Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.6 released

2007-08-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Isn't bzip2 compression supported any longer? > Because with 1.1.2 i get: I can't remember that we ever supported bzip 2 under Windows. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahmen regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. __

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.6 released

2007-08-20 Thread Kai Raven
Hi, > On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> Isn't bzip2 compression supported any longer? >> Because with 1.1.2 i get: > > I can't remember that we ever supported bzip 2 under Windows. What? From gpg4win 1.0.9/GnuPG 1.4.7: Compression: Uncompressed (Z0), ZIP (Z1), ZLIB (Z2),

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.6 released

2007-08-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Compression: Uncompressed (Z0), ZIP (Z1), ZLIB (Z2), BZIP2 (Z3) Interesting. I switched the box used to build the installer at some point and the fresh toolchain there does not come with libbz2. On the old box I used a toolchain with libbz2.

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.6 released

2007-08-20 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Werner Koch schrieb: > I can't remember that we ever supported bzip 2 under Windows. Here you go (installed gpg4win v1.1.0): C:\Programme\GnuPG>gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7 (...) Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256,

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.6 released

2007-08-20 Thread Crest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am 20.08.2007 um 11:13 schrieb Kai Raven: > Hi, > >> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> >>> Isn't bzip2 compression supported any longer? >>> Because with 1.1.2 i get: >> >> I can't remember that we ever supported bzip 2 under Wi

A Passphrase Problem

2007-08-20 Thread Victor Stuart
Hi all, I'm a newbie, and have some problems with the software. I generated a pair of keys, and set the password for the secret key. Then I just noticed the option "--passphrase-file" in the manual, and quite appreciated that. I wanted to use a file as a passphrase, instead of a string. So I ju

GnuPG & OpenSSH

2007-08-20 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
I've lightly read through a few gnupg man & info pages, though my questions might sound like FAQ or outright annoying :-). I'm a happy user with OpenSSH & GPG independently, but of late am trying to find if it's possible to unify them with just a key pair. 1. Is it possible to have only one key pa

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.6 released

2007-08-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I used bzip2 for a while now an one day about a month ago i send a > mail to a windows user an he was unable to open the mail bc his gpg > installation didn't support bzip2. BZIP2 is an optional OpenPGP feature and not widely used. Using i

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.6 released

2007-08-20 Thread Victor Stuart
On 8/20/07, Crest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 20.08.2007 um 11:13 schrieb Kai Raven: > > > Hi, > > > >> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> > >>> Isn't bzip2 compression supported any longer? > >>> Because with 1.1.2 i get: > >> > >> I can't remember that we ever supported

Re: GnuPG & OpenSSH

2007-08-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 1. Is it possible to have only one key pair (public & secret pref. DSA) that > can be used for both GPG & OpenSSH? (as a sys admin of some interest in > cryptography, this is an important question) Yes. However you want separate keys for separ

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.6 released

2007-08-20 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Victor Stuart wrote: > Well, I use GnuPG 1.4.7 and 2.0.6 compiled by MingW32, they don't > support bzip2. I Compile the 1.4.Branch using MinGW & I have bzip2. Did You remember to include it when compiling? JOHN ;) Timestamp: Monday 20 Aug 200

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.6 released

2007-08-20 Thread John Clizbe
Victor Stuart wrote: > Well, I use GnuPG 1.4.7 and 2.0.6 compiled by MingW32, they don't > support bzip2. Well, maybe not the 1.4.7 you are using from GPG4WIN as Werner pointed out earlier, but it *is* part of the 1.4.7 available from gnupg.org. Installer available at: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcr

Re: GnuPG & OpenSSH

2007-08-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
> 1. Is it possible to have only one key pair (public & secret pref. DSA) that > can be used for both GPG & OpenSSH? (as a sys admin of some interest in > cryptography, this is an important question) Uhm, possible... sure, why not. I just don't know right now how one would achive that. > 2.

Compression routines - please include 7-Zip

2007-08-20 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
Werner: Für die Unterzeichnung danke. This is amazing for somebody whose father was run out of nothern Mexico (Me-hico) by Pancho Villa's raiders. I have been using the 7-Zip compression long enough to give Igor Pavlov the nod he has longed for. Bzip2 is good. 7-Zip is better. If you want to kn

Re: GnuPG & OpenSSH

2007-08-20 Thread James Davis
Werner Koch wrote: > Me too ;-). There are some text fragments floating around but there is > no real HOWTO. Steps 1-4 on this page still apply if you're not using a smart card. You'll want to use ssh-add to add keys rather than expect it to pick them up automatically though. http://www.fsfe.

Re: Compression routines - please include 7-Zip

2007-08-20 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > I am used to the forty years that Microsoft takes. MS's implementation of zip compression is known to be ridiculously slow. Most other zip implementations are orders of magnitude faster. > Tell Richard Stallman to stop toking up long enough so that we can > discuss th

Re: Compression routines - please include 7-Zip

2007-08-20 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > It is so blisteringly fast that it is time to give credit where > credit is due. I had it updating our (my?) PAC filter. Even with > copying the executable for 7zip.exe on Windows it is so blisteringly > fast I can't

Re: Compression routines - please include 7-Zip

2007-08-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > If you are interested in pitching this, I would suggest pitching it to > the IETF. GnuPG's typical position is to only support the RFC, without > any embrace-and-extend. Right, we won't support things which are not in the standard or at least

Re: Compression routines - please include 7-Zip

2007-08-20 Thread John Clizbe
Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> If you are interested in pitching this, I would suggest pitching it to >> the IETF. GnuPG's typical position is to only support the RFC, without >> any embrace-and-extend. > > Right, we won't support things which are not i

Re: gnupg 2.0.2 and funopen/fopencookie on Solaris 8

2007-08-20 Thread Brian C. Hill
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:53, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:17, bchill at bch.net said: > > > How have other managed to build gnupg on SunOS 5.8? > > You can't build GnuPG 2 on a system without funopen. We will > eventually solve this by replacing most stdio operations by a our o

Re: Compression routines - please include 7-Zip

2007-08-20 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
Settle down. I am arguing for the inclusion of 7zip IN THE FUTURE! I am just afraid it is going to get overlooked again yet one more time. The fact that 7zip doesn't store the UID:GID is a plus in my mind. It allows you to get what ever UID:GID YOU are when you unzip it. That is better than som

Re: Compression routines - please include 7-Zip

2007-08-20 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > Settle down. I am arguing for the inclusion of 7zip IN THE FUTURE! Once more, this mailing list is not the correct forum to raise your concerns. Please do it on the IETF OpenPGP WG mailing list. > What I am arguing for is NOT to forget 7zip exists > when you do the n