Re: A postmortem on Efail

2018-05-20 Thread mick crane
On 2018-05-20 07:26, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Writing just for myself -- not for GnuPG and not for Enigmail and definitely not for my employer -- I put together a postmortem on Efail. You may find it worth reading. You may also not. Your mileage will probably vary. :)

Re: Top-posting

2016-04-28 Thread mick crane
even shorter, A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? On 2016-04-28 08:20, Werner Koch wrote: Everyone is going to steal this. FWIW: Perry E. Metzger gives

Re: where is gnupg configure file

2016-04-02 Thread mick crane
On 2016-04-02 11:42, Peter Lebbing wrote: To reiterate, apt will always use GnuPG 1.4 from the gnupg package (and gpgv from the gpgv package). You can use GnuPG 2.0 by starting your command line with gpg2 as the program name. This is all for Debian jessie. In the next release, some things will

Re: where is gnupg configure file

2016-04-01 Thread mick crane
On 2016-04-01 18:21, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 01/04/16 10:21, mick crane wrote: from what I read I don't think I can use gpg2 because Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)apt uses gpg1 at present. GnuPG 1.4 and GnuPG 2.x are co-installable, they can function side-by-side. If you take the Jessie GnuPG

Re: where is gnupg configure file

2016-04-01 Thread mick crane
On 2016-04-01 06:49, Viktor Dick wrote: Are you sure that you are using gpg2? private-keys-v1.d only contains private keys for gpg2. gpg1 stores them in ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg or something like that. If enigmail uses gpg2 and you created your key with gpg1, they will not see the same keys.

Re: where is gnupg configure file

2016-03-31 Thread mick crane
On 2016-04-01 04:35, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 4:05 AM, mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: First what I would like to do is find a configure file for gnupg ? Did you check ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf ? If it does not exist just create it. Ah OK, so there is no other

where is gnupg configure file

2016-03-31 Thread mick crane
hello, I made a key pair a couple of years ago but I never used them. Now I try to make new Debian email server ( just for me ) all nice and tidy. there is enigma plugin for roundmail. I imported my private and public keys and they seem to be in the keyring as "gnupg -K --list-secret-keys"

Re: failed decryption

2015-04-19 Thread Mick Crane
On 19 Apr 2015, at 06:42, Adam Gold a...@gmx.com wrote: I'm attempting to decrypt a symmetrically encrypted tarball appx 25GB in size. It goes as follows: gpg [file].tar.bz2.gpg gpg: AES256 encrypted data gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase gpg: packet(7) with unknown version 41 gpg:

Re: bugs.gnupg.org TLS certificate

2015-03-12 Thread Mick Crane
On 12 Mar 2015, at 23:21, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@barrera.io wrote: On 2015-03-11 17:38, Werner Koch wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:12, br...@minton.name said: git.gnupg.org) don't use that certificate. Have you considered a wildcard certificate? I know this has been discussed

Re: Why the software is crap

2014-11-14 Thread Mick Crane
Something is strange, I don't know much about this stuff but it seems important to you to have encryption working. It is so easy these days to install an OS automagically I would, in your case, make a fresh installation on some other machine and do what it is you want to do to prove a point.

Re: mascot_p

2014-06-18 Thread Mick Crane
On 17 Jun 2014, at 21:05, Erik Josefsson erik.hjalmar.josefs...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/17/2014 08:12 PM, Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh wrote: My Vote is for the armadillo, pangolin, or hedgehog. All cutecuddly until you try to look too close... Hedgehog is taken :-)

Re: Mascot_p

2014-06-17 Thread Mick Crane
On 17 Jun 2014, at 17:53, Mark Rousell ma...@signal100.com wrote: On 17/06/2014 15:55, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: [...] Maybe an armored robotic #D Gnu might be a consideration. Oh yes, excellent idea. :-) Maybe a mask of some sort ___