Re: Reliably determining that the agent is available and starting it if not

2013-02-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:21, cr...@2ndquadrant.com said: I expected it to be simple to make sure that the a GPG agent (either the gpg-agent program or something like Gnome's built-in agent) were Oh please don't use the latter, that is the cuase for a many problems. You may use gpg-connect-agent

Is it possible to use keys that aren't on the keyring?

2013-02-22 Thread Jim Treinen
Hello, I have a question about retrieving keys for use with GPGME. I understand that GPG is primarily built to function using keys on the user's keychain, however, I was wondering if it is possible to perform crypto operations using keys that are not on the keyring. For example, rather than

Re: Is it possible to use keys that aren't on the keyring?

2013-02-22 Thread Peter Lebbing
I don't know if it is supported by GPGME, but here's an alternative I just thought of: Store the public keyring on a RAM filesystem. Sketch of operation (not fully tested, and please understand what you're doing, don't just copy-paste): mkdir ~/gnupg-ramfs sudo mount gnupg-ramfs ~/gnupg-ramfs -t

US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-02-22 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Have any consumer banks in the US figured out how to use PGP, so monthly statements can be trully *delivered*? (as opposed to getting a plaintext message troubling clients to login via some GUI and point-click-point-click-point-click) ___ Gnupg-users

[Announce] Libassuan 2.1.0 released

2013-02-22 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! I am pleased to announce version 2.1.0 of Libassuan. Libassuan is the IPC library used by GnuPG 2, GPGME, and a few other packages. This release adds support for the nPth thread library as used by the current development version of GnuPG. It also fixes some minor bugs and enables

Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-02-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 02/22/2013 01:24 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: Have any consumer banks in the US figured out how to use PGP, so monthly statements can be truly *delivered*? OpenPGP, no, because there's no business case for them to do so. OpenPGP users represent a phenomenally small fraction of