Re: rotating encryption sub keys

2009-08-28 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw escribió: ... Incidentally, there have been proposals to add forward security extensions to OpenPGP. See http://www.apache-ssl.org/openpgp-pfs.txt As a side note, I am not sure I like these proposals... Therefore when a public

Re: rotating encryption sub keys

2009-08-28 Thread David Shaw
On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:37 AM, Faramir wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw escribió: ... Incidentally, there have been proposals to add forward security extensions to OpenPGP. See http://www.apache-ssl.org/openpgp-pfs.txt As a side note, I am not sure I like

RE: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-28 Thread John Betz
I appreciate the offer David, but I don't have PowerArchiver so I can't create a sample input file. The file I am trying to decrypt is coming from another source so I would have to get them involved in order to create a sample archive file. Because WinZip is compatible, I am able to open with PGP

RE: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-28 Thread John Betz
David, The file is a PowerArchiver file (containing multiple text files) that was encrypted using PGP. Thanks, John (office) 703-490-3227 (cell) 703-304-2536 -Original Message- From: David Shaw [mailto:ds...@jabberwocky.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:50 PM To: John Betz Cc:

Re: rotating encryption sub keys

2009-08-28 Thread vedaal
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:37:02 -0400 From: Faramir faramir...@gmail.com Subject: Re: rotating encryption sub keys What if I want to be able to decrypt an old email message? to decrypt any old messages is easy, although somewhat tedious ;-) before you destroy your encryption/decryption

Re: rotating encryption sub keys

2009-08-28 Thread Robert J. Hansen
ved...@hush.com wrote: to decrypt any old messages is easy, although somewhat tedious ;-) before you destroy your encryption/decryption key, decrypt all the messages/files encrypted to that key, using the option of --show-session-key then copy the session key as a 'comment' into the

RE: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-28 Thread John Betz
Erik, Thanks a lot for your response. I can successfully decrypt files with one exception - those that are zipped or archived. In this case the source file was created using Power Archiver. When the file is decrypted, there is garbage in the first record. It's as if gpg doesn't recognize that the

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:17, jb...@infimark.com said: By the way, I did use your recommended command string and got the same result. I suspect there is some kind of option that is required so that gpg knows that the output file should be created as an archive type file. No. gpg does not know