Fwd: GPA errors when creating key pair

2019-02-01 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Subject: GPA errors when creating key pair Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 09:03:54 +0100 From: Roland Siemons (P

GPA errors when creating key pair

2019-02-01 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear List, I am trying to help somebody to set up GPG4Win. He uses Win10. Trying to create a new key pair using GPA, GPA returns: "The GPGME library returned an unexpected error at gpagenkeyadvop.c:163. The error was: Invalid argument" How can this be resolved? Greetz, -- Roland Siemons

gpg troubles

2018-10-31 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
> Message-ID: <20181029031830.ga24...@kugelfisch.zuhause.test> > > Roland Siemons (P) at Fri., 2018-10-12: > >> 3/ Assisted remotely by some of you, I was able to sort out a very >> strange problem with decryption. The solution was found by manipulating >> my key from inside the

gpg troubles

2018-10-12 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear GnuPG experts, 1/ Thanks and compliments to those who make GnuPG possible! 2/ I am a very ordinary end-user who unfortunately cannot fall back to computer experts easily in his vicinity. One of those for whom forum assistance and manuals are very important. 3/ Assisted remotely by some of

Re: Decryption troubles

2018-10-11 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear Werner, Thanks for yr advise. This is what I get, following yr suggestion: ## gpg : gpg: public key is 1594F1502D7EF3B9 At line:1 char:1 + gpg -vd -o C:\Users\Roland\Desktop\Bagger\1.pdf 

Re: Decryption troubles

2018-10-10 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear Werner, Thanks for yr advise. This is what I get, following yr suggestion: ## gpg : gpg: public key is 1594F1502D7EF3B9 At line:1 char:1 + gpg -vd -o C:\Users\Roland\Desktop\Bagger\1.pdf 

Help needed with key

2018-10-10 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear GNUPGs, I have strange troubles with my key. I DO can decrypt encrypted files that other people prepared for me, using the public part of my key for encryption. Public key attached to this message. I canNOT decrypt files that were

Subkeys

2018-09-04 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear GnuPG As a user of GPG4Win, is there any explanation in the compendium about the meaning and use of subkeys (I cannot find anything about that matter in the The Gpg4win Compendium 3.0.0) Best regards, -- Roland Siemons 0xAEEC5E2ED87628F5.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

Re: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

2018-09-04 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
bles > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > As long as you did not publish reports revocation, delete the key and > re-import it without the revocation cert. > > Am 3. September 2018 17:03:19 MESZ schrieb "Roland S

revocation troubles & smartcard troubles

2018-09-03 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear GnuPG, I am already using GnuPG for a long time. But try to improve my understanding of and working with it. I became a member of Free Software Foundation Europe, and got a smartcard. I wanted to use it. And that is where the trouble started: I intended to copy all my personal keys to the

Win7: Kleopatra does not open

2011-10-22 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear Forum, I recently installed GnuPG (Gpg4Win). My purpose is to be able to create encrypted files for exchange via email. No integration with an email client such as Thunderbird. Therefore I need to be able to execute Kleopatra or GPA. Unfortunately Kleopatra does not work. I tried both