Re: pgp export private key with password

2014-01-28 Thread Uwe Brauer
David == David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com writes: However it seems that the application expects for some reason another a password during the import process. Interesting. I wonder why it does that - perhaps it stores the key unencrypted internally? What happens if you

Re: RFC3156: application/pgp-keys support enigmail, gnus etc

2014-01-28 Thread Uwe Brauer
Daniel == Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net writes: Hi Uwe-- I just implemented such a feature for gnus in Xemacs, but it seems that enigmail does not recognise the key! Does anybody know whether other MUA support this format? This seems like a question you'd

Configuring gpg-agent to run in Windows

2014-01-28 Thread Megan Winkler
I would like to decrypt files in batch mode using GPG2 on a Windows 7 machine.    I have GPG4Win, version 2.2.1 installed. I have so far been unable to make it work. I suspect I haven't configured the gpg-agent properly as I get the following error when I try to cache the passphrase:

old pgp2.6x keys imported in gpg (compile pgp 2.6)

2014-01-28 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello I have a problem to import my secret key into a iOS app called iPGmail. The problem is that of course the key is password protected and the app seem to have difficulties with the password. So I just deleted the password and then can import the secret key, but I don't like this

Re: old pgp2.6x keys imported in gpg (compile pgp 2.6)

2014-01-28 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Uwe Brauer o...@mat.ucm.es wrote: Hello I have a problem to import my secret key into a iOS app called iPGmail. The problem is that of course the key is password protected and the app seem to have difficulties with the password. So I just deleted the

Re: old pgp2.6x keys imported in gpg (compile pgp 2.6)

2014-01-28 Thread vedaal
On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Uwe Brauer o...@mat.ucm.es wrote: The cipher for the key protection is CAST5 However the key was originally generated with pgp 2.6.2 more than 10 years ago (yes I know it is only 1024 bit long and should not be used anymore), but could it be that such a

default (secret) key for gpg

2014-01-28 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello Finally I decided to generate a new 4096 keypair. Now gpg --list-keys tells me I have sec 1024R/93B61FDD 1998-09-17 uid Uwe Brauer o...@mat.ucm.es uid Uwe Brauer o...@btmpx1.mat.uni-bayreuth.de uid Uwe Brauer oub.oub@gmail.com uid

Re: old pgp2.6x keys imported in gpg (compile pgp 2.6)

2014-01-28 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/28/2014 03:37 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote: Hello I have a problem to import my secret key into a iOS app called iPGmail. The problem is that of course the key is password protected and the app seem to have difficulties with the password.

Re: old pgp2.6x keys imported in gpg (compile pgp 2.6)

2014-01-28 Thread Uwe Brauer
Kristian == Kristian Fiskerstrand kristian.fiskerstr...@sumptuouscapital.com writes: http://www.kfwebs.net/articles/article/42/GnuPG-2.0---IDEA-support #secure method=smime mode=sign cool, thanks! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Non email addresses in UID

2014-01-28 Thread Leo Gaspard
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:08:16PM +, Steve Jones wrote: [...] Finally there's the possibility of explicit verification, if someone sends me a challenge and I publish that challenge's signature on my blog then that verifies that I am in control of that private key and can publish to

Re: default (secret) key for gpg

2014-01-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:15, o...@mat.ucm.es said: - gpg.conf: default-key 65AD077A - options: default-key 65AD077A Do not use options - it has been replaced by gpg.conf so long ago that I barely remember that file. (I even rebooted to restart the gpg-agent). But xemacs, gnus, epg

Re: trying to find a folder

2014-01-28 Thread John Clizbe
fa-ml wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 04:37:11PM -0800, Justin Quakenbush wrote: wheres my gnupg folder? Have you tried checking 'man gpg' (search for 'FILES')? It should be ~/.gnupg/ , echo $GNUPGHOME to make sure. GNUPGHOME isn't set by default. It is for overriding the default location.

Re: Non email addresses in UID

2014-01-28 Thread Steve Jones
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:13:30 +0100 Leo Gaspard ekl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:08:16PM +, Steve Jones wrote: [...] Finally there's the possibility of explicit verification, if someone sends me a challenge and I publish that challenge's signature on my blog then