Re: Corrupting files

2006-06-13 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:55:54PM +0200, Ingo Klöcker wrote: No, it doesn't. You are still believing in security-by-obscurity meaning that your additional encryption only works as long as you and the recipient are the only ones who know the secret rule. Please Ingo, _all_ encryption is

Re: Corrupting files

2006-06-13 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 09:02 schrieb Samuel ]slund: On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:55:54PM +0200, Ingo Klöcker wrote: No, it doesn't. You are still believing in security-by-obscurity meaning that your additional encryption only works as long as you and the recipient are the only ones who

OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread Tristan Williams
I am experimenting with the OpenPGP smartcard. I have two OpenPGP smart cards (smartA and smartB) and I want to verify that I can restore my on-card generated private key should I loose the master card (smartA). I only want to verify that I can do it - not discuss the merits of on-card vs.

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Tristan Williams wrote: I am experimenting with the OpenPGP smartcard. I have two OpenPGP smart cards (smartA and smartB) and I want to verify that I can restore my on-card generated private key should

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread Tristan Williams
On 13Jun06 18:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Tristan Williams wrote: I am experimenting with the OpenPGP smartcard. I have two OpenPGP smart cards (smartA and smartB) and I want to verify that I can restore my on-card generated private key should I

Re: False Decrypt Error...

2006-06-13 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:37:07AM -0500, Eric Robinson wrote: Is anyone familiar with the following error? Standard Error: gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir /opt/fxnet/gpggpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more informationgpg:

mime and pgp.asc

2006-06-13 Thread alifbaa
I am currently using GPG 1.4.3 on my mac powerbook G4 OSX 10.4.6 I hope that this is the right forum to post this question, but when i send an email with attachment and encrypt and sign it, it converts the message into two attachments, one that says mime-attachment and one that says pgp.asc. I

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:03:42PM +0200, markus reichelt wrote: Sorry, that was heat-induced and shall read of course as follows: No need to apologize :) Essentially you're saying: a private key generated on/via a smartcard cannot be

Re: mime and pgp.asc

2006-06-13 Thread Todd Zullinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 alifbaa wrote: I am currently using GPG 1.4.3 on my mac powerbook G4 OSX 10.4.6 I hope that this is the right forum to post this question, but when i send an email with attachment and encrypt and sign it, it converts the message into two

Re: False Decrypt Error...

2006-06-13 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:40:51PM -0500, Eric Robinson wrote: Hello David, Thanks so much for responding... We have switched from PGP to GPG and we have some of our customers are still using PGP, ¨PGPÁÀNŠˆæ ° is the first part of the message. What you said below is suspicous, I

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 19:03, markus reichelt wrote: * markus reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially you're saying: no backup of a private key generated on/via a smartcard cannot be exported. Because if it could be exported, importing the key(s) in question just works. Sorry, that

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:46:48PM +0100, Tristan Williams wrote: Then it makes me wonder what is the purpose of the off card backup file sk_X.gpg created when the original private key was created via the on-card method? Huh, according to

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:46:48PM +0100, Tristan Williams wrote: On 13Jun06 18:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Tristan Williams wrote: I am experimenting with the OpenPGP smartcard. I have two OpenPGP smart cards (smartA and smartB) and I want to

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Tristan Williams wrote: I am experimenting with the OpenPGP smartcard. I have two OpenPGP smart cards (smartA and smartB) and I want to verify that I can restore my on-card generated private key should I loose the master card (smartA). I only want to

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread Tristan Williams
On 13 Jun 2006, at 20:37, David Shaw wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Tristan Williams wrote: I am experimenting with the OpenPGP smartcard. I have two OpenPGP smart cards (smartA and smartB) and I want to verify that I can restore my on-card generated private key should I

RE: False Decrypt Error...

2006-06-13 Thread Eric Robinson
Ok, will do, in this case they send 10 files each day and maybe 1 a week errors out like this... Thanks again, Eric - Eric Robinson Business Application Advisor FedEx Corporate Services Internet Engineering EC Integration 901.263.5749

Re: Corrupting files

2006-06-13 Thread Johan Wevers
Atom Smasher wrote: btw, what's the threat model where this is advantageous? I can imagine it might be used for plausible deniability: if some law enforcement agency would force you to decrypt the messsage, you could claim you can't and you didn't read it anyway because it's corrupted. Of

RE: False Decrypt Error...

2006-06-13 Thread Eric Robinson
Hello David, Thanks so much for responding... We have switched from PGP to GPG and we have some of our customers are still using PGP, ¨PGPÁÀNŠˆæ ° is the first part of the message. What you said below is suspicous, I did notice a null value 00, hex 20 20, at the end of the file, I