Re: Thoughts on Keybase

2015-01-02 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 15 December 2014 at 19:40, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Keybase (https://keybase.io) is trying to solve the Web of Trust problem > in a new way. They're currently in beta, but I was able to snag an > invitation. (I have no invites to give out, unfortunately.) The following > is just a write-up

Re: Thoughts on Keybase

2015-01-02 Thread Pete Stephenson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 01:40:22PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Keybase (https://keybase.io) is trying to solve the Web of Trust problem in >> a new way. They're currently in beta, but I was able to snag an invitation. >> (I have no inv

Re: The praise of GnuPG @31C3 and why it is important (was: Guys please all see)

2015-01-02 Thread Nex6|Bill
watched the video, its amazing how much is broken and that GPG and OTR are not. > On Dec 31, 2014, at 5:20 AM, Nicolai Josuttis wrote: > > OK, > for those who didn't have time to see the talk at 31C3 > as a whole and therefore wondering why this is an important talk, > let me point out and quot

Re: Symmetric encrypt many files (batch mode)

2015-01-02 Thread Ben Staude
Am 02.01.2015 um 20:34 schrieb Egon: Hi All! I want to symmetrically encrypt many hundreds of files under Linux, the files stored in many subdirectories. I am looking for a shell script which can do it for me. What is the simplest way to do it? You might want to look at gpgdir: https://cipherd

Re: Symmetric encrypt many files (batch mode)

2015-01-02 Thread Dave Pawson
If you can get a list (comma, space separated) of the files, bash would do it nicely? whatever you do, you'll need that? then obtain the basename, $bn and use a for each on the list? HTH On 2 January 2015 at 19:34, Egon wrote: > Hi All! > > I want to symmetrically encrypt many hundreds of file

Symmetric encrypt many files (batch mode)

2015-01-02 Thread Egon
Hi All! I want to symmetrically encrypt many hundreds of files under Linux, the files stored in many subdirectories. I am looking for a shell script which can do it for me. What is the simplest way to do it? Best regards, Egon ___ Gnupg-users mail

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread sben1783
On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:07:40 +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 02/01/15 17:11, Peter Lebbing wrote: it would increase the size of the public key by at least 13 characters (making it 50% longer) but it seems a good tradeoff to me. Minor nitpick: I meant 12 characters. I didn't want to think abou

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 02/01/15 21:29, sben1783 wrote: > Maybe this isn't such a common use case, but I think for me it would perfectly > make sense;) No, I don't think this will become a feature :). However, if your OS is Linux or something with the same "scripting power", you could simply have your script create a

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread sben1783
On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:14:22 +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote: [...] What feature are you asking for? It seems to me it doesn't need a feature, doesn't need explicit support. You write a copy of the key to the same directory as where you store the encrypted files. You write a script that fetches

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 02/01/15 17:11, Peter Lebbing wrote: > it would increase the size of the public key by at least 13 characters > (making it 50% longer) but it seems a good tradeoff to me. Minor nitpick: I meant 12 characters. I didn't want to think about it and simply used 'echo 12345678|base64|wc' but that inc

Re: Key selection

2015-01-02 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 31/12/14 22:09, Sandeep Murthy wrote: > This is clearly a bug, and surely there’s an easy fix for it I respectfully disagree on both. Editing a revoked key might not have a use, but editing an expired key is perfectly valid, i.e., to extend its expiry date. The matching behaviour is also clear

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 02/01/15 17:04, Ben Staude wrote: > Another thought would be to just paste the private key (encrypted by my > password) to the gpg'd files? Of course my private key would then be sort of > "public", but still it is as secure as using symmetric encryption with that > password in the first place (

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 02/01/15 13:14, sben1783 wrote: > What I'd like to do is: create a public key so that the corresponding private > key equals my given password. This is possible with elliptic curve cryptography, although you should realise that a passphrase usually contains a lot less entropy than a private key

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread Ben Staude
[...] Another thought: You could generate a Keypair with a keysize small enough to remember als a password but then I think the key size is that small it won't be secure anymore. Would a key size matching the size of my password (say, 15 characters) be less secure than symmetric encryption wi

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 2 January 2015 at 2:13:53 PM, in , Ben Staude wrote: > But as I mentioned I don't want to > depend on a private key stored somewhere, but I'd like > to use my password as the private key. I would need a > keypair where the public ke

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread Christopher Beck
On Friday 02 January 2015 15:13:53 Ben Staude wrote: > [...] > > > Hi, > > > > you can use the asymmetric variant: Generate a encryption key pair, store > > the private key on your save place and the public key on your computer. > > Then you can encrypt files without any password and decrypt the

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread Ben Staude
[...] Hi, you can use the asymmetric variant: Generate a encryption key pair, store the private key on your save place and the public key on your computer. Then you can encrypt files without any password and decrypt them using your private key. Dies this describe your purpose, except the fact

Re: Updating public key problem

2015-01-02 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 1 January 2015 at 5:10:48 PM, in , Linux Debian wrote: > those 2 expired subkeys still appear That should be the case. But the key you attached has only one subkey (0x1181AAE315915635), and that is all I can see in the web interfa

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread Christopher Beck
On Friday 02 January 2015 13:14:26 sben1783 wrote: > Hi all, > > maybe this question is completely stupid and only shows I didn't > understand anything about encryption, but anyway I'm really curious: > > I want to store some of my private files encrypted on my NAS. Until > now, I'm using --

Re: Can't import private key to GnuPG 2.1.1 on Windows 8 x64

2015-01-02 Thread Jesper Hess Nielsen
On 02-01-2015 13:26, Werner Koch wrote: > The run again and check that file. It may give some more clues on the > error location. This is the output generated to the log file: 2015-01-02 14:51:30 gpg-agent[8956] listening on socket 'C:/Users/JesperHess/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/S.gpg-agent' 2015-01

Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread sben1783
Hi all, maybe this question is completely stupid and only shows I didn't understand anything about encryption, but anyway I'm really curious: I want to store some of my private files encrypted on my NAS. Until now, I'm using --symmetric for encryption with a (think so) strong password that I

Re: Can't import private key to GnuPG 2.1.1 on Windows 8 x64

2015-01-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:33, jes...@graffen.dk said: > gpg: key 0x416C5A0DD9FA2EE5/0x416C5A0DD9FA2EE5: error sending to agent: > End of file Can you please enable logging for the gpg-agent? You may either use GPA's backend preferences to do this or use a text editor to change or create gpg-agent.c

Can't import private key to GnuPG 2.1.1 on Windows 8 x64

2015-01-02 Thread Jesper Hess Nielsen
Hi all! I just installed the latest GnuPG 2.1.1 on my main Windows PC and tried to import my private key. However, it fails with a message from gpg-agent: gpg: key 0x416C5A0DD9FA2EE5/0x416C5A0DD9FA2EE5: error sending to agent: End of file gpg: error building skey array: End of file In the Window

Can't import private key to GnuPG 2.1.1 on Windows 8 x64

2015-01-02 Thread Jesper Hess Nielsen
Hi all! I just installed the latest GnuPG 2.1.1 on my main Windows PC and tried to import my private key. However, it fails with a message from gpg-agent: gpg: key 0x416C5A0DD9FA2EE5/0x416C5A0DD9FA2EE5: error sending to agent: End of file gpg: error building skey array: End of file In the Window