Re: Paperkey on windows

2009-01-09 Thread Charly Avital
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote the following on 1/9/09 8:15 PM: [...] > It is absolutely ok and encouraged to send paperkey to whoever wants > it. There are various ways to comply with the license (the GPL), but > one easy way is to do what you suggest and send

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:33:52PM -0500, Scott Lambdin wrote: > I found a file in rejects, but it may be partial. It gives us some > information, though. > > The pgp file was 406184088 bytes and unencrypted is 175246253 bytes. > > gpg -v -v -o a_file.out -d a_file.pgp > > gpg: armor: BEGIN PGP

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Scott Lambdin
Looks like Roscoe got it. literal data block that makes up the difference. Thanks everyone. Now to see if there is some reason for it. --Scott On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Scott Lambdin wrote: > I found a file in rejects, but it may be partial. It gives us some > information, though. >

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Scott Lambdin
I found a file in rejects, but it may be partial. It gives us some information, though. The pgp file was 406184088 bytes and unencrypted is 175246253 bytes. gpg -v -v -o a_file.out -d a_file.pgp gpg: armor: BEGIN PGP MESSAGE gpg: armor header: Version: McAfee E-Business Server v7.5 - Full Licen

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Roscoe
Dunno how likely it is, but maybe someone made an attempt at hiding the size of the file in transit via appending arbitrary data. 2009/1/10 Scott Lambdin : > Hello - > > Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt it the > resulting file is about half that size. Anyone ha

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Scott Lambdin escribió: ... > To get a still encrypted file, I would have to file a request to modify > a script and at least 3 groups would have to approve the request. And I > would have to wait at least 1 week before I actually made the change.

Re: Paperkey on windows

2009-01-09 Thread Allen Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If it is that questionable for anyone, you can always refer them back to the homepage to get the original source. http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ Allen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: http://getfi

Re: 5 - 2009-01-08 17:29:06 gpg-agent[31643.6] DBG: -> ERR 67108881 No secret key

2009-01-09 Thread Chris
On Friday 09 January 2009 07:02:52 Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:37, cpoll...@embarqmail.com said: > > What would cause this to be displayed in the log? My secret key has been > > imported and I can sign messages. After signing a message this error > > disappears. Any idea what is cau

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David Shaw wrote: > Not double. By definition ASCII armor is around 1/3 larger (actually > 137%) than the original document (not counting headers and such, but > they only amount to a few hundred bytes, not megs). I was assuming that "about double" was a term of art, and it was perhaps possible t

Re: Paperkey on windows

2009-01-09 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:05:50PM -0300, Faramir wrote: > Hello! > I while ago, there was some talk about Paperkey, and John Clizbe > was very kind and sent me the binary file compiled for ms-windows. > Today, in other list, I saw a question about "what about windows users?" > and paperkey,

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Scott Lambdin
It looks like all digits and capital letters. And some kind of spaces or tabs. It's not a bomb. These file come in routinely. All the ones I have looked at (ftp'd size vs the unencrypted file sitting in archive) are right about 2-to-1. To get a still encrypted file, I would have to file a req

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Scott Lambdin escribió: > Thanks for the offer but I would be put in Guantanamo bay if I did > that. ^_^ LOL... well, maybe you could ask the sender to send some harmless file to you, in order to check if the problem happens again... Best Rega

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 9, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Scott Lambdin wrote: Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt it the resulting file is about half that size. Anyone have an idea what they might be doing to swell it up like that? Option 1: they're not using co

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Scott Lambdin wrote: > Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt it > the resulting file is about half that size. Anyone have an idea what > they might be doing to swell it up like that? Option 1: they're not using compression and they're ASCII-armoring the file. You c

Re: Paperkey on windows

2009-01-09 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Faramir wrote: > If I understood the license the right way, I can send it, as long as > I include the source code... Not quite. The GPL doesn't require you to give source with the binary. It just requires that if you give someone a binary, you make sure they know they can also get the source fro

Re: PGP on Window 2003

2009-01-09 Thread Robert J. Hansen
John Clizbe wrote: > Pleaser take it completely private or Paul add the list to your replies. Bizarre; his emails to me are showing up as being cc'd to the list. Perhaps he's not a subscriber, and thus his emails to the list are being held pending moderation? If this is the case, Paul, it will do

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Scott Lambdin
--armor option swells it up some but doesn't double it. gpg -r B00BFACE --armor -e -z 0 vshell2.txt 43261322 Mar 6 2008 vshell2.txt 58583901 Jan 9 14:40 vshell2.txt.asc On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Scott Lambdin wrote: > Yes, even with compression disabled, my test files were about the

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Scott Lambdin
Yes, even with compression disabled, my test files were about the same size encrypted or not. Oh! armored? will test. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Faramir wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hello! > > Scott Lambdin escribió: > ... > > Someone sends us a big ~70

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Scott Lambdin
Thanks for the offer but I would be put in Guantanamo bay if I did that. ^_^ On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:45 PM, David Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 03:33:05PM -0500, Scott Lambdin wrote: > > Hello - > > > > Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt it > the > > r

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 03:33:05PM -0500, Scott Lambdin wrote: > Hello - > > Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt it the > resulting file is about half that size. Anyone have an idea what they might > be doing to swell it up like that? Most OpenPGP programs compre

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Matthias Mansfeld
On 9 Jan 2009 at 19:15, Faramir wrote: > Hello! > > Scott Lambdin escribió: > ... > > Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt > > it the resulting file is about half that size. Anyone have an idea > > what they might be doing to swell it up like that? > > That sou

Re: encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello! Scott Lambdin escribió: ... > Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt it > the resulting file is about half that size. Anyone have an idea what > they might be doing to swell it up like that? That sounds weird

encryption bloats file

2009-01-09 Thread Scott Lambdin
Hello - Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt it the resulting file is about half that size. Anyone have an idea what they might be doing to swell it up like that? -- There's a box? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-use

Paperkey on windows

2009-01-09 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello! I while ago, there was some talk about Paperkey, and John Clizbe was very kind and sent me the binary file compiled for ms-windows. Today, in other list, I saw a question about "what about windows users?" and paperkey, so, I wanted to as

Re: PGP on Window 2003

2009-01-09 Thread John Clizbe
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Strenger, Paul V. wrote: >> 1. What version of GnuPG are you using? >> gnupg-w32cli-1.2.3 > > This version is very old and has some known security problems. > Upgrading to 1.4.9 is definitely recommended. > > ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32cli-1.4

Re: PGP on Window 2003

2009-01-09 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Strenger, Paul V. wrote: > 1. What version of GnuPG are you using? > gnupg-w32cli-1.2.3 This version is very old and has some known security problems. Upgrading to 1.4.9 is definitely recommended. ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32cli-1.4.9.exe The error message you've at

Re: recover private key

2009-01-09 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 jakse escribió: > Does'nt look good ! i dont have secring.gpg but i doo have one called > secring.asc While I can't be sure about that, it looks VERY good... > does that help me? *I think* there is a good chance it is what you need. GnuPG uses

Re: PGP on Window 2003

2009-01-09 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Strenger, Paul V. wrote: > My mistake, it is GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and not PGP. Let me know if > you can still assist. We need to know a lot more details. Let's start with: 1. What version of GnuPG are you using? 2. From where did you get it? 3. What errors are you getting? 4. Does it work

Re: 5 - 2009-01-08 17:29:06 gpg-agent[31643.6] DBG: -> ERR 67108881 No secret key

2009-01-09 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:37, cpoll...@embarqmail.com said: > What would cause this to be displayed in the log? My secret key has been > imported and I can sign messages. After signing a message this error > disappears. Any idea what is causing this? There is a gpg-agent command HAVEKEY which is us

Re: PGP on Window 2003

2009-01-09 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Strenger, Paul V. wrote: > Hello, we are creating a new VM Windows 2003 server and are trying > to mirror it like our old VM Windows 2000 VM server. We are currently > running Active Perl 5.8 to use for our PGP Encryption processes and the > encryption is not working properly on the new machine

Re: recover private key

2009-01-09 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 jakse wrote: > Does'nt look good ! i dont have secring.gpg but i doo have one called > secring.asc Try Importing secring.asc into GPG. JOHN ;) Timestamp: Friday 09 Jan 2009, 07:37 --500 (Eastern Standard Time) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

[Announce] Libksba 1.0.5 released

2009-01-09 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! We are pleased to announce version 1.0.5 of Libksba. Libksba is an X.509 and CMS (PKCS#7) library. It is for example required to build the S/MIME part of GnuPG-2 (gpgsm). The only build requirement for Libksba itself is the libgpg-error package. There are no other dependencies; actual c

[Announce] Signing key updated

2009-01-09 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! The key used to sign GnuPG releases expired at the end of last year. The original plan was to create a new key using a 2048 bit RSA capable smartcard. However those smartcards will become generally available only in a few months months and I need to crank out new releases earlier. Thus I dec

PGP on Window 2003

2009-01-09 Thread Strenger, Paul V.
Hello, we are creating a new VM Windows 2003 server and are trying to mirror it like our old VM Windows 2000 VM server. We are currently running Active Perl 5.8 to use for our PGP Encryption processes and the encryption is not working properly on the new machine. We downloaded the version from

Re: recover private key

2009-01-09 Thread jakse
Does'nt look good ! i dont have secring.gpg but i doo have one called secring.asc does that help me? Thanks for the answers! Faramir-2 wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > jakse escribió: >> dear forum. >> >> I am using GnuPG on my mac. had a problem and had to