Re: gpa reports error: Unsupported Protocol

2013-04-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:36, je...@seibercom.net said: GPA continually displays an error screen when I start it. The screen Does gpa --disable-x509 help? Do you have gpgsm installed (run: gpgsm --version)? Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein

Re: Reading key capabilities information before importing a key

2013-04-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:28, mailinglis...@hauke-laging.de said: 2) You import the key but direct it to a different keyring, see --keyring --secret-keyring --primary-keyring --no-default-keyring You better use a temporary directory. This is far easier than to play with all the options and it

Backing up Private Keys

2013-04-11 Thread Ashley Holman
Hi all, When I export my private key using `gpg --export-secret-key --armor', and then delete all of my keys and re-impot from the exported secret key, it seems to give me both the public and private key back. Does this mean that the public key is exported along with the private key? I'm just

Re: gpg2 does not ask for pass phrase

2013-04-11 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 04/10/2013 03:18 PM, Werner Koch wrote: Hi, please write to gnupg-users@gnupg.org and not to the webmaster address. Thanks, Werner Sorry. Right now I am not subscribed and haven't been for years. It is just that this is a serious issue where I had no way that I could easily

Re: Backing up Private Keys

2013-04-11 Thread Peter Lebbing
Does this mean that the public key is exported along with the private key? Yes, indeed. HTH, 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 at

Re: Backing up Private Keys

2013-04-11 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Do 11.04.2013, 15:05:46 schrieb Ashley Holman: Does this mean that the public key is exported along with the private key? Yes. if --export-secret-key is enough. Yes. You can compare the exported files and will notice that those with the private keys are larger. Hauke -- ☺ PGP: 7D82

Re: gpa reports error: Unsupported Protocol

2013-04-11 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:59:09 +0200 Werner Koch articulated: On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:36, je...@seibercom.net said: GPA continually displays an error screen when I start it. The screen Does gpa --disable-x509 help? Yes, that corrects the problem, but why. Shouldn't it work without

Re: gpa reports error: Unsupported Protocol

2013-04-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:53, je...@seibercom.net said: Yes, that corrects the problem, but why. Shouldn't it work without that hack? Yes. Actually I recall hat I fixed a bug related to this some time ago, but this should be in the release. Do you have any X.509 keys? gpgsm should auto-import

Re: gpa reports error: Unsupported Protocol

2013-04-11 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:52:20 +0200 Werner Koch articulated: On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:53, je...@seibercom.net said: Yes, that corrects the problem, but why. Shouldn't it work without that hack? Yes. Actually I recall hat I fixed a bug related to this some time ago, but this should be in

Re: gpa reports error: Unsupported Protocol

2013-04-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:42, je...@seibercom.net said: A copy of the gpgme.log file @ level #9 is available here: It seems that GPGME has not been build with support for GPGSM. The output of configure when building gpgme should tell you this. Please try the patch for GPA below. Shalom-Salam,

Re: Reading key capabilities information before importing a key

2013-04-11 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Branko Majic asked: I'm trying to find a way to list the key capabilities of a key before importing it. I can obtain some basic information by using the command (I've seen this one in the mailing list archives): In addition to the other