ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-29 Thread Hardeep Singh
Hi All I recently looked at software called 'seccure' which is available for linux. Its a tool for public key encryption using ECC rather than prime number factoring. http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_elliptic_curve.cfm Here NSA is making a case for ECC. One advantage that does seem to

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Re: ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Hardeep Singh wrote: What do you all think about this? Should we start building an ECC WOT? :-) As soon as it gets added to the OpenPGP RFC, then we should. Until then, it's premature. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

beginner to gnupg

2007-10-29 Thread bjr149
I am very new to PGP. I understand the concept of a public key and a private key. I worked with a client who sent me their public key which was a nice text file. Im trying to export my public key to a text file but everytime I run it I get a bunch of jumble garbage. C:\GNU\GnuPGgpg --export

Re: Multiple recipients encryption

2007-10-29 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Noiano schrieb: I was wondering about how gnupg works when I encrypt a message for multiple recipients. As long as I know public-key encryption works as described in this image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Public_key_encryption.svg. This image is a simplified view

script to clean my keyring

2007-10-29 Thread Michael
Hello, I like to clean my key ring automatically. I have put the attached lines together to do this. But something is wrong, the script shows the data which need to be changed but the update is not saved. Experts, what is wrong here?? for i in `gpg --list-keys --fixed-list-mode --with-colons

Simple beginners questions about the gpg-smartcard

2007-10-29 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I just subsribed to the list. I'm using the gpg-smartcard and it just works for me. However, I have a couple of maybe really simple questions which weren't answered by the documentation I've read so far - yet. 1) Once I created my keypair

Re: ECC - how does it compare

2007-10-29 Thread Remco Post
Robert J. Hansen wrote: Hardeep Singh wrote: What do you all think about this? Should we start building an ECC WOT? :-) As soon as it gets added to the OpenPGP RFC, then we should. Until then, it's premature. So actually, you could, but you need to start lobbying to get it added to the

Re: beginner to gnupg

2007-10-29 Thread Sean Rima
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 bjr149 wrote: I am very new to PGP. I understand the concept of a public key and a private key. I worked with a client who sent me their public key which was a nice text file. Im trying to export my public key to a text file but everytime

GPG: Suddenly lost access to encryptet file

2007-10-29 Thread _fr0st
Hello, A couple of days ago, I startet a process to create a new encrypted LVM-partition, and move everything I got from the regular LVM to the encrypted one. Btw, I use loop-aes to encrypt my partition. Now, after some days, some unmounts/mounts, I suddenly gets Error: gpg key file decryption

Re: script to clean my keyring

2007-10-29 Thread John Clizbe
Michael wrote: I like to clean my key ring automatically. I have put the attached lines together to do this. But something is wrong, the script shows the data which need to be changed but the update is not saved. Experts, what is wrong here?? for i in `gpg --list-keys --fixed-list-mode

Re: beginner to gnupg

2007-10-29 Thread Ron Rogers Jr.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:45:27 -0700 (PDT) bjr149 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I worked with a client who sent me their public key which was a nice text file. Im trying to export my public key to a text file but everytime I run it I get a bunch of jumble garbage. C:\GNU\GnuPGgpg --export key

Subkey DSA signature changes after importing secret keyring

2007-10-29 Thread YYZ
Hi everyone! Can anyone exlain this strange gpg behavior, observed when I follow these steps? I use gpg to generate a key-pair using default options (1024D/2048g). Afterwards, I import the secret keyring into another account, and issue the following commands gpg --export and gpg