Separate Fingerprint for elGamal-Subkey?

2007-10-22 Thread Pitigrilli
Someone to whom I had recently sent my public key just called me to verify the Fingerprint of my key, created with gpg4win-1.1.3. I chose my key pair in the Windows privacy Tray and double clicked on it to tell him the fingerprint, and he confirmed it. The guy then told me Now let's check the

gnupg refuses to work on a read-only filesystem

2007-10-22 Thread Daniel Mierswa
What do i have to pass to gpg to work on a read-only filesystem and a homedir which is not available? Meaning to be forced to not create anything except messages on stdout and stderr and to be forced to not read anything except the key i want to decrypt. I tried passing the switches --keyring

GnuPG incompatible with windows-vista ?

2007-10-22 Thread Hermann F. Schulze
Sorry Sir, unfortunaltely I cannot download the patched gpg.exe. May You help me? Thanks -- Hermann F. Schulze Obere Waldstr. 13 D-42929 Wermelskirchen FON: +49-2196-95460 MOBIL: +49-177-88-27788 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bank:Volksbank RS-SG BLZ: 340 600 94 KTO: 930 875 -

Re: PGP messages getting flagged as spam

2007-10-22 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Quite some tima ago a have seen Spams with a (obviously bogus) ---BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--- + garbage part at the end of the mails. This might have had negative influence on some Bayesian databases. Apart from creating a special Spamassassin module which actually verifies incoming emails, I

Question regarding libgcrypt and openSuse 10.3

2007-10-22 Thread Werner Dittmann
All, after updating to openSuse 10.3 I tried to rebuild a project that uses libgcrypt as a shared library. Using 10.2 I had no problems so far. When linking my own shared library I get the following error message from libtool: /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE

Public/Private Keys - Consequences

2007-10-22 Thread christopher dubois
Sorry I don't know much about this as I am just beginning, but what are the dangers if you submit your key to a keyserver and make at available to the public? I am aware that users who want to communicate with me securely can import my key from a keyserver and add it to their keyring. But I want

Re: Public/Private Keys - Consequences

2007-10-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
christopher dubois wrote: Sorry I don't know much about this as I am just beginning, but what are the dangers if you submit your key to a keyserver and make at available to the public? Short answer: dwarfed by the benefits is the best answer. Long answer: there's a marginal risk of increased

Re: Separate Fingerprint for elGamal-Subkey?

2007-10-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Pitigrilli wrote: I thought that there is only one fingerprint and that this would be sufficient to confirm the integrity of the public key. Can any please provide me with some information? Thanks, Pitigrilli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --fingerprint --fingerprint --list-key 0x5b8709eb pub

Re: Public/Private Keys - Consequences

2007-10-22 Thread David SMITH
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:39:04AM -0700, christopher dubois wrote: Sorry I don't know much about this as I am just beginning, but what are the dangers if you submit your key to a keyserver and make at available to the public? When you submit your key to a keyserver, you only submit the

Re: Trouble with keyservers

2007-10-22 Thread David Shaw
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:45:56PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, David Shaw wrote: Or to be more accurate, you DO have a key for encryption, but the keyserver isn't storing it. This is a well-known keyserver bug with the pksd keyserver software, Out of curiosity, what

Re: Separate Fingerprint for elGamal-Subkey?

2007-10-22 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:47:51AM -0700, Pitigrilli wrote: Someone to whom I had recently sent my public key just called me to verify the Fingerprint of my key, created with gpg4win-1.1.3. I chose my key pair in the Windows privacy Tray and double clicked on it to tell him the fingerprint,

Re: Separate Fingerprint for elGamal-Subkey?

2007-10-22 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Pitigrilli schrieb: I thought that there is only one fingerprint and that this would be sufficient to confirm the integrity of the public key. All your subkeys are signed by your primary key (see gpg --list-sigs, the lines with sig after each sub line). Therefore, verifying the fingerprints

For Mac users: the oncoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

2007-10-22 Thread Charly Avital
Thanks in advance for any information from any Mac user or Mac developer that has already tested GnuPG, and gpg2, as well as Thunderbird+Enigmail under the new operating system. I have read that users of PGP (PGP Corporation) expect unpleasant surprises. Charly

Re: For Mac users: the oncoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

2007-10-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Charly Avital wrote: Thanks in advance for any information from any Mac user or Mac developer that has already tested GnuPG, and gpg2, as well as Thunderbird+Enigmail under the new operating system. I will eat my own hat if GnuPG has any problems whatsoever with Leopard. From all that I know

Re: For Mac users: the oncoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Robert J. Hansen wrote: I will eat my own hat if GnuPG has any problems whatsoever with Leopard. From all that I know of Leopard, GnuPG will continue to work just fine. I will be getting Leopard very soon after release. If there are any

Re: For Mac users: the oncoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

2007-10-22 Thread R.A. Hettinga
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