When encrypting with --symmetric, I would expect to get asked for the
password when decrypting but I am never prompted... why?
me$ gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 -v foo.txt
gpg: using cipher AES256
gpg: writing to `foo.txt.gpg'
me$ gpg foo.txt.gpg
gpg: AES256 encrypted data
gpg: encrypted
On Monday 25 of July 2011 17:45:16 Werner Koch wrote:
As it is not
possible to secretly read out the key you will almost always have the
opportunity to revoke the key before a damage is possible.
The key is also useful for decrypting past communication...
Regards,
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:26, andrewinfo...@gmail.com said:
When encrypting with --symmetric, I would expect to get asked for the
password when decrypting but I am never prompted... why?
Run
gpgconf --reload gpg-agent
before decryption to clear the passphrase cache.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:41, h...@qbs.com.pl said:
The key is also useful for decrypting past communication...
Well, you should have a backup of the decryption key. It is cheaper to
steal that backup than to crack the card.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen
Depends where you keep the backup.
(Excuse the top post -- Android)
(Mobile/Handy)
Am 26.07.2011 16:29 schrieb Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:41, h...@qbs.com.pl said:
The key is also useful for decrypting past commun...
Well, you should have a backup of the decryption
On 25 Jul 2011 at 20:12, Werner Koch wrote:
For the v1 card you may want to have a look at the flylogic.net blog; they
have lots of entries about different chips. There is no specific entry
about the v1 card iirc, but I once sent them a few cards and they told me
it would be easy to read it
Hi Daniel,
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote:
On 07/23/2011 07:04 PM, Marcio B. Jr. wrote:
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org
wrote:
So far, OTR adoption seems unjustifiable, really. I mean, it uses the
On 7/26/11 2:44 PM, Marcio B. Jr. wrote:
Are you aware that the purpose of OTR is to allow two parties to
communicate confidentially?
Right now, I'm trying to study OTR within some US Fifth Amendment
contexts. So I'll answer that in a later time.
It seems to be a straightforward yes or no
