Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* Stefan Claas: > It should be noted that a fixed-width font would not help in this case, > because with my proposal we are talking about a line-length paramter. Making lines shorter to fit a vertical smartphone display? Or wider for horizontal displays? For whatever functional purpose? The key

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users wrote: > * Stefan Claas: > > > I am aware of fixed-with fonts, but modern messengers or social media > > do not use them. > > I deliberately don't use "social" media, nor do I care about it. Also, > if a modern messenger (whatever you may label as such) is not

Re: How to create an authinfo.gpg encrypted file with a GitHub token

2020-02-26 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
On 2020-02-26 at 00:18 +, John Stevenson wrote: > I would like to store a GitHub personal access token in a file called > ~/.authinfo.gpg so that the token is not stored unencrypted on my > computer. This file would be used by Emacs to talk to GitHub via its API. > > I have never used GnuPGP

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users wrote: > * Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users: > > > The reason why I ask, I often see postings on social > > media sites and the output there looks horrible, IMHO. > > Fixed-width fun should do the trick. Besides, the ASCII armor format is > meant to facilitate

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* Stefan Claas: > I am aware of fixed-with fonts, but modern messengers or social media > do not use them. I deliberately don't use "social" media, nor do I care about it. Also, if a modern messenger (whatever you may label as such) is not supporting fixed-width fonts, that's the messenger's

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > Michał Górny wrote: > > > On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 13:34 -0500, vedaal via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > > > > On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, > > > >

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users: > The reason why I ask, I often see postings on social > media sites and the output there looks horrible, IMHO. Fixed-width fun should do the trick. Besides, the ASCII armor format is meant to facilitate transporting key data in email, not to look pretty.

GNUGP new key with old data under an old gnu version - how to fix it?

2020-02-26 Thread ADNPLANET via Gnupg-users
Hello I´m having this problem: I have running a BIG system made few years ago and the programmer is not working anymore. The system store few data in mySQL database using gnupg encryption. All was fine until few days ago, when the key expired. So i generate a new one and all was perfect. But...

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Michał Górny via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 13:34 -0500, vedaal via Gnupg-users wrote: > > On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" > wrote: > > > I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, > > where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor > > output. > > = > > It would

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread vedaal via Gnupg-users
On 2/26/2020 at 2:03 PM, "Michał Górny" wrote: > >Why 'change it back'? Unless I'm mistaken, GPG shouldn't have any >real >problem with a different base64 width, as long as the overall >layout is >preserved. I've just did a quick test and GPG is entirely happy >with >the result after

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 13:34 -0500, vedaal via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > > On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" > > wrote: > > > > > I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, > > > where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor > > >

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > > > On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" > wrote: > > >I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, > >where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor > >output. > > = > > It would not be compatible with older versions.

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread vedaal via Gnupg-users
On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" wrote: >I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, >where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor >output. = It would not be compatible with older versions. The simplest thing for you, (or any users who

Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Hi Werner, I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor output. The reason why I ask, I often see postings on social media sites and the output there looks horrible, IMHO. For myself, I would like to have this feature when also

Re: How to create an authinfo.gpg encrypted file with a GitHub token

2020-02-26 Thread Juergen Christoffel
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:18:00AM +, John Stevenson wrote: I would like to store a GitHub personal access token in a file called ~/.authinfo.gpg so that the token is not stored unencrypted on my computer. This file would be used by Emacs to talk to GitHub via its API. Recent versions of

Re: How to create an authinfo.gpg encrypted file with a GitHub token

2020-02-26 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* John Stevenson: > This file would be used by Emacs to talk to GitHub via its API. While "used by Emacs" is quite unspecific and I possibly misunderstand your requirements, it suggests searching for "emacs gpg". Doing so returns many hits for Easy PG, so that might be a good place to start.