Re: making the X.509 infrastructure available for OpenPGP

2014-02-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 04:15, mailinglis...@hauke-laging.de said: Wow. Does that mean that PGP can verify OpenPGP keys with X.509 certificates (in combination with a related OpenPGP certificate)? Or is this just a theoretical feature? IIRC, the PGP desktop client also integrated an IPsec

Re: making the X.509 infrastructure available for OpenPGP

2014-02-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 19:04, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: An X.509 certification obviously certifies that a certain X.509 certificate belongs to the person or role identified by the Distinguished Name. But seen a Almost all X.509 certification in public use certify only one of two things: -

[Abimbola, Gbenga] RE: Shouldn't keyservers store and provide subkeys?

2005-03-25 Thread Werner Koch
Mail From: Abimbola, Gbenga / Message starts here / Hi: I sent the message below, and did not see the request in March 2005 Archive. Is this the right mailing list? Can you help with respect to the message below? Meanwhile, during the configuration (./configure) and the make make

Re: gpg script to remove passphrase from secret key

2005-03-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:43:12 -0800, Kai-Min Sung said: and here's the input file: ---input start--- passwd old_pass Y save Y ---input end--- If you use such a canned input file, make sure that it is only used with gpg versions you tested. The correct way is to parse the status-fd

Re: Winpt error -- Sorry, you need a newer gpg version

2005-03-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:03:06 -0600, David Gibbs said: I get this error anytime I try to start up WinPT on my XP SP2 system. Sorry, you need a newer GPG version. GPG version 1.0.4 requred GPG version 1.2.4 You probably have an old version of GnuPG somewhere. I suggest to install the latest

Re: (Import-)Problem in gnupg 1.4.1

2005-03-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:04:17 +0100, Thomas Marx said: every key is listed twice. The difference is the usage of the slash and the back slash. I just checked it and the reason for the duplicate listing is that we use a caseinsensitive compare but care about slash and backslash. In this regard

Re: Clarification on purpose of subordinate keys

2005-03-31 Thread Werner Koch
of my main key (really?). Correct. The secret key is not on system2. This is indicated by a hash mark like: sec# 1024D/5B0358A2 1999-03-15 [expires: 2009-07-11] uid Werner Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] uid Werner Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ssb 1024D/010A57ED 2004

Re: --export problem

2005-04-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:56:39 +0530 , Thutika, Srinivas (ODC said: But when I try to import from from --import I am getting keys only I am not getting the secrect keys --export dies not export secret keys because, well, they are secret. If you really need to move the secret keys to another

Re: Version 0.3 of GPGee Available

2005-04-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:32:31 -0600, Kurt Fitzner said: p.s. btw... I suppose I should ask if these type of announcements are kosher for this mailing list? As long as it is Free Software those annoucnements are welcome. If you want to post it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], just go ahead and drop me a

Re: OpenPGP Smartcard Advantages

2005-04-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:08:10 -0700, David said: 1. What are the advantages of this smartcard for storing my keys over other external media (especially if connected to an unsafe computer)? Without physical access to the card it is not possible to extract the keys. With physical access it is

Re: OpenPGP card and BasicCard

2005-04-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:08:24 +0200, Christian Rank said: according to a notice at www.basiccard.com, the BasicCard manufactured by ZeitControl cardsystems GmbH should support the OpenPGP smartcard specification. Are the OpenPGP cards sold by kernelconcepts.de such BasicCards? The cards are

Re: Encrypt with public key from stdin/file possible?

2005-04-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:19:04 +0200, Sargon said: like to feed gpg w/o importing it first in its public keyring and afterwards specify the ID of the public key. According to my researches on the net and on the gnupg.org site, there's no way to do this though. Can anyone confirm this?

Re: OpenPGP card and BasicCard

2005-04-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:20:13 +0200, Christian Rank said: So the OpenPGP cards are ZeitControls's BasicCards with RSA encryption and the OpenPGP application loaded and put in state 'RUN' (no further programming of the card possible)? Exactly. What I'm missing from the OpenPGP card is the

Re: OpenPGP card and BasicCard

2005-04-15 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:45:23 +0200, Christian Rank said: operations without success, but that may be due to the fact that I have an OpenPGP card version 1.1, while the OpenSC support is for version 1.0. That does not better. The changes in 1.1 are: 4 new data objtecs - OpenSC does not know

Re: OpenPGP Smartcard with Cygwin

2005-04-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:20:29 +0200, Peter L Smilde said: I tried installing pcsc-lite from their website, but this only installs a libpcsclite.a and libpcsclite.la. How do I get the Smartcard working under Cygwin? I found no information on this topic (OpenPGP smartcard cygwin) in the web.

Re: Clearing passwords in agent

2005-04-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:40:34 -0700 (PDT), Bluthgeld said: 1. Is it possible to clear all passwords in agent regardless its ttl, without killing it? I mean something like ssh-add -D? pkill -HUP gpg-agent 2. Is it possible to force agent to reload its configuration from file given primarily

Re: fixing a corrup keyring

2005-04-21 Thread Werner Koch
-Shalom, Werner 2005-04-21 Werner Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] * mpicoder.c (mpi_read): Changed error detection to always return an error while maintaining the actual number of bytes read. --- mpi/mpicoder.c 20 Dec 2004 10:05:20 - 1.33 +++ mpi/mpicoder.c 21 Apr 2005

Re: corrupted keyring; now what is corrupted?

2005-04-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:17:01 +0200, folkert said: Will that also fix gpgme? It seems it has the same troubles. gpgme uses gpg, so if it is solved the problem for gpg, it also does for gpgme. Shalom-Salam, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

[Announce] GnuPG 1.9.16 (S/MIME) released

2005-04-25 Thread Werner Koch
+3RUgCeKeZvWsVNJDK5Mm5GKRmTzPjL /sMAoLmKF4+61cYHk/NxKUlmqUxSIq2T =yxLM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- g10 Code GmbH http://g10code.com AmtsGer. Wuppertal HRB 14459 Httenstr. 61 Geschftsfhrung Werner Koch D-40699 Erkrath -=- The GnuPG Experts -=- USt-Id DE215605608

Re: gpgme list secret keys

2005-04-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:11:01 +0200, Matthijs Mohlmann said: err = gpgme_op_keylist_start(ctx, NULL, 0); Replace the 0 by a 1 to list only keys where a secret key is available. while (!err) { uid = key-uids; subkey = key-subkeys; printf(%s: %s %s\n, subkey-keyid,

Re: gpg --batch --no-tty --gen-key

2005-05-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:03:49 -0700 (PDT), wolfe said: gpg --no-tty --export-secret-keys --armor '$EMAIL' $IDENT.sec.asc gpg --no-tty --export --armor '$EMAIL' $IDENT.pub.asc Do you really have a key with the string '$EMAIL' in a user ID? I guess what you want to use is gpg --batch

Re: GPG error code with successful signing operation

2005-05-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:11:20 -0500, Alex L Mauer said: When GPG is set to use the gpg-agent but the gpg-agent is not available (error message gpg-agent is not available in this session or can't connect to `/path/to/non-existent-pipe': No such file or directory), it produces a fatal error code

Re: decrypting large files failes

2005-05-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 03 May 2005 10:34:28 +0200, Daniel Musketa said: Is there a size limit for creating gpg files? In general no. However there might be a problem with the Windows version. There is a workaround which will work for sure: gpg -e message message.gpg gpg message.gpg message This way

Re: KMail and smartcard

2005-05-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 24 May 2005 06:41:24 +0200, Chris said: How can I use the smartcard in KMail? I cannot choose its keys in the Identity management. Does gpg -K list your key? This is what Kmail displays. You are using a decent Kmail (with all the crypto tabs in the configuration dialog and the

Re: Timing attack against AES

2005-05-24 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! Ryan, thanks for explaining this. I agree with you. Let me add that this is a classical type of side-channel attack and nothing really new. It is a general problem to hide things from other processes when sharing hardware. It is possible to make it hard but there won't never be perfect

Re: possible to encrypt message from pubkey gotten from ssl cert?

2005-05-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 22 May 2005 15:07:57 -0700, Alex Liberman said: is it possible to extract public key from ssl cert (actually have already got that far), and then use gpg to encrypt message using that public key? THx Yes. It is whoever some work. With the integration of ssh keys, X.509 certs and

Re: RC2

2005-05-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 24 May 2005 18:35:45 +0200, Alexander Hoffmann said: (rfc2268.c), but it will not be compiled (i concluded it from libgcrypt-config --algorithms output). What should i do to get the RC2 There might be a bug in libgcrypt-config --algorithms. However there is no need to do any special.

Re: Signing and Encrypting of attachments with Content-Type: message/rfc822

2005-05-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 31 May 2005 14:45:05 +0200, Sascha Kiefer said: have attachment of Content-Type: message/rfc822? The easiest way is to use PGP/Mime? But is it decodeable by anybody? Are MS Outlook can't cope with it. Every other MTA with a full MIME implementation should be able to handle it.

Re: GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

2005-06-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 11:36:32 +0200, Martin Geisler said: I don't know how Outlook (not Express) handles things. It won't be possible to verify a signature with Outlook due to the fact that it is not possible to get to the raw MIME headers. It might be possible to write a plugin which uses

Re: GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

2005-06-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:45:30 +0200, Kiefer, Sascha said: Well, as far as i see there is no difference between the MIME format of rfc2015 and rfc3156. Correct, 3156 has only minor clarifications. So, what is right? RFC like: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5

Re: GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

2005-06-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:16:54 +0200, Sascha Kiefer said: The PGP/MIME RFC states that you can first sign and then encrypt the mail. Doing this on the MIME level allows you to easily strip the encryption layer while leaving the signature intact. In S/MIME it is allowed to first encrypt and then

Re: Set date for signature to expire

2005-06-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:09:59 +0200, Per Tunedal Casual said: Issuers of X509 certificates use 1 year for soft certificates and 5 years for card certificates. I don't know their calculations behind that decision. That is a different thing: It is the expiration time of the key; something one

Re: ftp.gnupg.org down?

2005-06-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 05:08:45 -0700, Erpo said: I can connect, but I can't get any sort of login prompt. +1 data point. Its up again. The problem is that the server leaks file descriptors and have still not being able to nail the problem down. I guess I need to switch to a newer kernel.

Re: Corrupt keys

2005-06-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:28:59 +0930, Alphax said: Recently, I discovered the following message on GPG startup: gpg: signature packet without timestamp gpg in general needs the timestamp of the signature to figure out the latest signature. However when the signature is not used we should not

Re: SmartCard doesn't work

2005-06-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:30:11 +0200, Ralf Cordes said: card the next day nothing worked. Neither my new PINs nor the PINs which came with the card. I also wrote a mail to KernelConcepts but got no reply. What does the gpg --card-status show? Now I have a nice card without function. Is there a

Re: SmartCard doesn't work

2005-06-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:26:32 +0200, Ralf Cordes said: PIN retry counter : 3 0 3 That is not a real problem. The CHV2 tries have been used up. In general CHV1 and CHV2 are synced however when you enter a wrong PIN the corrsponding CHV's retry counter gets decremented. Please check why you

Re: New Outlook Plugin .99.1 (Beta) - works great!

2005-06-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:08:30 -0400, Jason Markley said: However.I can't seem to get the plugin to work with outlook. It crashes every time I try to decrypt or encrypt an email. Also, there's no toolbar buttons on the main outlook window (for those of us that use the preview-pane). Are

[Announce] GnuPG 1.9.17 (S/MIME and gpg-agent) released

2005-06-20 Thread Werner Koch
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[Announce] Second release candidate for GnuPG 1.4.2 available

2005-06-21 Thread Werner Koch
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Re: How to import a secret subkey?

2005-06-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:11:51 -0400, David Shaw said: You can't. GnuPG does not currently support merging secret subkeys. To do it, you need to delete the secret key on the second machine and re-import the whole key. We might however add this soon. IIRC most code is already there as we do

Re: How to import a secret subkey?

2005-06-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:08:18 +0100, Adam Funk said: I think there used to be a restriction that gpg --import secretkey.gpg wouldn't work without setting a special option. Is importing secret keys by accident no longer considered a risk? This was fixed with version 1.0.7 about 3 years ago.

Re: --for-your-eyes-only

2005-06-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:18:26 -0400, David Shaw said: However, GnuPG can call other programs to do other tasks (keyserver access programs, JPEG viewers for photo IDs), so it's not impossible that GnuPG could call an external secure viewer program. I don't know of one offhand though. Nor do I

Re: pinpad cardreader; imported smart-card keys

2005-06-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:30:15 -0500, Alex Mauer said: I purchased an SCM SPR332 card reader, based on the Smartcard Howto's statement (about the SPR532) The pinpad may be used to securely enter the PIN. I have found that I cannot use the pinpad, at least not with As of now the may be means

Re: --for-your-eyes-only

2005-06-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:58:52 -0400, Charly Avital said: I may not understand what you mean by portable. I suppose that a secure viewer (software program) could not be nearly ported to GnuPG? GnuPG is a command line tyool which only manges text input and output and as such it is pretty

Re: --for-your-eyes-only

2005-06-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:16:00 +0200 (MET DST), Johan Wevers said: Which makes me think... outputting the text to a .jpg (or .gif or .png) with secure fonts shown in the picture. The picture could then be looked at in an external vieuwer. That would be completely portable. Actually a neat idea.

Re: pinpad cardreader; imported smart-card keys

2005-06-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:35:58 -0500, Alex Mauer said: As I was afraid of; perhaps the howto could be updated to clarify that We will do this. The longer answer is that I have worked on it and added code to the CCID driver to check this out. How about the SC daemon? Its the same code

Re: Equivalent to option -f ?

2005-06-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:40:36 +0200, Konrad Mathieu said: I have to adapt a shell script to work with GPG instead of PGP and it contains the -f option for acting like a filter. Actually, There is no need for such an option because gpg, being a good Unix citizen, does this by default. the

Re: --for-your-eyes-only

2005-06-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:49:54 +0200 (MET DST), Johan Wevers said: Are you saying that my idea to output a picture with tempest-resistant fonts won't couse a problem, or that even if tempest-resistant fonts are patented only the fonts from the above URL can be used for this purpose? In case

Re: --for-your-eyes-only

2005-06-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:55:02 +0200, Janusz A Urbanowicz said: Some form of secure viewer was present in PGP 2.3 and 2.6 which were FLOSS. Huh, that's new to me. Both versions are pure command line tools without a graphical part. No way to make use fo filtered fonts. I am not sure what kind

Re: --for-your-eyes-only

2005-06-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:54:39 +0200, Janusz A Urbanowicz said: The aim of the secure viewer then was to make difficult to obtain eyes-only message text as a file or a pipe. It checked if output is a live tty, Okay, that is something different. I was solely speaking of a tempest resistant

Re: Out of office notifications.

2005-06-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:29:33 -0400, Charly Avital said: I have grown tired to receive out office notifications from [EMAIL PROTECTED] everytime I post to the list. That address is now on my junk list. I have disabled mail delivery to that account. Salam-Shalom, Werner

Re: pgp keys in gnupg: IDEA need for all recipients?

2005-06-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:23:17 +0200, Mark Kirchner said: Yes, as long as your key requires the use of IDEA-encryption, everybody who's trying to encrypt to you has to use an IDEA-enabled Nope. IDEA is an optional algorithm in OpenPGP. All OpenPGP compliant applications will use 3DES as the

Re: --for-your-eyes-only

2005-07-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:34:21 +0200, Janusz A Urbanowicz said: Yes, but if the threat model involves TEMPEST, should it also involve TEMPEST from optical wavelenghts (reflected light)? I depends on your needs; closing the shutters is one solution against it. Shalom-Salam, Werner

Re: gpa problem

2005-07-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:47:58 +0200, Eric Tanguy said: I have gpa 0.7.0 installed on FC4 system. When i try to search a key a window saying connecting to the server hkp://yyy please wait and that's all. I have tried all the available servers and this is always the same. gpa keep this window as

Re: How to check fingerprint without importing?

2005-07-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:40:54 -0700, Penelope Fudd said: On this system, there are about three dozen GPG key files that can be loaded into my rpm database, and I'm pretty sure that one of them is the right one, but I don't want to load them all. Import them all. It doesn't matter becuase

Re: Direct LDAP access

2005-07-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:31:15 -0500, Wes said: Hmm... That seems a bit kludgy, but certainly something to consider. I assume it would require two gpg commands - one to retrieve/import the key and one to do the encryption? I don't think this would help with accessing private keys, though?

Re: CRC error encrypted_mdc packet with unkown version 255

2005-07-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:15:45 +0200, Henk M de Bruijn said: gpg: CRC error; 4BF535 - 4F6694 The ASCII armor has been garbled somewhere on the transport. Salam-Shalom, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: clearsign destroys files

2005-07-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:48:58 +0200, Tobias Roth said: gpg --clearsign -o signed.pdf original.pdf You can't clearsign binary data. Shalom-Salam, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: smart card + gpg only root

2005-07-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:05:16 +0200, Federico Munerotto said: My user is the group scard but as long as only the root user can have access to the smart card it remains useless. I think it is a trivial permission issue: any help? With the Debian packages of pcscd anyone may connect to a running

Re: receiving key to file and more

2005-07-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:02:24 +0200, Sascha Kiefer said: 1. is it possible to receive a key to a file instead of to the keyring? No. You may however use the helper tools directly. 2. what is the difference between --search-keys and --recv-keys ? --search keys presents a list of macthing keys

Re: smart card + gpg only root

2005-07-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:13:00 +0200, Federico Munerotto said: gpg: DBG: ccid-driver: usb_claim_interface failed: -1 The USB device can't be accessed. This is a permission problem with the usbfs. (ID=058F:9520:X:0) Use lsusb to figure out the device like: $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID

Re: smart card + gpg only root

2005-07-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:27:04 +0200, Federico Munerotto said: if the device is unplugged and then plugged again, belongs again to the root group and isn't writable again (change its location). I need to set up hotplug to 1. chgrp to the proper group 2. chmod +rw scard the file that is

Re: PGP and Smartcards?

2005-07-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:25:49 +0200, Felix E Klee said: * Can I use GnuPG for signing and decryption with a smart card and 2048 bit RSA keys? What limitations do I have to expect, if any? Cards able to to generate and use 2k RSA keys are not easily available. This will change in a year or

Re: PGP and Smartcards?

2005-07-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:01:57 +0200, Felix E Klee said: OpenPGP cards with 2048 bit keys don't seem to be available at all. However, ordinary ISO 7816-4 compliant smart cards are available through online outlets. For example CryptoFlex and CyberFlex cards can be Good luck getting a secure and

Re: PGP and Smartcards?

2005-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:42:20 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said: I would disagree on that. Java Card is totally programmable and if you want you can implement the complete ISO7816 command set (as far as the Sorry, this is was a misinterpretation by me. hardware permits, of course). The downside is that

Re: gpg doesn't know

2005-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:58:13 +0400, Vladimir N Kutinsky said: Does anyone know what it means? gpg: CRC error; 92501E - 300D6B gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2b) The input data is garbled. Transmission error or the usual ascii vs. binary FTP problem. Salam-Shalom, Werner

Re: PGP and Smartcards?

2005-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:42:39 +0200, Felix E Klee said: Your wording implies that the cards I mentioned aren't both secure and fast. Any pointers? No, I was just not aware that they support 2k RSA and key generation in particular. My (old) specs don't say so. isn't that interesting,

Re: libcrypt and RC2 revisited

2005-07-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:35:58 +0200, Sven Fischer said: out. Well, this seems to have a reason, since uncommenting and recompiling libgcrypt 1.2.1 let gpgsm try to decrypt the mail, but without success (it says no data). Where is the problem with this? Can I help in any way to decode the

Re: libcrypt and RC2 revisited

2005-07-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:22:06 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said: Ugh, I hope that you'll _never,ever_ allow such low-grade insecure algorithms in gpg or anything related to it, no matter what the public demand is. For sure not in an application like gpg. However for certain tools (e.g. a crypto

Re: libcrypt and RC2 revisited

2005-07-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:32:51 +0200 (MET DST), Johan Wevers said: write a RC2 plugin if it's really needed. Or is there an easy way to add new algorithms to the current version of GnuPG that doesn't require changes in many places in the code? It is actual pretty simple but limited by the fact

Re: libcrypt and RC2 revisited

2005-07-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:36:11 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said: For decryption there is no problem, of course. As for encryption.. it is Well not supporting it _might_ help the sender to realize that he is doing something strange (i.e. using a weak algorithm) but you have to have some kind of plugin

Re: Entropy in ascii-armored output?

2005-07-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:56:58 -0400, David Shaw said: cat /good/random/source | gpg --enarmor There is even an easier way: gpg --gen-random -a 1 12 Returns 16 bytes of armored random; i.e. actual 12 bytes. This uses the same algorithm gpg uses for session keys. By using 2 instead of 1 gpg

Re: Problem with gcry_pk_decrypt (libgcrypt)

2005-08-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:33:57 +0200, Claudia Reuter said: I like to encrypt and decrypt large files e.g. pdf files. I wrote some code based on libgcrypt. I tested it with .txt files. Encryption seems to work, but gcry_pk_decrypt works only, if there's a single line in the txt file. If the txt

Re: Primary certify-only key?

2005-08-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:26:38 +0200, Thomas Kuehne said: The problem is that I cant create the first key with only C the capability. GnuPG does not yet distinguish between C and S. So it does not make much sense to have a way of selecting this. Salam-Shalom, Werner

Re: Leave clearsigned content encoding alone, how?

2005-08-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:16:24 +0200 (CEST), Alain Bench said: Mutt half-recently began to force outgoing traditional inline PGP messages to UTF-8, disregarding the $send_charset list (in fact acting Which is IMHO a proper interpretation of the OpenPGP specs. Despite what a lot of people

Re: throughput of GnuPG symmetric ciphers

2005-08-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 08:10:00 -0500, Ryan Malayter said: My test show 7-zip yields ~228 Mbps on a 2.4 GHz P4. The only cipher available with this program is AES256 in (I believe) ECB mode. Why encrypt at all when using ECB? ECB has no use except in very very special cases. Still, it seems a

Re: Proof of email ownership

2005-08-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:11:26 +0930, Alphax said: Your other assumption is that everyone has continuous and unrestricted (no proxies, firewalls) internet access. I can't even get GPG to work To clarify this: It is NOT a change of the trust modeel but an optional feature. Without access to the

Re: more than one message digest per signed message?

2005-08-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:02:21 +0200, Thomas Kuehne said: Is it possible to use more than one message digest when signing a message with GnuPG? No. Shalom-Salam, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: Proof of email ownership

2005-08-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:37:10 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek said: Do these TXT records support having multiple keys associated with the same email address? For example, I use D7CBA633 for everyday signing and encryption, and 24EEB426 for tin foil hat applications. No. I can be extended to allow for

Re: Proof of email ownership

2005-08-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:24:50 +0200, Simon Josefsson said: gpg: can't put notation data into v3 (PGP 2.x style) signatures [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Is my key unusable with this scheme? For better compatibility with pre OpenPGP implementations, gpg creates v3 signatures with v3 keys (yours). v3

Re: Proof of email ownership

2005-08-09 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:34:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri said: How does this interact with DKIM? DKIM does not work. For example, their canonicalization is broken and one can easily fake a MIME message. Shalom-Salam, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing

Re: Arguments for inline PGP

2005-08-09 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:43:40 +0200, Thomas Kuehne said: OutlookExpress displays the message just like Mozilla or KMail without encryption plugins. Use a MIME compliant MUA and not such a spam/DoS/virus vector. Shalom-Salam, Werner ___

Re: removing revoked or expired signatures

2005-08-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:48:06 +1000, Raymond said: Is it possible to remove a revocation certificate? No. Once issued they should not be removed. Shalom-Salam, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: gpg befehle

2005-08-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:46:29 +0200, Holger Schüttel said: hallo bin auf diesem sektor noch absolut blank aber irgendwie funzt das eingeben der befehle nicht habe gnu1.4.2 und ich muß doch eingeben Bitte hier englisch schreiben oder aber die Liste [EMAIL PROTECTED] benutzen. Please write in

Re: deluid // why no passphrase required ?

2005-08-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:32:33 +0200 (MET DST), Johan Wevers said: Are uid's also stored in the secret key? I thought they only existed For historic reasons the user IDs are also stored in the secring.gpg. This is an internal detail and will eventually change. Shalom-Salam, Werner

Re: gpg-agent doesn't remember passphrase

2005-08-17 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 22:49:27 +0200, Tristan Miller said: gpg-1.4.0-4 gpgme-1.0.2-3 pinentry-0.7.1-4 libksba-0.9.10-3 and the version of gpg-agent is ... ? gpg-agent --version Salam-Shalom, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: Install problems

2005-08-17 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:04:08 +0300, =?windows-1251?Q?=c2=e0=f1=e8=eb=e8=e9 =cf=e5=f2=f0=ee=e2?= said: Can you help me install libgcrypt under Windows platform ? I unable to use configure with Windows You need t build it on a posix system. Debian GNU/LInux is the most convenient system do do

Re: PKCS#11 support for gpg-agent

2005-08-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:01:04 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev said: The disclaimer at http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2133 states Its is not about the protocol but about the licenses incompatibility between Mozilla and GPL applications. AFAIK, not everything in Mozilla has the option to be

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:45:53 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev said: environment...) It provides a generic API to access cryptographic tokens. Most smartcard vendors, including IBM, provide PKCS#11 library that communicates with their card. Again: Feel free to provide one. The only thing you need is

Re: PKCS#11 support for gpg-agent

2005-09-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:30:29 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev said: Most pkcs#11 stuff is not GPL compatible. But it does not say that GPLed software cannot use PKCS#11 interface in order to access none GPLed tokens! Read the GPL again and you will see that this is not possible. I am sorry to read

Re: PKCS#11 support for gpg-agent

2005-09-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:21:06 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev said: Yes... But why? What was the reason to work so hard in adding S/MIME? The answer for my opinion is that IT IS A STANDARD!!! I am sorry to correct you. No mental sane hacker would voluntary implement X.509 stupidity. The reason why we

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:13:45 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev said: Finally someone who understand... I had no such luck with Werner Koch, who argues that OpenPGP card is standard... Well it is as much a standard as pkcs#15 is one. Who decides what a standard is? RSA Corporation defines standards known

Re: PKCS#11 support for gpg-agent

2005-09-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:08:37 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev said: But it does not say that GPLed software cannot use PKCS#11 interface in order to access none GPLed tokens! Read the GPL again and you will see that this is not possible. I have... and did not find the place. Can you please refer me to

Re: GnuPG Large File Issues - Windows

2005-09-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:32:36 -0400, Jeffrey Tadlock said: 'gpg --encrypt-files -r System Administrator -z 0 filename_5.7GB_in_size' I recall that I once tested it and it used to work. However it is a long time ago so no guarantee. My current test machine has not enough space to run a test

Re: OpenPGP card and gpg-agent --enable-ssh-support

2005-09-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:48:30 +0200, Andreas Liebschner said: But it still asks me the actual password for the user, not the pin or the passphrase of my gpg key. So I thought I should have added some What does ssh-add -l give? You should see the fingerprint of the card's key as well as

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:05:50 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev said: I am sorry if I was too harsh during this discussion, it hurts to see people inventing standards of their own thus limiting the usage of their own great software. No problem. I want to thank you for this discussion. Its always good to

Re: GnuPG Large File Issues - Windows

2005-09-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 10:02:31 -0400, Jeffrey Tadlock said: Am I typing something wrong? Here is what I typed: gpg --encrypt-files -r System Administrator -z 0 sql-db.bak sql-db.gpg Sorry, I missed that you are using --encrypt-files. This command is deifferent to --encrypt in that it takes a

Re: PKCS#11 support for gpg-agent

2005-09-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 08:35:15 +0100 (BST), Nicholas Cole said: gpg-1.9, and the thinking behind adding support for s/mime. What is the roadmap (from the point of view of users) for gpg? * The most important task is to integrate gpg 1.4 code base into gpg 1.9. I did this a long time ago but

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:35:34 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said: As Alon did remark earlier, the general movement in the industry is towards multi-purpose smart-cards. OpenPGP card currently doesn't fall into this category. Not true. The OpenPGP card specification is a card application and you may put

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:04:28 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said: Anyway, the right way, as I've understood Alon, is to make gpg use gpg-agent. They communicate via a well defined _protocol_ and are not _linked_ together. Just for the record: Linking is only one indication that the whole is a derived

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