Split key

2010-01-22 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, I came across a reference to paperkey in this forum which seems to be splitting a public key into two parts. Does this procedure look like a sensible thing to do ? 1. Generate key pair in keyring. 2. Encrypt symmetric key using this public key. 3. Remove public key from keyring. Is

Split key

2010-01-22 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, I came across a reference to paperkey in this forum which seems to be splitting a public key into two parts. Does this procedure look like a sensible thing to do ? 1. Generate key pair in keyring. 2. Encrypt symmetric key using this public key. 3. Remove public key from keyring. Is

Storing password in keyring

2010-01-22 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, Question 1 : Is there any way to store a password in a keyring ? I don't have a database for this. I was just thinking that I can hash a password and use a keyring to store it to avoid the need for a database. Question 2 : Can I split a private(decrypting) key and

Re: Storing password in keyring

2010-01-22 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: Hi, Question 1 : Is there any way to store a password in a keyring ? I don't have a database for this. I was just thinking that I can hash a password and use a keyring to store it to avoid the need for a database. Not

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-22 Thread Matthew Krotzer
* Chris De Young c...@chud.net [100120 15:47]: Matthew Krotzer wrote: What is the best way to let people know you use gpg in an email signature? I usually just sign my messages and figure that's sufficient advertising. I'm sure that only a very small minority of my recipients bothers to

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-22 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:04:26AM -0500, Matthew Krotzer wrote: I've recieved enough replies of can't open the attachment you sent that made me stop signing all my emails. I'm looking for best policy to say hey, see this gpg stuff? You should look into it so we assure some degree of privacy

Re: Installation of gnupg on Sun Solaris

2010-01-22 Thread Morten Gulbrandsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Kalyana_SBS wrote: Hi, We are trying to install gnupg on Sun Solaris Box. We are trying to figure out which version of C compiler is most suitable for compiling the source code on Solaris box. I got mine from blastwave gpg

Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-22 Thread Chris De Young
Mark H. Wood wrote: Oh, yes. My tongue is nearly bitten through from suppressing the urge to respond, what did you think an 'application/pgp-signature' attachment is? I too would like to find some way to get the word out about what it is and why my correspondent might find it desirable. I

Re: gpeme_get_key returns a 'general error' after some time.

2010-01-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:43, f.schw...@chili-radiology.com said: I have some strange problems using gpg (1.4.9) resp. gpgme (1.1.4) and hope someone can help me. Please update gpgme to 1.2.0; there a couple of minor bug fixes. Further GPGME has far better trace support which greatly helps to

Re: Gnupg doesn't recognize card.

2010-01-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:11, taurus...@gmail.com said: Gpg does not recognize my fellowship card; ~ xxx$ gpg --card-status gpg: selecting openpgp failed: Card error gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Card error Reader 01: Gemplus GemPC Twin 00 00 Is that a new OpenPGP card (2.0)? If so you

Unable to delete bogus keys

2010-01-22 Thread Jerry
System Info: FreeBSD-7.2 gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14 libgcrypt 1.4.4 gpa 0.9.0 I honestly have no idea what the problem is here. I am not even sure if this is the correct mail forum to ask this question in. I recently installed GnuPG on my system. Everything appeared to go fine. For some reason, I have

Re: Unable to delete bogus keys

2010-01-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jerry escribió: System Info: FreeBSD-7.2 gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14 libgcrypt 1.4.4 gpa 0.9.0 I honestly have no idea what the problem is here. I am not even sure if this is the correct mail forum to ask this question in. I recently