Re: Unknown key in gpg-agent

2020-08-25 Thread Klaus Ethgen via Gnupg-users
Hi Werner, Am Di den 25. Aug 2020 um 14:12 schrieb Werner Koch: > Just to be sure, you quoted the ampersand, right. It works for me and > some GnuPG components are using it a lot. Just a quick test: ~> gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.20 libgcrypt 1.8.6 ... ~> gpg --list-secret-keys

Re: Password Decript GPG public key

2020-08-25 Thread Stefan Claas
ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > > > On 8/25/2020 at 3:21 PM, "Stefan Claas" wrote: > > > >Maybe he could try to use a secret key without a passphrase and > >give then the secret key personally to his friend? > > = > > And just have the ascii armored text of the secret key as the passph

Re: Password Decript GPG public key

2020-08-25 Thread vedaal via Gnupg-users
On 8/25/2020 at 3:21 PM, "Stefan Claas" wrote: >Maybe he could try to use a secret key without a passphrase and >give then the secret key personally to his friend? = And just have the ascii armored text of the secret key as the passphrase for the symmetrically encrypted text? There

Re: Password Decript GPG public key

2020-08-25 Thread Stefan Claas
vedaal via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > On 8/24/2020 at 8:36 AM, "Guille De La Torre via Gnupg-users" > wrote: > > > is it possible to create a key for symmetric encryption > >in such a way that the person who has my public key does not need > >to enter a password? to decrypt. > > = > No.

Re: Why does gpg -k write to tofu.db?

2020-08-25 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 14:56, Brian Minton said: > Why does gpg -k need to write to the tofu db? I should mention that gpg > is running at 100% cpu in the R state. Before starting the gpg -k I was not able to replicate it but I must say that I don't have a large useful tofu.db. AFAICS, gpg someti

Re: Unknown key in gpg-agent

2020-08-25 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:31, Klaus Ethgen said: > However, `gpg --list-keys --list-options show-unusable-subkeys > --with-keygrip` does not display this keygrip. You can also use gpg -k \&KEYGRIP to list a key. And with gpgsm use gpgsm -k --with-ephemeral-keys \&KEYGRIP to see whether ther