Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-11 Thread John Clizbe
da...@gbenet.com wrote: insanely ridiculous amount of untrimmed quoted noise snipped Hello Sam, Most people are normal users of pgp - I suspect there are few secret government agents - not that they are likely to say so :) though some believe them to be everywhere. Secret agents may or

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-11 Thread Mark Rousell
On 10/06/2012 15:03, Sam Smith wrote: I wasn't going to say anything, but I had no idea what Mr. Koch was talking about with that finger stuff. I studied his email and the email header looking for clues. Couldn't decipher what he meant. Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:28:04 +0100 From:

RE: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-11 Thread Sam Smith
Hi. The GUI I like the best for GnuPG is GNU Privacy Assistant. It is gpa in synaptic. [sudo apt-get install gpa]. I don't know if GPA does encrypt/decrypt though (I use command line for most everything). Another option is the plugins for Seahorse (seahorse-plugins). You can add [sudo

RE: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-11 Thread Sam Smith
I tried every GUI I could find for GPG over the past 2 years. My absolute favorite is GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA). I do believe I have tried every GUI option there is for Windows and Ubuntu. Originally, I couldn't find anything I liked on Windows and consequently was forced to learn the

RE: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-11 Thread michael crane
On Mon, June 11, 2012 4:11 pm, Sam Smith wrote: I tried every GUI I could find for GPG over the past 2 years. My absolute favorite is GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA). I do believe I have tried every GUI option there is for Windows and Ubuntu. Originally, I couldn't find anything I liked on

RE: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-11 Thread Sam Smith
I did not mean to imply that all other GPG GUIs are no good. GnuPG Shell is a fine app and there is much to like about it. I did (if I remember correctly) have trouble figuring out how to use it to list signatures on keys. And how to sign keys. Overall, I found GPA to be a better experience.

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-11 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/12 15:36, Sam Smith wrote: Mr. Koch, can you (or anyone else) recommend a book that is good for novices like myself that covers GPG public keys and can help me learn how to verify identity based on the chain of trust (self-signatures

Re: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-11 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/06/12 13:15, . wrote: Does anyone have a GUI that will accomplish all key management and also provide for easy file encrypt/decrypt/verify signature etc, etc? You could try Kleopatra or GPA but Enigmail/Openpgp does all that the others can