Re: why we need passphrase (I forgot something important in the prev procedure)

2008-06-28 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Afzal, Naeem M escribió: > How can I remove this restriction where I don't have to provide passphrase > and public key itself is good enough? > > Thanks > naeem I forgot a very important thing: after changing you passphrase, probably you will ha

Re: why we need passphrase

2008-06-28 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Afzal, Naeem M escribió: > How can I remove this restriction where I don't have to provide passphrase > and public key itself is good enough? The public key is never protected by the passphrase ( *as far as I know* I may be wrong), so anyway it s

RE: why we need passphrase

2008-06-28 Thread Afzal, Naeem M
How can I remove this restriction where I don't have to provide passphrase and public key itself is good enough? Thanks naeem >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Faramir >Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 11:08 AM >To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >S

A small question about GnuPG 2

2008-06-28 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Well, as far as I know, it adds support for s/MIME... and if I am not wrong, that would mean certificates like the ones issued by CAcert, Comodo, et all... But, is GnuPG capable of generating those certificates? Or we will still require OpenSSL or eq

Re: why we need passphrase

2008-06-28 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Afzal, Naeem M escribió: > Hi, > > In order to understand GnuPG, I tried to create private keys on two ubuntu > systems. Here are my steps and I would ask my question at the end as I need > to show what I did. > > 1. System A: Created private and