Re: Fw: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Dirk Zemisch
Hello Faramir, hello GnuPG users, On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:56:40 -0300 Faramir wrote: >> Thanks for the answers. I always was ready to burn my paperkey >> print. Now I don't need to do so. ;-) > But don't forget it also means if you forget your passphrase, you > are toasted... or if your pass

Re: enigmail and gnupg on linux xandros

2009-02-08 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Condor Kim wrote: > e:icedove: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > e: enigmail: dependency problem -- leaving unconfigured > e: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure - a' to > correct the problem This is an Icedove and/or Xandros error. It is

Re: Fw: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dirk Zemisch escribió: ... >>From David Shaw came the following: > >> Yes and no. Someone could restore your private key in the sense >> that they could recreate the same secret key file that you have. >> However, they could not use it as the paper

enigmail and gnupg on linux xandros

2009-02-08 Thread Condor Kim
i have a question about using enigmail on linux.   i recently bought an eee pc 901 with linux xandros on it. i added debian repo and i wanted to install enigmail on my thunderbird. but when i do a search on my synaptic i get a response that i need to install icedove together with enigmail. i loo

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 8, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Ian Hill wrote: Can you explain the instructions, do you just add the octets to the end of the public key. Is this the same with multiple subkeys. Yes, and yes. In OpenPGP, a secret key is just a public key with some extra stuff (the secret numbers) tacked o

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Alex Amiryan wrote: > Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > On Sunday 08 February 2009, Alex Amiryan wrote: > >> I've printed out my paperkey and keeping it in my home. I am not > >> making any illegal things, so police will not come to investigate > >> my house one day :). > > > > Yo

Re: GPG - how to update keys to a new format?

2009-02-08 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 7, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Csabi wrote: Hello! I imported my old keys (made with PGP 2.6.3I and PGP 5.0) to my GPG keyring, but GPG didnt ask me that i want to update my old keys to a new DSA key... You can't convert a PGP 2.6 key. GPG will happily use it (within some limits, notably

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Alex Amiryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009, Alex Amiryan wrote: >> I've printed out my paperkey and keeping it in my home. I am not >> making any illegal things, so police will not come to investigate my >> house one day :). > > You are using Gn

Fw: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Dirk Zemisch
Hello, I'Ve got some answers as PM, maybe they are interesting also for other list members... My question was: >> Does it mean, that anybody who gets the papekey printout can >> restore my private key - even if he doesn't know my passphrase? Sure? >From David Shaw came the following: > Yes and

Re: openPGP card, cant change admin pin, can't change name

2009-02-08 Thread Malte Gell
Hello, Am Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009 10:26:24 schrieb Benjamin Donnachie: > 2009/2/8 Malte Gell : > > does still now work, what is wrong there, why don't I have the permission > > to change the admin pin? > So, edit ~/.gnupg/scdaemon.conf and add the line "allow-admin". Thanx for that hint, actual

Re: What do if forgot password?

2009-02-08 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 don rhummy wrote: > What does GPG have to recover my data if i forgot my password? Well, it won't stop you from trying to brute-force guess your password until you get it right. Of course, depending on what you do remember about your passphrase,

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 8, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Dirk Zemisch wrote: Hello Ingo, hello GnuPG Users, On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:36:48 +0100 Ingo Klöcker wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2009, Ian Hill wrote: I have a question about paperkey, bearing in mind that this application may not always be available can one rest

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/2/8 Ingo Klöcker : > But it's gone if your home and your work place explode at the same time. I think my key would be the last of my worries in such circumstances. Ben ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailm

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Dirk Zemisch
Hello Ingo, hello GnuPG Users, On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:36:48 +0100 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009, Ian Hill wrote: > > I have a question about paperkey, bearing in mind that this > > application may not always be available can one restore the secret > > key just using the print

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Alex Amiryan wrote: > I've printed out my paperkey and keeping it in my home. I am not > making any illegal things, so police will not come to investigate my > house one day :). You are using GnuPG. Unfortunately, this makes you suspicious in the eyes of lots of people

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Ian Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Can you explain the instructions, do you just add the octets to the end of the public key. Is this the same with multiple subkeys. David Shaw wrote: > On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Ian Hill wrote: > >> I have a question about paperkey, bearing

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Alex Amiryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've printed out my paperkey and keeping it in my home. I am not making any illegal things, so police will not come to investigate my house one day :). So it is secure for me in case that one day my home and work computers explode at the same time :)

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Ian Hill wrote: > I have a question about paperkey, bearing in mind that this > application may not always be available can one restore the secret > key just using the printed paperkey and the public key from > keyservers manually. Yes. All you need to know is the forma

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Ian Hill wrote: I have a question about paperkey, bearing in mind that this application may not always be available can one restore the secret key just using the printed paperkey and the public key from keyservers manually. Yes, you can. That was one of the desig

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/2/8 Ian Hill : > Correct you print it out, but I cannot find how to re-compile the key > manually from the paperkey and the public key. If you can do this > without the paperkey programme this seems a good solution, otherwise why > not keep an e-copy of your secret key as this is likely to su

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/2/8 Faramir : > Right, I sent myself a copy of paperkey, to my e-mail account at gmail > and yahoo... one of them should survive... and if the program can't run > on the operating systems available at the time when it is needed, I > suppose there will still be virtual machines or emulators ca

Re: Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ian Hill escribió: > I have a question about paperkey, bearing in mind that this application > may not always be available can one restore the secret key just using > the printed paperkey and the public key from keyservers manually. I know David S

Paperkey question

2009-02-08 Thread Ian Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a question about paperkey, bearing in mind that this application may not always be available can one restore the secret key just using the printed paperkey and the public key from keyservers manually. Otherwise if I know I can always get a copy

Re: Copy subkeys to primary key

2009-02-08 Thread Ian Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for trying this did not work either, however, I managed to expire the signing keys and create a new one. I now have my primary, encryption and signing key that work! Faramir wrote: > Ian Hill escribió: >> For whatever reason I now have two ver

Re: openPGP card, cant change admin pin, can't change name

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/2/8 Malte Gell : > does still now work, what is wrong there, why don't I have the permission to > change the admin pin? It's all covered in the list archives and in the manpages: SCDAEMON: --allow-admin --deny-admin This enables the use of Admin class commands fo

Re: openPGP card, cant change admin pin, can't change name

2009-02-08 Thread Malte Gell
Am Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009 00:12:16 schrieb Malte Gell: > gpg --card-edit > passwd > then asked for the PIN, default pin "123456" entered > asked for the new pin, new pin entered twice > and then this > "Error changing the PIN: Conditions of use not satisfied" Too stupid, the pin needs to be 6 d