Re: [Enigmail] Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-09 Thread pp foundation
ns and goes beyond email already today; and it's designed from the very beginning on to support other crypto as well (agnosticism on messaging & crypto). -- p≡p foundation: https://pep.foundation/ 0xCB5738652768F7E9.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Descriptio

Fwd: GPA errors when creating key pair

2019-02-01 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Subject: GPA errors when creating key pair Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 09:03:54 +0100 From: Roland Siemons (P

GPA errors when creating key pair

2019-02-01 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear List, I am trying to help somebody to set up GPG4Win. He uses Win10. Trying to create a new key pair using GPA, GPA returns: "The GPGME library returned an unexpected error at gpagenkeyadvop.c:163. The error was: Invalid argument" How can this be resolved? Greetz, -- Roland Siemons

gpg troubles

2018-10-31 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
> Message-ID: <20181029031830.ga24...@kugelfisch.zuhause.test> > > Roland Siemons (P) at Fri., 2018-10-12: > >> 3/ Assisted remotely by some of you, I was able to sort out a very >> strange problem with decryption. The solution was found by manipulating >> my key from inside the

gpg troubles

2018-10-12 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear GnuPG experts, 1/ Thanks and compliments to those who make GnuPG possible! 2/ I am a very ordinary end-user who unfortunately cannot fall back to computer experts easily in his vicinity. One of those for whom forum assistance and manuals are very important. 3/ Assisted remotely by some of

Re: Decryption troubles

2018-10-11 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear Werner, Thanks for yr advise. This is what I get, following yr suggestion: ## gpg : gpg: public key is 1594F1502D7EF3B9 At line:1 char:1 + gpg -vd -o C:\Users\Roland\Desktop\Bagger\1.pdf 

Re: Decryption troubles

2018-10-10 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear Werner, Thanks for yr advise. This is what I get, following yr suggestion: ## gpg : gpg: public key is 1594F1502D7EF3B9 At line:1 char:1 + gpg -vd -o C:\Users\Roland\Desktop\Bagger\1.pdf 

Help needed with key

2018-10-10 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear GNUPGs, I have strange troubles with my key. I DO can decrypt encrypted files that other people prepared for me, using the public part of my key for encryption. Public key attached to this message. I canNOT decrypt files that were

Subkeys

2018-09-04 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear GnuPG As a user of GPG4Win, is there any explanation in the compendium about the meaning and use of subkeys (I cannot find anything about that matter in the The Gpg4win Compendium 3.0.0) Best regards, -- Roland Siemons 0xAEEC5E2ED87628F5.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

Re: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

2018-09-04 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
bles > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > As long as you did not publish reports revocation, delete the key and > re-import it without the revocation cert. > > Am 3. September 2018 17:03:19 MESZ schrieb "Roland S

revocation troubles & smartcard troubles

2018-09-03 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear GnuPG, I am already using GnuPG for a long time. But try to improve my understanding of and working with it. I became a member of Free Software Foundation Europe, and got a smartcard. I wanted to use it. And that is where the trouble started: I intended to copy all my personal keys to the

Re: A Solution for Sending Messages Safely from EFAIL-safe Senders to EFAIL-unsafe Receivers

2018-05-24 Thread Craig P Hicks
Thanks Phil. Very interesting! I will look into that. On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Phil Pennock <gnupg-us...@spodhuis.org> wrote: > On 2018-05-22 at 19:35 -0700, Craig P Hicks wrote: > > "A Solution for Sending Messages Safely from EFAIL-safe Senders to > &

A Solution for Sending Messages Safely from EFAIL-safe Senders to EFAIL-unsafe Receivers

2018-05-23 Thread Craig P Hicks
At some finite date in the (hopefully) near future, most email client over GnuPG users will have an EFAIL-reading safe system setup, if they don't already. MDC will be strictly enforced. However, the situation for a secret message sending is not so good. There is no way to guarantee that the

Smartcard working completely with GPG2 and incompletely with GPG1.4

2017-01-25 Thread chris . p . 16
IALNO" there. The output of 'gpg-connect-agent "KEYINFO --list" /bye' is S KEYINFO 4C4D4CBB69450D70DAECB0929B4E57E00D96A270 T XXXX OPENPGP.2 - - - - - S KEYINFO 259BD34A8AFCFDE34C08C637086496C890AF3640 D - - - P - - - S KEYINFO 6BB6690E54C14D959135BBFEA6665F2E8A

Re: GnuPG vs. GPG4Win

2016-10-08 Thread Rohit P
6 3:54 PM To: Rohit P on GnuPG-Users Cc: Rohit P Subject: Re: GnuPG vs. GPG4Win -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Saturday 8 October 2016 at 8:02:00 AM, in <mid:maxpr01mb04127abd7bd6879c5ee2993197...@maxpr01mb0412.indprd01.prod.outlook.com>, Rohit P wrote:- > In

GnuPG vs. GPG4Win

2016-10-08 Thread Rohit P
In Older versions of GnuPG, a system tray icon used to appear with an option to encrypt text on current window. Newer versions of GnuPG has no such option. I am not understanding the difference between GnuPG and GPG4Win. Are these one and the same thing? Windows binary is not available for

RSA 4096-bit Key

2016-10-08 Thread Rohit P
I am using latest version of GPG. I noticed there is no option to generate RSA 4096-bit key. The same goes with DSA. In older versions of GnuPG, this key size was supported. . Regards, RP ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: Why GnuPG encrypted file has no icon?

2016-10-01 Thread Rohit P
___ From: MFPA <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net> Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2016 5:40 PM To: Rohit P on GnuPG-Users Cc: Rohit P Subject: Re: Why GnuPG encrypted file has no icon? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Saturday 1 October 2016 at 7:47:39 AM, in <mid:maxpr0

Re: Why GnuPG encrypted file has no icon?

2016-10-01 Thread Rohit P
I am using Windows 7. Icons are there on all files. What I actually meant is when a file is encrypted with GnuPG, the resultant .pgp file has no icon. From: Paul R. Ramer <free10...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2016 11:17:54 AM To: Rohit P Subje

Why GnuPG encrypted file has no icon?

2016-09-30 Thread Rohit P
When you encrypt multiple files in a folder, GnuPG encrypted files have no icon. It is difficult to immediately identify which are the encrypted files. Any specific reason why encrypted files have no icon? ... RP ___ Gnupg-users

install problems

2015-08-05 Thread Eric P
Hi I am trying to install 2.0.28 on linux mint 17 but I get this message even though I have located all of the libraries on my system Can I get some assistance? thanks *** *** You need libgpg-error to build this program. ** This library is for example available at ***

Re: GPG's vulnerability to quantum cryptography

2014-05-19 Thread p . h . delgado
On 05/13/2014 04:03 PM, David Q. wrote: For this reason, what I do today is share long keys with people I know *in person*. We then use regular AES-256 to encrypt/decrypt our messages back and forth. Every 6 months we meet in person to renew our keys. You are right, but, in my opinion, for

Re: UI terminology for calculated validities

2014-04-23 Thread p . h . delgado
On 04/22/2014 10:49 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: We do agree that crypto is by its nature difficult... I agree, but I believe the statement should be more specific, i.e.,: ...Web-of-Trust is by its nature difficult... If I can propose a we do agree statement, it would be the following: *We do

Re: It's 2014. Are we there yet?

2014-04-10 Thread p . h . delgado
On 04/09/2014 04:39 PM, Kapil Aggarwal wrote: ... All thoughts are very much welcome and appreciated. This was put together some time ago for a group of individuals with a specific use-case. This might not be generally applicable: it requires a fair bit of understanding of the fundamentals

Faulting application gpg2

2012-03-21 Thread Karthik P
0x01cd068e1a246c4c. Any suggestion to fix the above issue? Regards, Karthik P -- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential, privileged

Win7: Kleopatra does not open

2011-10-22 Thread Roland Siemons (P)
Dear Forum, I recently installed GnuPG (Gpg4Win). My purpose is to be able to create encrypted files for exchange via email. No integration with an email client such as Thunderbird. Therefore I need to be able to execute Kleopatra or GPA. Unfortunately Kleopatra does not work. I tried both

Re: Protecting IDs at a key signing party

2010-12-08 Thread James P. Howard, II
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 15:20, Hank Ivy hank...@hot.rr.com wrote: What should I take?  How should I organize, and protect the IDs? Take two. A driver's license and a passport would be best, though one probably authenticated you for the other. To protect them, put them in your wallet or pocket.

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-05 Thread James P. Howard, II
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/5/10 1:46 PM, Snaky Love wrote: About GSWoT - does this cover my described use-case? I don´t quite get it from a first glance on the website... Actually, no, not at all. - -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS CAPM CGFM -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-04 Thread James P. Howard, II
wonder if the key management issue would be simpler if there were a master key, group members were an ADK, and GnuPGP supported ADK. James - -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS CGFM -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMWg8oAAoJEHPMAEw+5CSeBJQH/3tCo8vwsGR0mW5l4ul2YR8j

Re: User ID without email address

2010-07-23 Thread James P. Howard, II
On 7/23/10 11:51 AM, war_is_pe...@privatdemail.net wrote: Does that make sense? Are there known problems if a (primary) user ID doesn't contain any email address? Nope! Check out 0xE6602099 for my key with a primary uid of James Patrick Howard, II. James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS

Problem with smartcards and scdaemon

2010-07-16 Thread James P. Howard, II
am using a Mac with 10.6.x and have done this with MacGPG 2.0.12 and 2.0.14. James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS CGFM signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org

Re: Problem with smartcards and scdaemon

2010-07-16 Thread James P. Howard, II
On 7/16/10 12:50 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: Do you definitely have to replug it, or is killing scdaemon sufficient? Both are necessary. -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS CGFM ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org

Re: Test mail to mijiaail...@gmail.com

2010-06-14 Thread P.
It's not me. No problem. Le vendredi 11 juin 2010 à 09:38 +0200, Werner Koch a écrit : Hi! One of the subscribers to this list created a mail forward to an automated ticketing system which responds to the the poster. The owner of the ticketing system at secure.mpcustomer.com does not

Re: Crypto Stick released!

2010-06-03 Thread James P. Howard, II
signatures with hashes other than SHA1 or RIPEMD160. James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS CGFM signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg

Re: Crypto Stick released!

2010-06-03 Thread James P. Howard, II
up 3072 total. I noted that, too, but I currently have three 2048 bit keys on my card. James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS CGFM signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: Crypto Stick released!

2010-05-25 Thread James P. Howard, II
take it I am missing something obvious in this? James - -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS CGFM j...@jameshoward.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJL+87BAAoJEHPMAEw+5CSeGCQH/3cv2suaLFZTptKkALg2XZa6 FRCpJ4um4QsO+xwwdNBQ314XYSWBjmVkvrwHIAYHkzBDwdbbRpH+yrZz41S6T98/ EIRfY4K5zI5dDA+Q6fu

Re: Crypto Stick released!

2010-05-25 Thread James P. Howard, II
On 5/25/10 10:07 AM, Hauke Laging wrote: What is the gpg version you use? IIRC You need 2.0.13 or 2.0.14 for 2048 bit keys on a smartcard. That did the trick! I was on 2.0.12 and moved to 2.0.14. -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS CGFM j...@jameshoward.us

Re: [gnupg-users] same key pair for more than one e-mail address

2009-12-18 Thread James P. Howard, II
P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS j...@jameshoward.us pgp529PvAKpnX.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Possible bug: addkey can create certifying subkey

2009-09-01 Thread James P. Howard, II
by the certifying subkey and may have undually dwelt on it. James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA j...@jameshoward.us signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman

Possible bug: addkey can create certifying subkey

2009-08-31 Thread James P. Howard, II
, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 howar...@thermopylae:~$ -- James P. Howard, II, MPA j...@jameshoward.us signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org

Re: Encryption keys in the OpenPGP spec

2009-07-27 Thread James P. Howard, II
this, too. But since I also do not claim any special wisdom on the issue, I was hoping someone would. Since we all seem to agree that communication and storage is difficult to distinguish, can someone suggest why different keys may be desired in different circumstances? James -- James P. Howard, II

Encryption keys in the OpenPGP spec

2009-07-26 Thread James P. Howard, II
key types? Thank you, James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA j...@jameshoward.us signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Question about authentication subkeys and SSH

2009-07-22 Thread James P. Howard, II
On Wed Jul 22 2009 16:12:34 GMT-0400 (EDT) , Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: On 07/22/2009 03:59 PM, James P. Howard, II wrote: I have created a 2048-bit RSA subkey that is authentication only. I'd like to use this with SSH. A bit of Googling suggests this cannot be used

Re: How to verify lot of .sig files in lot of subdirectories with script

2009-07-19 Thread James P. Howard, II
is assumption on the file to be verified and as a result, you can see the signature following the name. More complex variants on this may be possible. James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA j...@jameshoward.us signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: backup all keys of DSA+ELG pair?

2009-06-05 Thread James P. Howard, II
for each of 3 previous commands failed me... Also the same, if I used key IDs. How to do it? When you perform the import, you must use --allow-secret-key-import but unless you intended not to use the master signing key, you should not use --export-secret-subkeys. James -- James P. Howard, II

Re: There are actually two public keys?

2009-05-19 Thread James P. Howard, II
this, you have to have the key in primary key form in the (local) web of trust. If you don't, then the signatures won't be used. Well, I did succeed in doing it last night as a test. So I guess the bigger question, is it poor etiquette? James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA j...@jameshoward.us

Re: There are actually two public keys?

2009-05-18 Thread James P. Howard, II
-- James P. Howard, II, MPA j...@jameshoward.us signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: There are actually two public keys?

2009-05-16 Thread James P. Howard, II
, the private part of the encryption keypair is used to decrypt documents; the public part is used to encrypt them. Can anyone explain why there is a difference between signing and encrypting keypairs, even for the same type (RSA)? James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA j...@jameshoward.us

Re: questions: no input file, and pascal programming

2009-05-03 Thread James P. Howard, II
-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- James P. Howard, II, MPA j...@jameshoward.us signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman

Re: Subkeys...

2009-04-28 Thread James P. Howard, II
. James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA j...@jameshoward.us ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Safety of the key and it's length

2009-01-26 Thread James P. Howard, II
means instead. It's best not to obsess over key size. Larger is not better, but it's not as if it hurts you, either. There are some ancient keys out there which are 512 bits (and I think I've seen smaller). Are these likely still secure enough to use? -- James P. Howard, II, MPA j

Re: [admin] What is top posting, and why should you avoid it?

2008-07-17 Thread James P. Howard, II
the temptation. Best, John -- John P. Clizbe Inet: John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Q:Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations? A:An odd melody

Re: Timestamping Service: Existing Services or Software Project?

2008-04-25 Thread James P. Howard, II
Aha! My provider fixed a doohickey somewhere (it was an error in a mail forwarding configuration file) and it now works. James On 4/23/08, James P. Howard, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is embarrassing. I've contacted my provider to find out why mail is bouncing. Thank you, James

Re: Timestamping Service: Existing Services or Software Project?

2008-04-23 Thread James P. Howard, II
___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- James P. Howard, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jameshoward.us ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman

Re: Timestamping Service: Existing Services or Software Project?

2008-04-23 Thread James P. Howard, II
Yep, sorry about that. Try this instead: http://jameshoward.us/robot-digital-signature-authority James -- James P. Howard, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jameshoward.us -Original Message- From: Sven Radde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:58:09 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Timestamping Service: Existing Services or Software Project?

2008-04-23 Thread James P. Howard, II
This is embarrassing. I've contacted my provider to find out why mail is bouncing. Thank you, James On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Charly Avital [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James P. Howard wrote the following on 4/23/08 12:08 PM: Yep, sorry about that. Try this instead: http

Re: editing User ID

2008-04-22 Thread James P. Howard, II
and it won't get revoked by simply deleting it from the original key. Sorry if I misunderstood the point... ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- James P. Howard, II [EMAIL PROTECTED

Question about Smart Cards and GPG

2008-03-19 Thread James P. Howard, II
? Thank you, James 1. http://gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto-single.html -- James P. Howard, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jameshoward.us pgpsI34I98Ria.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http