Is it possible to force decryption with the wrong key type

2009-06-04 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
Hi, I received some files encrypted by a not really OpenPGP compliant product. Instead of using the encryption sub key, the files are encrypted with the primary key. Is there any chance to force decryption of the files? My secret keys are located on a OpenPGP smartcard. $ gpg2 -vv --decrypt

gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread Allen Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? Allen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) - GPGshell v3.72

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread John Clizbe
Allen Schultz wrote: Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? Not that I know of. If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? Maybe? But why should it? Everything OpenPGP related is provided by GnuPG 1.4. GnuPG's added X.509 functions aren't needed by GPGshell. There still

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:21:04PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote: Allen Schultz wrote: Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? Not that I know of. If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? Maybe? But why should it? Everything OpenPGP related is provided by GnuPG 1.4.

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Peter Pentchev wrote: Errr, unless I'm badly mistaken, gpg-agent doesn't come with GnuPG 1.4.x and to build and use it, you need some of those component libraries. And, at least for me, gpg-agent is a very, very comfortable and convenient tool.