Deleting or renaming $HOME/.gnugpg

[Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users]

What will happen to gpg if I rename $HOME/.gnupg and start a new 
$HOME/.gnupg. I have not shared any of the keys and starting anew will 
not have any consequences to me or anybody else. What will it do to the 
gnupg?



Will it allow me to get on with my work while at the same time be able 
to revert back to the old configs by renaming directories, just to 
answer questions from the list trying to help me. Will this scenario work?



Thanks,


Ayoub


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No single-page manual on gnupg.org (was: Passphrase Pop up)

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

Dmitry Alexandrov  wrote:
> — (info "(gnupg) GPG Esoteric Options")

Or 

 on the WWW.

Which reminds me...

Dear Werner (or anyone else who can edit the website),

it would really help those, who do not use Emacs (itʼs odd, but there are such 
people!), if there would be single-page version of the manual (makeinfo --html 
--no-split ...) — just like all software on gnu.org has.


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Re: Passphrase Pop up

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

Ian Maclauchlan  wrote:
> Hi there we recently upgrade our Windows server from 2008 to 2019 and Gnu to 
> 3.1.12

??

GNU is a vague operating system (just like, e. g., ‘UNIX’) and it has no 
versions per se.

GnuPG version 3 does not exist yet.  The stable release is 2.2.21.

I guess, you mean GnuPG 2.1.12.  (Why not the latest, by the way?)

> Since then the command line
>
> type passphrase.txt | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --no-tty --batch -o exp.txt -d 
> extract_ *.txt.pgp
>
> has stopped working as the passphrase window keeps popping up.

> Can someone please help me.

‘The GNU Privacy Guard Manual’ can (emphasis mine):

| '--passphrase-fd N'
|  Read the passphrase from file descriptor N.  Only the first line
|  will be read from file descriptor N.  If you use 0 for N, the
|  passphrase will be read from STDIN. This can only be used if only
|  one passphrase is supplied.
|
|  Note that since Version 2.0 this passphrase is only used if the
|  option '--batch' has also been given.  Since Version 2.1 the
|  *'--pinentry-mode'* also needs to be set to 'loopback'.

— (info "(gnupg) GPG Esoteric Options")


> The information in this email is confidential...

Nope, youʼve just posted it to the public mailing list.


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Re: Passphrase Pop up

[Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users]

If this is run as a scheduled task and with the passphrase kept in a text file, 
perhaps just remove the passphrase?

On 2020-07-25T07:30:50+ Ian Maclauchlan 
 wrote 8.1K bytes:

> Hi there we recently upgrade our Windows server from 2008 to 2019 and Gnu to 
> 3.1.12
> 
> Since then the command line
> 
> type passphrase.txt | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --no-tty --batch -o exp.txt -d 
> extract_ *.txt.pgp
> 
> has stopped working as the passphrase window keeps popping up.
> 
> we run this as a schedule task.
> 
> Can someone please help me.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> Ian MacLauchlan
> Business Systems Administrator
> SmartStream Technologies (Bristol) Limited
> 1690 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol BS32 4RA
> 
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> 
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Passphrase Pop up

[Ian Maclauchlan]

Hi there we recently upgrade our Windows server from 2008 to 2019 and Gnu to 
3.1.12

Since then the command line

type passphrase.txt | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --no-tty --batch -o exp.txt -d 
extract_ *.txt.pgp

has stopped working as the passphrase window keeps popping up.

we run this as a schedule task.

Can someone please help me.

Regards



Ian MacLauchlan
Business Systems Administrator
SmartStream Technologies (Bristol) Limited
1690 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol BS32 4RA

Tel :  +44 (0) 1454 855 146
Mob  :  +44 (0) 777 339 1045
Switch   :  +44 (0) 1454 617 020

Email  
ian.maclauch...@smartstream-stp.com
www.smartstream-stp.com


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question regarding using gpg to verify a file from a .sign file

[Semih Ozlem via Gnupg-users]

Hi

I am trying to follow the directions on the page
https://www.debian.org/CD/verify
for verifying authenticity of CDs (meaning the iso files downloaded from
debian's page). The page has iso files then SHAxSUM files and SHAxSUM.sign
files.

I have already run sha512sum command to verify the iso file. But I am
having difficulty in the next step... which is

" To ensure that the checksums files themselves are correct, use GnuPG to
verify them against the accompanying signature files (e.g. SHA512SUMS.sign).
The keys used for these signatures are all in the Debian GPG keyring
 and the best way to check them is to use that
keyring to validate via the web of trust. To make life easier for users,
here are the fingerprints for the keys that have been used for releases in
recent years:"

quoted from the page https://www.debian.org/CD/verify

when I run the command

gpg --verify SHAxSUM.sign SHAxSUM

I get the following message

gpgv: unknown type of key resource 'trustedkeys.kbx'
gpgv: keyblock resource '/home/user/.gnupg/trustedkeys.kbx': General error
gpgv: Signature made Sun 10 May 2020 03:17:55 AM +03
gpgv:using RSA key DF9B9C49EAA9298432589D76DA87E80D6294BE9B
gpgv: Can't check signature: No public key

How should I proceed to check signature.

Thank you in advance for your help
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Re: Why is there no secret key?

[Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users]

I am not asked for pass phrase.

The following lines show you what I have in the ".conf-file"


###
###
#
# Lines uncommented in $HOME/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
log-file $HOME/gpg-log.txt
# The same thing happens when I comment this line out
allow-loopback-pinentry

batch

###
###
# Lines uncommented in $HOME/.gnupg/gpg.conf

batch
require-secmem
no-greeting


Ayoub

On 7/26/2020 2:49 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote:

On 20/07/2020 20:25, Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users wrote:

gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

Are your gpg.conf and gpg-agent.conf (or let's just say any .conf-file
in your GnuPG home, ~/.gnupg) empty? Do you get a pinentry popup asking
for a passphrase?

Peter.



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Re: Newbie question.

[Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users]

I understand it can be frustrating, especially if nobody has a deciding 
vote or Vito power or moderator power. Someone should have have veto 
power and anybody with other ideas can always fork and do his own thing. 
That way it may probably work. A tyrant can stay on course and others 
fork and be their own tyrant and are free to produce something better.



The moderators on this list (I do not know who they are) have been 
tyrannical excluding some of my posts; I am not bitter or resentful. I 
have to live up to standard and my posts have to be kind and gentle so 
as not to burden those trying to help me for free; and amenable to 
support by helping whoever is helping me. If there was no tyrant I could 
have caused nuisance. Documentation needs a tyrant too.



On 7/26/2020 12:01 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:

How about collective and cooperative effort in a wiki, or cloud funding
pledges or donations? Those who contribute (money or effort) get
privilege of some kind.

I am very pessimistic about the idea of collective effort.  What
experience has taught me from working on the FAQ is that a small number
of people with extreme ideas speak up the loudest, and the vast majority
of users who are calm and reasonable speak up barely at all.


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Re: Newbie question.

[Robert J. Hansen]

> How about collective and cooperative effort in a wiki, or cloud funding
> pledges or donations? Those who contribute (money or effort) get
> privilege of some kind.

I am very pessimistic about the idea of collective effort.  What
experience has taught me from working on the FAQ is that a small number
of people with extreme ideas speak up the loudest, and the vast majority
of users who are calm and reasonable speak up barely at all.


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Re: Newbie question.

[Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users]

How about collective and cooperative effort in a wiki, or cloud funding 
pledges or donations? Those who contribute (money or effort) get 
privilege of some kind.



On 7/26/2020 2:48 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote:

On 12/07/2020 20:01, Ayoub Misherghi wrote:

Can you please suggest some good tutorial and reference material
preferably free (probably mutually exclusive requirements) that will
bring me up to your level or close to it please.

No, I think the available documentation is lacking in quality. And
on the other hand there's a lot of bad advice on websites. It's an
unfortunate situation, but few people enjoy writing good documentation.
It is a very laborious process.

Sorry I can't be of better assistance.

Peter.



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Re: Why is there no secret key?

[Peter Lebbing]

On 20/07/2020 20:25, Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users wrote:
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

Are your gpg.conf and gpg-agent.conf (or let's just say any .conf-file
in your GnuPG home, ~/.gnupg) empty? Do you get a pinentry popup asking
for a passphrase?

Peter.

-- 
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Re: Newbie question.

[Peter Lebbing]

On 12/07/2020 20:01, Ayoub Misherghi wrote:
> Can you please suggest some good tutorial and reference material
> preferably free (probably mutually exclusive requirements) that will
> bring me up to your level or close to it please.

No, I think the available documentation is lacking in quality. And
on the other hand there's a lot of bad advice on websites. It's an
unfortunate situation, but few people enjoy writing good documentation.
It is a very laborious process.

Sorry I can't be of better assistance.

Peter.

-- 
I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail.
You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy.
My key is available at 



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