[Announce] GPA 0.9.5 released

2014-09-01 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! I am pleased to announce GPA version 0.9.5. GPA is a graphical frontend for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). GPA can be used for most operations supported by GnuPG using either the OpenPGP or the S/MIME protocols. A smartcard manager and a generic user interface server features are include

Re: Smart Card 4096 Key Question

2014-09-01 Thread Philip Jackson
On 01/09/14 08:16, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:27, tristan.sant...@internexusconnect.net said: > >> Yes the card can have a 4096bit Auth, Sign and Encryption key. You have > > Correct. > >> to generate them on a machine though, not on card. > > The cards generate them just fine.

Re: Smart Card 4096 Key Question

2014-09-01 Thread Tristan Santore
On 01/09/14 15:18, Philip Jackson wrote: > On 01/09/14 08:16, Werner Koch wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:27, tristan.sant...@internexusconnect.net said: >> >>> Yes the card can have a 4096bit Auth, Sign and Encryption key. You have >> Correct. >> >>> to generate them on a machine though, not on c

Hal Finney

2014-09-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Hal Finney, one of the original PGP hackers and a pivotal figure in twenty-plus years of PGP development and evolution of the OpenPGP spec, died this past weekend of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or "Lou Gehrig's Disease"). Although he had minimal involvement in the Free S

Problems installing 2.0.26 on Mavericks

2014-09-01 Thread Travis Millburn
Hello, I’m running into problems compiling GnuPG on my mac running OS X 10.9.4. I have Google-ed at length and read the INSTALL and README files to no avail. I’m hoping to get some help on the install, and thankful in advance for any help. I have downloaded the current version (2.0.26) and

Re: gnupg privicy assistant - card manager.

2014-09-01 Thread Paul Lewis
On 01/09/14 07:37:45, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:00, paul.le...@quadensemble.com said: > > > I'd like to use the card manager function, but whenever I invoke it > > the application returns the error "Error accessing the card", and > > the status bar reports "Checking for card ..

Re: Problems installing 2.0.26 on Mavericks

2014-09-01 Thread Ville Määttä
Hi, If you don’t have a specific reason for compiling yourself I’d look into installing from Homebrew [1] or Macports [2] and possibly then adding GPG Suite [3] without MacGPG component. I happened to run through this myself just a couple weeks ago so I wrote it up on the list [4]. [1] http://

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-09-01 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 29 August 2014 at 9:04:54 AM, in , Mark Rousell wrote: > Social interaction inevitably involves some extent of > information sharing, and always has, but that doesn't > mean that privacy (and all the nuanced concepts that > are cont

Re: Smart Card 4096 Key Question

2014-09-01 Thread Ville Määttä
I bought my SCR3500 and SCR335 V2 from Identive / Chipdrive [1]. I had a problem adding VAT number to the order myself but at least they ship (and kindly handled fixing the bill afterwards). Though, they only seem to have an SCT3511 there, not a 3512. [1] http://www.chipdrive.de -- Ville Määt

Re: [Announce] GPA 0.9.5 released

2014-09-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 09/01/2014 04:07 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > I am pleased to announce GPA version 0.9.5. Thanks for the updated release, Werner! I noticed a couple things from a brief review of 0.9.5: keyserver helpers and gpg 2.1 - GPA's configure.ac suggests that gpgkeys_ldap nee

[PATCH] GPA: add a File|Close option to the card manager

2014-09-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
All the other windows have a File|Close option, but the card manager only has File|Quit. As a result, a user who tries to close the card manager from the menubar will most likely shut down all of GPA, which may not be their intent. --- src/cardman.c | 12 1 file changed, 12 insertion

Re: Hal Finney

2014-09-01 Thread vedaal
On 9/1/2014 at 3:46 PM, "Robert J. Hansen" wrote: >I knew Hal, though not well. In my brief experiences with him he >was >witty, funny, and unfailingly kind. = Back when I first started in PGP, and asked many silly questions that exposed my ignorance, Hal Finney was one of the few who ans

Smartcard and PIN cache

2014-09-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
Hi, when decrypting a file with gpg2 in combination with a GnuPG v2.0 smartcard, my PIN, once entered, is cached a long time. Removing the smartcard or the reader deletes the cache, of course. Although I've read a bunch of documents and searched the net, I haven't managed yet to find out how I can