Re: moving user ID Comments to --expert mode

2011-02-03 Thread Dirk Walter
I like the idea of adding the (Optional) to the prompt because I'm a big fan of optional fields being marked as such. This is an simple and elegant fix to an issue. And I'd hesitate to move it to expert since we have been (ab)using the comment field for our keys, then again this is being used by

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-04 Thread Dirk Walter
There are mailing list managers that support encrypted mailing lists -- i.e. you encrypt the message to the list bot, and the bot reencrypts to the then-current set of recipients. That doesn't solve your archive problem though, and the revocation issue is unsolvable with any crypto framework.

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread Dirk Walter
It would seem like a fairly trivial thing to code, just have whatever is writing the file pipe it to GNUPG with the appropriate settings and write output of gpg to disk. I don't think there if a front end that does it for you though, some custom code seems unavoidable but depending on your precise

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread Dirk Walter
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: (snip), and so on and so on.  You can probably hack together a userspace solution that kind of works, but to do it right you really need a kernel driver. That depends on the source of the files, if you have eg a

Trying to build gpg on AIX 6.1

2010-06-02 Thread Dirk Walter
Hello all, I am trying to build gpg on an AIX 6.1 machine and while some people have reported success I can't even get configure to successfully run. The problem seems to be with the -V flag which takes arguments but none are provided in the configure script. I have included the part of the log I