Re: identical files - non-identical encrypted files

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ian Zimmerman wrote: | I just noticed this today. I suppose this is completely obvious to most | readers of the list and perhaps not something they want to be bothered with; | apalogies if that's the case. I have a problem to solve :( [snip] | So

Re: identical files - non-identical encrypted files

2008-07-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ian Zimmerman wrote: ... | apalogies if that's the case. I have a problem to solve :( [snip] | So I suppose gpg puts some salt probably based on timestamp in. Can this | be disabled? Pretty please? In my experience, people here is very

Re: identical files - non-identical encrypted files

2008-07-22 Thread David Picón Álvarez
If you need to have this guarantee, you could try overriding the session key. Note you will lose security by the bucketload by doing so. I really would not advice it. If you're trying to have some kind of filesystem encryption (which is my impression, but not sure) gnupg is not the best tool.

Re: so how do you get others to sign your key?

2008-07-22 Thread David SMITH
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:59:36PM -0700, kurt c wrote: When I looked at the listing of John's public key from a public key server, for example (John Clizbe, that is), I saw that he had all the other people's names listed with him, like Anthony Jones or Tony Jones or Robot CAs. I suppose these

Re: [admin] What is top posting, and why should you avoid it?

2008-07-22 Thread John Clizbe
Faramir wrote: Do you mean you can see the messages you send to the list? Then I have to check my config... I am using pop3 too. http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users Bottom of the page, enter email address and click 'Unsubscribe or edit options'. Enter list password and 'log

Re: can't verify my own signature

2008-07-22 Thread John Clizbe
kurt c wrote: Well, John, why is it then that when I sent an encrypted and signed message to this other Gmail account of mine without Enigmail, and clicked on Privacy Tray's clickboard - decrypt/verify, the message is both decrypted and verified as with good signature? If the message is

Re: [admin] What is top posting, and why should you avoid it?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Berg
Faramir wrote: Andrew Berg escribió: Faramir wrote: It happens too with pop3... I hate that feature... well, it (gmail) had to have some disadvantage... Not in my experience. That's why I use POP3 instead of IMAP. Do you mean you can see the messages you send to the list? Then I have to

Searching mail that arrived encrypted on Outlook Server

2008-07-22 Thread Eliot, Christopher
We use a typical Microsoft Outlook server setup. We use GPG to encrypt mail coming and going over those internet tube things. My problem is that I'd like to be able to use the Outlook search facility to search through old mail that I've received or sent. Right now it appears that any mail that

Re: can't verify my own signature

2008-07-22 Thread kurt c
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Clizbe wrote: kurt c wrote: Well, John, why is it then that when I sent an encrypted and signed message to this other Gmail account of mine without Enigmail, and clicked on Privacy Tray's clickboard - decrypt/verify, the message is both

export key: access denied

2008-07-22 Thread kurt c
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ah so sorry, I run into another problem. I followed the instruction and typed into my command prompt gpg --export - -a 0x8e758d5fmykey.asc in order to create an ASCII armored version of my key and somehow I got the reply: access is denied. Why?

Thanks

2008-07-22 Thread kurt c
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks David, Boris, Rick, and especially Kara and Charly for all the thorough explanations. And sorry for anybody if I've been only sending replies to you that I meant to send to the mailing list :P Stupid me, still clumsy with Thunderbird. I also

Re: so how do you get others to sign your key?

2008-07-22 Thread kurt c
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kurt c wrote: Well dumb me has another question. When I looked at the listing of John's public key from a public key server, for example (John Clizbe, that is), I saw that he had all the other people's names listed with him, like Anthony Jones

Re: so how do you get others to sign your key?

2008-07-22 Thread Rick Valenzuela
Lawrence/kurt c wrote: And remember my name is Lawrence. This kurt account I created on a whim to test Enigmail, so I just typed in some garbage, thinking that I'd discard it later. But no, I'm enjoying this Enigmail. And by the way, I live in Los Angeles. If anyone from here wants