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 w

Re: [outlgpg] Questions on installing and using with Outlook 2003.

2005-07-30 Thread Timo Schulz
Patrick Dickey wrote: into the Windows\system32 directory. When I tried to do regsvr, I had to move the gpgexch.dll file to the Windows\System32 folder also. What Windows version do you use? I've never seen that this step is needed and I tested it on 98 and XP. What is the error or why do

[Announce] GPGee version 1.1.2 - Important Security Update

2005-07-30 Thread Kurt Fitzner
Version 1.1.2 of GPGee has been released. This release fixes a newly identified security issue. In previous versions of GPGee, the mechanism that was intended to overwrite passphrases after they were used had a flaw that prevented this from occuring. This makes is more likely (though still not v

Re: [outlgpg] Questions on installing and using with Outlook 2003.

2005-07-30 Thread Patrick Dickey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timo Schulz wrote: > Patrick Dickey wrote: > >> into the Windows\system32 directory. When I tried to do regsvr, >> I had to move the gpgexch.dll file to the Windows\System32 folder >> also. > > > What Windows version do you use? I've never seen that

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 1.4.2 released

2005-07-30 Thread Jason Harris
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG > release: Version 1.4.2 > What's New > === > * New experimental HKP keyserver helper that uses the cURL > library. It is enabled via the configure

optimizing gpg for the gpgme library

2005-07-30 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, I propose the following: split-up gpg into a front-end and a shared library. The shared library then contains all code for handling the keyring-files, doing the crypto-stuff, etc. while the front-end (just a normal executable) contains the code for parsing commandlines and calling the shared l

problem with certain commandline switches

2005-07-30 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, I'm trying to send my keys to the Tor pgp-keyservers. For that I use: gpg --keyserver=x-hkp://yod73zr3y6wnm2sw.onion --keyserver-options=honor-http-proxy,broken-http-proxy,http-proxy=http://192.168.64.1:8118/ --send-key 1f28d8ae but that doesn't work! I then get: gpg: sending

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 1.4.2 released

2005-07-30 Thread David Shaw
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:20:35PM -0400, Jason Harris wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > > > We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG > > release: Version 1.4.2 > > > What's New > > === > > > * New experimental HKP keyse