Re: Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-19 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 19 February 2018 at 8:51:08 PM, in a message with no id, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote:- > I think gpgme is the answer here as well. If you mean > specifically > a python interface to gpgme then it's probably up to > a python

Re: GPG encryption and decryption takes excessive time.

2018-02-19 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 19/02/18 21:54, Peter Lebbing wrote: > Since symmetric mode of GnuPG uses passphrase stretching, [...] Obviously I meant key stretching. Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available

Re: GPG encryption and decryption takes excessive time.

2018-02-19 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 19/02/18 21:06, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > Try symmetric encryption / decryption.  GnuPG uses hybrid encryption. Content is already encrypted with symmetric encryption, and only the randomly generated symmetric key, 16 or 32 bytes large usually, is encrypted asymmetrically to the recipient,

Re: Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-19 Thread edgar
On Feb 19, 2018 12:45 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > On Sat 2018-02-17 17:06:54 -0600, helices wrote: > > I will probably never understand why wanting to run the most current > > version of gnupg on a plethora of servers is controversial. > > Here's one last try to

Re: GPG encryption and decryption takes excessive time.

2018-02-19 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Green, Ian wrote: > > Can anyone suggest anything to help reduce the time to something more > viable? > Try symmetric encryption / decryption. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

GPG encryption and decryption takes excessive time.

2018-02-19 Thread Green, Ian
Hi Firstly, my knowledge of GPG is very weak and I am not a UNIX administrator, so my access and knowledge are rather limited. I have been asked to set up file encryption / decryption of files transferred between our SUN OS servers and two customer's servers. One customer is using a basic 2048

Why Operating Systems don't always upgrade GnuPG [was: Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?]

2018-02-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sat 2018-02-17 17:06:54 -0600, helices wrote: > I will probably never understand why wanting to run the most current > version of gnupg on a plethora of servers is controversial. Here's one last try to explain the situation. GnuPG (and the libraries it depends on) are used by (aka "depended

Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?

2018-02-19 Thread Konstantin Ryabitsev
On 02/19/18 04:53, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:38, konstan...@linuxfoundation.org said: > >> (if someone can recommend a better way that only statically links >> gnupg's own libraries like libassuan and libgpg-error, but uses shared >> objects for other system libraries, please

Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?

2018-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:38, konstan...@linuxfoundation.org said: > (if someone can recommend a better way that only statically links > gnupg's own libraries like libassuan and libgpg-error, but uses shared > objects for other system libraries, please let me know, as I didn't find > any quickie