devout, I think we can all agree that the time of the year known as Christmas will soon be upon

Re: Problem building 2.0.1

2006-12-05 Thread Charly Avital
Werner Koch wrote the following on 12/5/06 3:10 PM: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am having a problem with configure. It doesn't recognise that I have these libraries already installed (which I do, and all the latest versions). I'm using OSX 10.4.8... You need to

Re: Problem building 2.0.1

2006-12-05 Thread Charly Avital
Werner, My version of libtool is Apple Computer, Inc. version cctools-622.5 Sorry for the omission, Charly ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: encrypt the sent folder

2006-12-05 Thread Eray Aslan
Todd Zullinger wrote: Eray Aslan wrote: Surely there must be a better way. These all require admin access to the IMAP server. The software already does what I want some of the time (when I send the recipient encrypted email). I just want it to do it all the time. This doesn't like an