Re: Compiling GnuPG 1.4.5 for Windows on Windows

2006-09-11 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Was Sat, 09 Sep 2006, at 11:28:26 -0500, when Troy wrote: >>> Werner Koch wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:57, Mica Mijatovic said: > Pretty easy. You only need to take the po/gnupg.pot file, copy it to po/en.po, transla

Re: Need non-writable --homedir

2006-09-11 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Josef Wolf wrote: > Don't most unices have /dev/random nowadays? I never planned to run > this thing on a windows box :) GnuPG has been ported to many platforms. BeOS, OpenVMS, Win32, and many more that have no /dev/random. > Hmm, the only drawback I see is a slowdown. The application will > j

Cardreader installation

2006-09-11 Thread Donald Wayne Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I switched from XP to Ubuntu 6.06, now the SCR338 cardreader built into the keyboard doesn't work. ~$ gpg --card-status gpg: selecting openpgp failed: ec=6.108 gpg: OpenPGP card not available: general error lsusb reports: Bus 004 Device 001: ID

Re: Need non-writable --homedir

2006-09-11 Thread Josef Wolf
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 03:27:59PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > 1. /dev/random isn't available on all platforms. GnuPG's random number > generator is. Don't most unices have /dev/random nowadays? I never planned to run this thing on a windows box :) > 2. /dev/rand

Re: Need non-writable --homedir

2006-09-11 Thread Robert J. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Josef Wolf wrote: > I wondered why /dev/random is not used. A few reasons, any one of which would be sufficient. 1. /dev/random isn't available on all platforms. GnuPG's random number generator is. 2. /dev/random is exhaustible. This is a Bad

Re: Need non-writable --homedir

2006-09-11 Thread Josef Wolf
Thanks for your response, Robert! On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 05:36:33PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > > 1. It locks the keyring. --lock-never will avoid this. Is it safe > > to use --lock-never as long as it is guaranteed that _only_ "gpg -e" > > is ever run? No ke

Problem mit gpgcard

2006-09-11 Thread K. W. Holzweißig
Hi. I am having a problem with my smartcard. I am running Suse 10.1 and my card has worked previously under Suse 10.0. Here is my debug log. Can anybody give me an advice? Cheers! Kai gpg: DBG: ccid-driver: using CCID reader 0 (ID=04E6:5115:21120617208494:0) gpg: DBG: ccid-driver: idVendor: 04E6

Re: codeset conversion issue with GnuPG 1.4.x on HP-UX 11.0

2006-09-11 Thread mike . keighley
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:33, Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It is possible that the iconv detection does not work. > And yes, we are falling back to an internal iconv replacement. > Look into util/strgutil.c: > You might want to just add a line >|| !ascii_strcasecmp (newset, "885

Re: Need non-writable --homedir

2006-09-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:16, Josef Wolf said: > 1. It locks the keyring. --lock-never will avoid this. Is it safe > to use --lock-never as long as it is guaranteed that _only_ "gpg -e" If the keyrings are read-only, there is no need for locking. Thus --lock-never is safe. > 2. There's the