How to reset a smartcard ?

2009-09-25 Thread tux . tsndcb
Hi all, No body has an idea to reset a smartcard as factory settings ? I think it is possible, but I don't know how to do that. Thanks in advanced for your help. Best Regard - Mail Original - De: tux tsndcb tux.tsn...@free.fr À: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Envoyé: Dimanche 20 Septembre

Re: Two tidbits of potential interest

2009-09-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:13, marcio.barb...@gmail.com said: Is this a generic asymmetric premise? I mean: is it valid both to the (computational) Mathematics behind OpenPGP's and X.509's public keys' integers? Yes. All real world asymmetric algorithms are build on a hard so solve computional

Re: How to reset a smartcard ?

2009-09-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:33, tux.tsn...@free.fr said: No body has an idea to reset a smartcard as factory settings ? I think it is possible, but I don't know how to do that. If you have a version 2 card, this is possible. WARNING: Don't run the commands given below on version 1 cards - you

Re: How to reset a smartcard ?

2009-09-25 Thread tux . tsndcb
Hi Werner, Your help is a pleasure, thanks you very much, it works fine. Best Regars. - Mail Original - De: Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org À: tux tsndcb tux.tsn...@free.fr Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Envoyé: Vendredi 25 Septembre 2009 11h48:36 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome /

Re: Two tidbits of potential interest

2009-09-25 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 24, 2009, at 3:13 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote: On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:30 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: Hi David, about the first tidbit: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote: First of all,

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/24/2009 04:56 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote: Does it also work with keys like 0xCB0D4CAF or 0xAB1BC4E6 created with PGP 6 (or earlier) where the user ID is not UTF-8 encoded? hm; 0xCB0D4CAF looks to me like it expired 5 years ago; and 0xAB1BC4E6 doesn't appear to be available on the public

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-25 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Since most of these tools rely on gpg as a backend, implementing a more-reasonable choice in gpg seems like a good idea. What troubles me about this sort of behavior is that it is genuinely good and helpful in some cases and baffling

Re: Two tidbits of potential interest

2009-09-25 Thread M.B.Jr.
Hi Werner, On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:13, marcio.barb...@gmail.com said: Is this a generic asymmetric premise? I mean: is it valid both to the (computational) Mathematics behind OpenPGP's and X.509's public keys' integers?

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-25 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Friday 25 September 2009, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 09/24/2009 04:56 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote: Does it also work with keys like 0xCB0D4CAF or 0xAB1BC4E6 created with PGP 6 (or earlier) where the user ID is not UTF-8 encoded? hm; 0xCB0D4CAF looks to me like it expired 5 years ago; and

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/25/2009 11:06 AM, David Shaw wrote: What troubles me about this sort of behavior is that it is genuinely good and helpful in some cases and baffling and off-putting in others. For example, someone has two different Alice keys in their keyring. Both keys have a single UID, which is

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-25 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Friday 25 September 2009, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 09/25/2009 11:06 AM, David Shaw wrote: What troubles me about this sort of behavior is that it is genuinely good and helpful in some cases and baffling and off-putting in others. For example, someone has two different Alice keys

Re: Decryption Fails on UserName but not on EmailAddress ???

2009-09-25 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 25, 2009, at 7:19 PM, nschroth wrote: I have been reading previous posts on this topic but have not found my answer. When I ENcrypt on BoxA using -r UserName, decryption on BoxB errors with : decryption failed: secret key not available. However, doing the same test using the email

manual for gpgme

2009-09-25 Thread Maneki Neko
Where can I find a manual for gpgme's API? On gnupg's homepage, a reference manual is referenced, but there is no such manual under Documentation - Manuals. A search on Google only turns up a non-downloadable outdated version of the manual for 1.1.6 on pyme.sourceforge.net. I see in gpgme download

Open or Decrypt an SEF file ?

2009-09-25 Thread maxim kozlov
Hello sir, I have a file that compressed in an .SEF format, I was wondering if you know how to open an SEF file or maybe you can direct me to someone who can ? It contains trading indicators but without open source code they can't be used and I can't see the source code without opening this

GPG key not working with other username

2009-09-25 Thread adrian_k
Hi all, I need your help really urgent. I created a GPG key on a server with a username. When i try to encrypt a file using that same key but using a different NT user account it doesn't work. How can I grant other users access to the key? Thanks -- View this message in context:

gnupg and encrypted empty files.

2009-09-25 Thread Edward Peschko
All, I'm trying to use gpg-1.4.9, and noticed an odd thing. When a file that is empty is encrypted, decrypting it with --output does not produce an empty file.. It produces NO file at all, and NO system errors. This is exceedingly odd - is this by design, and if so, why? It sure is a pain.. Ed

GPG decryption error

2009-09-25 Thread Dutta, Sudip
Hello, I'd really appreciate if someone can provide feedback with a decryption-related error we're getting. For an encrypted file of size approx. 2 - 4 gigs, encrypted by a user using the same key that is being used for decrypting it, there are errors, as listed below - however there are

Einladung: How secure asymmetric encryption to yours elf? @ Sa 21. Mär. 02:00 – 03:00 (GnuPG Users)

2009-09-25 Thread Gordian Klein
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Network Mounted Home Directory and removal of --passphrase option

2009-09-25 Thread gw1500se
I am trying to upgrade to GPG2 and am having trouble, I think all stemming from the new user agent feature. My first question: is there a way to simply not use the user agent (i.e. just enter the passphrase as before) since it does not seem to work in my environment? I tried using 'echo' and

seeding agent cache with gpg-preset-passphrase does not seem to work

2009-09-25 Thread Andrew Thompson
Greetings gnupg-users, I'm trying to seed gnupg-agent using the not-so-majikal gpg-preset-passphrase tool. Emphasis on *trying* - it's not working atm (yet?) All the gory details follow bellow, but in a nutshell, this is what I think is happening: * use of gpg-preset-passphrase results in a