Re: Symmetric encypher with private key decypher

2007-01-22 Thread Alphax
you are trying to do here: random key - encrypt data w/ random key | V encrypt key w/ public key ... which is actually what GPG does with bog-standard public key encryption! Or do you want something else? -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down

Re: authenticate flag

2006-12-15 Thread Alphax
, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org

Re: Importing my keys fails

2006-11-30 Thread Alphax
it for me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html http://sixdemonbag.org/cryptofaq.html -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc

Re: Logo ballot reminder

2006-11-30 Thread Alphax
where moving entries around didn't preserve the order that you had put things in... I ended up writing out all the option numbers on scraps of paper and shuffling them around until they were in the order I wanted :) -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical

Re: Two servers...one KeyPair

2006-11-29 Thread Alphax
-seed file! -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: Two servers...one KeyPair

2006-11-29 Thread Alphax
Henry Bremridge wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:20:06PM +1030, Alphax wrote: That advice is seriously flawed. You do *not* want to copy the random-seed file! Just out of interest: why? As someone a lot smarter than me pointed out in a message I can't find when I suggested just copy

Re: GnuPG 2.0

2006-11-13 Thread Alphax
, technological: the structures used in GPG2 simply don't exist in W32-land. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to enable a block cipher or hash algorithm for a keypair?

2006-11-05 Thread Alphax
-bit RSA key, ID 0xDEADBEEF, created 2006-01-01 Enter passphrase: Command quit Save changes? (y/N) y HTH, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GPG and PGP Compatibility

2006-10-18 Thread Alphax
Alphax wrote: re: setting the extension in Enigmail I've filed an RFE at http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15442. Well, apparantly it's already doable: You can set this with the following two preferences in about:config (or in Thunderbird via Preferences/Advanced/Config Editor

Re: GPG and PGP Compatibility

2006-10-17 Thread Alphax
. I've filed an RFE at http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15442. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GPG Outlook Plug-In and Signatures

2006-10-13 Thread Alphax
. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: Key problem

2006-10-13 Thread Alphax
... What version of GPG/PGP did you create your key/backups with? Try using that version to recover your key. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Howto add ssh keys to .gnupg/sshcontrol?

2006-10-09 Thread Alphax
Show fingerprint of specified public key file. Private RSA1 keys are also supported. For RSA and DSA keys ssh-keygen tries to find the matching public key file and prints its fingerprint. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative

Re: Logo suggestions

2006-10-03 Thread Alphax
resolutions. One easy way to ensure this is to create them in vector form, eg. as an SVG file. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Create a key without subkey?

2006-10-01 Thread Alphax
, certify. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: DSA2

2006-09-21 Thread Alphax
of the RFC but hopefully it's a lot clearer than the published version. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 8

2006-09-19 Thread Alphax
://blueness.port5.com/gpgcvs/ based on the trial-and-error that a number of people went through to get native building on W32 to work. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: PGP 6.5.8 - PGP 7.7.4 compatability with gpg 1.4.2

2006-09-18 Thread Alphax
on which version of PGP they are using. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: Help! Gnupg can't run in php program

2006-08-28 Thread Alphax
the command line. Something funny going on with Apple Mail? -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users

Re: sig!3 entry vs sig! entry on certain GnuPG keys from the PuTTY software site

2006-08-25 Thread Alphax
, and /will/ be used at the time of key generation. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users

Re: Don't store your key on a flash drive! [was Re: GnuPG (GPG) Problem]

2006-08-21 Thread Alphax
...) -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: Problem retrieving encrypted email

2006-08-19 Thread Alphax
that the behaviour is identical for sending an email to yourself. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg

Re: GPG and 1024-bit (or multiple) subkeys

2006-08-16 Thread Alphax
to excessive large key sizes) Now, although it can't generate keys that big, GPG can *use* a key of 16384 bits (presumably generated with one of Disastry's PGP 2.6.3 builds); again, operations involving such keys are painfully slow and not worth the effort. -- Alphax Death

Re: Security of truncated hash functions

2006-07-29 Thread Alphax
/archives/2005/10/nist_hash_works_3.html I know that sci.crypt would be a better place to ask this question, but I don't like it. You could also ask at PGP-Basics :) -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g

Re: How to verify the file was successfully encrypted...

2006-07-14 Thread Alphax
not OK, it can scream at you. Better than that, if you get GPG to sign the file when it encrypts it (using a passwordless key/subkey) and/or use the MDC option, you'll be able to do this more reliably... -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative

Re: How to verify the file was successfully encrypted...

2006-07-12 Thread Alphax
transfer via email or FTP. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users

Re: Keysigning challenge policies/procedures

2006-07-08 Thread Alphax
different people, or they might not be people at all; all you can really say about the key owner is that X is in contact with W and Z, and Z is in contact with X and Y. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g

Re: Keyring Directory

2006-06-25 Thread Alphax
\gnupg\some-other-trustdb.gpg Note that on Windows paths are case insensitive, and unlike in the registry, backslashes do not need to be escaped and paths with spaces in them do not need to be quoted :) -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative

Re: Keyring Directory

2006-06-24 Thread Alphax
:\\Documents and Settings\\Username\\Application Data\\GnuPG\\gpg.conf -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Interesting error message on import

2006-06-22 Thread Alphax
it? -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org

Re: Moving to another computer

2006-06-20 Thread Alphax
lunch. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: PGP to GnuPG

2006-06-16 Thread Alphax
the option in GnuPG --allow-non-selfsigned-uid to import the key, and then have it sign itself. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: False Decrypt Error...

2006-06-14 Thread Alphax
[keyring] HTH, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: PGP zip

2006-06-09 Thread Alphax
gpg-zip myself though. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users

Re: GPGFiletool does not find all keys in my keychain

2006-05-31 Thread Alphax
not find it? Is the key trusted? -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: set owner trust from a script

2006-05-29 Thread Alphax
backups of your keyring(s) and trustdb first. I've mainly used it semi-automatically where I check the status of some keys, run the script, and then re-check the status of the keys. HTH, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http

Re: gnupg plaintext encryption?

2006-05-28 Thread Alphax
, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: gnupg plaintext encryption?

2006-05-28 Thread Alphax
brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. ^Z -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: tar file for version 1.4.3--- bad signature?

2006-05-19 Thread Alphax
7448 2CBD B370 RMD160 = F6D3 2878 5F41 B74F 97D2 5305 C6FE 95AD 45BB 70A5 Of course, you should check the detached sig for that one rather than trust me on it... :) -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g

Re: auto-key-locate

2006-05-18 Thread Alphax
with yes. Use this key anyway? (y/N) Have you tried it with trust-model always in your gpg.conf? The key you're trying to encyrpt to probably isn't within your trust path. Btw, DNS CERT retrieval work fine, see: Oh yes, congrats on RFC 4398. -- Alphax Death

Re: Getting KMail to let me encrypt to an unsigned key?

2006-05-16 Thread Alphax
as lsigning the key, but YMMV. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg

Re: Retrieving keys via v3 fingerprint

2006-05-03 Thread Alphax
David Shaw wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:45:15AM +0930, Alphax wrote: How does one get keys from a keyserver when only the v3 fingerprint is known? I recovered the fingerprints from a trustdb (they had appended), but I can't work out how to get them off a keyserver... You can't

Retrieving keys via v3 fingerprint

2006-05-02 Thread Alphax
How does one get keys from a keyserver when only the v3 fingerprint is known? I recovered the fingerprints from a trustdb (they had appended), but I can't work out how to get them off a keyserver... -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical

Re: USB Drive Use

2006-04-27 Thread Alphax
on a USB device, but it's worth a try... -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: Clear all signatures on key?

2006-04-19 Thread Alphax
it by using the sign command. HTH, -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users

Re: newbie: --edit-key problem

2006-04-19 Thread Alphax
-1 for a hash function. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Feature_comparison sums it up pretty neatly. -- Alphax Death to all fanatics! Down with categorical imperative! OpenPGP key: http://tinyurl.com/lvq4g signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: auto-key-locate pka (gpg version 1.4.3)

2006-04-09 Thread Alphax
and keyserver don't). Wouldn't it be nice if 'gpg --version' printed a list of the features available in the version supported and not-supported by the executable? That's a good idea. I'll look at doing that. Will that also include undocumented features like --enarmor? -- Alphax Message

Re: Problem decrypting large file.

2006-03-21 Thread Alphax
-users/2006-February/028073.html and their replies. -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up| / \ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Error: unusable public key

2006-03-21 Thread Alphax
always to your .gnupg/gpg.conf file. HTH, -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up| / \ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Problem removing a public key whose private key is gone

2006-03-13 Thread Alphax
is on the key server, and you will be unable to do anything except reply Sorry, I lost that secret key, can't decrypt, here is my new key. This is why it is *very* important to have both a backup of you secret keys a revovation certificate. -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email

Re: decription directly from texteditor

2006-03-03 Thread Alphax
for it :) i dont want to decrypt files first and than open them. i want to do this in one step. If you're on W32 you can try GPGShell which has an edit clipboard function available from the tray. Otherwise KGPG etc. -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII

Re: Global Deb/XP keys from Deb partition ?

2006-03-02 Thread Alphax
with no arguments assumes that you're either going to type something to sign/encrypt (followed by ^D) or paste a signed/encrypted blob which it will verify/decrypt. You need: # gpg --armor --export mykey mykey.asc HTH, -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-22 Thread Alphax
something to add in the future? (feature request ;-) Isn't this what Kerberos was designed for? -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up

Re: file encryption and integrity check

2006-02-21 Thread Alphax
, it won't try to. -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up| / \ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: cURL keyserver handlers broken

2006-02-19 Thread Alphax
David Shaw wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:24:40PM +1030, Alphax wrote: Host: sks.keyserver.penguin.de Command:SEARCH gpgkeys: HTTP URL is `http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=indexoptions=mr search=Alphax' ?: localhost: Unable to connect: ec=0 gpgkeys

Re: cURL keyserver handlers broken

2006-02-19 Thread Alphax
David Shaw wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:52:40AM +1030, Alphax wrote: David Shaw wrote: That looks correct so far. I don't suppose you have an environment variable http_proxy set? Yes, but I thought that --no-options would disable it... also, I've tried using an options file without

Re: cURL keyserver handlers broken

2006-02-18 Thread Alphax
David Shaw wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:09:32PM +1030, Alphax wrote: Under GPG 1.4.3rc1 I'm completely unable to get the cURL-type keyserver handlers to function correctly. For example, using the following command: gpg --no-options --keyserver sks.keyserver.penguin.de --search Alphax I

Re: OpenPGP smartcard: addcardkey fails

2006-02-15 Thread Alphax
before card is permanently locked Admin PIN PIN Key is protected. gpg: secret key parts are not available gpg: Key generation failed: general error snip Any clue? Thanks in advance. Is the secret part of the primary key available in your local keyring? -- Alphax

Re: There new XMPP (aka Jabber) room GnuPG-ru

2006-01-26 Thread Alphax
ellegant and available for Linux and Windows. I not used gajim yet. I prefer tkabber and psi at the moment. Tkabber can sign messages with gnupg. PSI/Tkabber can encrypt messages with gnupg. PSI also has signed presence. -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred

Re: Using other compression algos with GnuPG

2006-01-21 Thread Alphax
-ness... I'd just use whatever compression scheme you want and pipe it into |gpg --compress-algo none. One tool one job :). Yes, this has the added advantage that your recipient has to be able to deal with whatever non-standard compression you choose. YMMV. -- Alphax

Re: Providing shell-completions for gpg, minor scripting issues

2006-01-16 Thread Alphax
) Compression: Uncompressed (Z0), ZIP (Z1), ZLIB (Z2) HTH, -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up| / \ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Are gpg signatures considered attachments?

2005-12-28 Thread Alphax
. -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up| / \ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: back signatures

2005-11-10 Thread Alphax
a user ID + key. 0x1F signatures are truly signing a key alone. So is a backsig of type 0x1F then?? -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up

Re: Keytypes and changing them

2005-11-08 Thread Alphax
of the key, and import the secret subkeys. That way you can still sign and encrypt as normal but you won't be able to use the secret part of the primary key. MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP THE ORIGINAL! - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key

Re: back signatures

2005-11-07 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:39:40PM +1030, Alphax wrote: David Shaw wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:15:16PM +0300, Pawel Shajdo wrote: Salve! Can somebody explain me what is back signatures? Manual not very clear about

Re: back signatures

2005-11-07 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:55:02PM +1030, Alphax wrote: It's a countermeasure against an attack against signing subkeys. Basically, the primary key signs all subkeys. With backsigs, the signing subkey also signs the primary

Re: how to handle bad signers?

2005-11-05 Thread Alphax
into a bit of a screed, but it looks like the best policy is: Don't do stuff unless you know what you are doing! Don't use software that does stuff behind your back! Use Free software! - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID

Re: back signatures

2005-11-05 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:32:07PM +1030, Alphax wrote: David Shaw wrote: On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:47:08PM +1030, Alphax wrote: David Shaw wrote: snip I should add that this is a new feature for 1.4.3. Has 1.4.3 been

Re: how to handle bad signers?

2005-11-05 Thread Alphax
be a corresponding Web of Antitrust. - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up| / \ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32

Re: back signatures

2005-11-05 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:04:27AM +1030, Alphax wrote: It's as official as any release that hasn't happened yet: that is to say, we're happy and thrilled if you test it out and report bugs (to gnupg-devel), but you'll have

Re: back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread Alphax
not a particularly good attack: the attacker can't issue signatures to prove his ownership. I should add that this is a new feature for 1.4.3. Has 1.4.3 been officially released yet? - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP

Re: back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:47:08PM +1030, Alphax wrote: David Shaw wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:24:09PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:15:16PM +0300, Pawel Shajdo wrote: Salve! Can somebody explain

Re: back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread Alphax
issue signatures to prove his ownership. Will this remove the possibility of moving subkeys from one primary key to another / converting primary keys to subkeys (documented at http://atom.smasher.org/gpg/gpg-migrate.txt)? - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred

Re: Batch setting ownertrust

2005-11-03 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Alphax wrote: I know this is probably a bad idea, but I want to do it anyway... Is there anyway to set ownertrust on a key in batch mode? If there isn't, how can I generate an ownertrust file and import it? Alternatively, where can I find

Re: Feature request: expand 'clean' to 'clean total'

2005-10-30 Thread Alphax
a physical size of almost 30MB. I would appreciate this feature very much. - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up| / \ -BEGIN PGP

Re: Signature packets without (whatever)

2005-10-30 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:53:51PM +0930, Alphax wrote: Recently, when checking my trustb I get the following appearing: gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: signature packet without keyid gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket

Re: Signature packets without (whatever)

2005-10-29 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:08:55AM +0930, Alphax wrote: David Shaw wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:53:51PM +0930, Alphax wrote: Recently, when checking my trustb I get the following appearing: gpg: buffer shorter than

Re: allowed commands on keys that keyservers handle correctly

2005-10-27 Thread Alphax
it's better than the GD. - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up| / \ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment

Re: Lots of questions

2005-10-27 Thread Alphax
in gpg.conf and are only applied when making signatures. Ok,.. later I'm going to play with Smartcards, too :-) Keep in mind that you will be called on to help debug new them if you get one :) - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP

Re: ECC

2005-10-27 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Topas wrote: Hi. When are we going to have ECC support in GnuPG? Is it in OpenPGP yet? - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML

Signature packets without (whatever)

2005-10-25 Thread Alphax
gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket gpg: signature packet without keyid gpg: buffer shorter than subpacket Now, I figured that cleaning the keys would probably fix this, but the question is: how do I find the offending keys? Or should I just batch-clean the lot? - -- Alphax

Re: security measures?

2005-10-15 Thread Alphax
tutorial on this is available at http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up| / \ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: How to fix the user ID on an old key?

2005-10-12 Thread Alphax
it's still the same). Included below is the output from pgpdump, in case that's of any help. Re-import it from a keyserver, the copy on the SKS network has a valid self-sig... If that doesn't work, gpg --sign 0x75AC881F ... - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred

Re: Armor headers

2005-10-08 Thread Alphax
into Version: in stage of exporting public key, making signatures, encrypting with ASCII output, etc.? Sometimes I do not wish that others will know what exactly OpenPGP implementation and OS I'm currently using. Well, you can use --no-emit-version and --no-comments... - -- Alphax

Re: Convert Sign Only Primary Key

2005-10-04 Thread Alphax
, so it is compatible with PGP? I'll cc: this to PGP-Basics @ yahoogroups; see what the people over there can dig up. - -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http

Re: Convert Sign Only Primary Key

2005-10-04 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Klaus Fuerstberger wrote: Alphax said the following on 10/04/05 12:04: a time ago I created a Sign Only DSA Key with an ElGamal Encrypt Subkey. Now I noticed that it is not possible to encrypt a message with PGP to this Public Key because PGP

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Alphax
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Re: Two questions

2005-09-15 Thread Alphax
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Re: [Sks-devel] stripping GD sigs (was: Re: clean sigs)

2005-09-12 Thread Alphax
the GD are entering via one of two ways: firstly, individuals putting their keys on the global directory, and then sending their keys with GD sigs out to SKS keyservers; secondly, someone doing a 2-way synchronisation of their entire keyring with both the GD and the SKS network. -- Alphax

Re: [Sks-devel] stripping GD sigs (was: Re: clean sigs) / Feature Request

2005-09-12 Thread Alphax
cdr wrote: MUS1876 wrote: Alphax wrote: I have friends who currently don't want to use PGP because they fear that their keys will be uploaded to a keyserver, and then they will be spammed forever more. I totally agree what friends of Alphax say. Wouldn't it be cute to have a sepcial

Re: This IS about GD - a proposal on dealing with the problem

2005-09-11 Thread Alphax
, the public key itself should have some flag set to signed upload only so that the server doesn't accept it without the corresponding signature. However, the keyserver would then have to verify the signature of the uploading key... how much of an extra burden would this be? -- Alphax

Re: This IS about GD - a proposal on dealing with the problem

2005-09-11 Thread Alphax
Zeljko Vrba wrote: Alphax wrote: However, the keyserver would then have to verify the signature of the uploading key... how much of an extra burden would this be? In what way extra burden? Computationally (CPU), programming complexity, or...? Computationally - it would be done only

Re: [Sks-devel] stripping GD sigs (was: Re: clean sigs)

2005-09-09 Thread Alphax
Johan Wevers wrote: Alphax wrote: Removing duplicated signatures however would probably have little impact, assuming you are removing only the newest ones Don't you mean keeping the newst ones? Er, yes. However as David Shaw pointed out further down the thread, there's no safe way to do so

Re: [Sks-devel] stripping GD sigs (was: Re: clean sigs)

2005-09-09 Thread Alphax
) know think we know *how* it's being done. And unfortunately, it's very easy (too easy!) to do, especially for someone with a high-speed internet connection. -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
synchronising their entire keyrings with multiple keyservers, leaking keys that their owners would rather not have on the keyservers in the process :( -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
Microsoft's inbuilt X.509 instead of OpenPGP, since Microsoft Guarantees No Back Doors in the CryptoAPI? -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http://tinyurl.com/cc9up

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
else could you fit on such a card? 3. Is it possible to have multiple things on a smartcard without them conflicting? Thanks, -- Alphax | /\ Encrypted Email Preferred | \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenPGP key ID: 0xF874C613 |X Against HTML email vCards http

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
Peter Gutmann wrote: Alphax [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zeljko Vrba wrote: Joe Smith wrote: For example, your CA can revoke your key leaving you with one key that is invalid X.509, but valid OpenPGP? Yuck! Using the X.509 cert and OpenPGP public key (having the same private key) could

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Alphax wrote: The only place in the GPL where libraries are mentioned is in reference to the LGPL. Using the Microsoft CryptoAPI doesn't appear to be legal; AFAICT, this is similar to the reason why Enigmail insists on GPG instead of being able to interface with PGP

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-06 Thread Alphax
Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:48:45PM +0930, Alphax wrote: The application is free to do whatever it wants with these objects, given sufficient authentication to the card (PIN). Technically, there is nothing CA can do to prevent you to use your X.509 keys as OpenPGP

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