Re: how to add a passphrase to a keypair

2021-10-07 Thread anonymous via Gnupg-users
Jack via Gnupg-users wrote: > I may follow up on this later, but are you saying that if there is no > password on the key, then gpg/gpg-agent/pinentry will not even prompt > for it? So, if I did have a key without a password, then "gpg --passwd > that-key" would not prompt for the original

GNU Privacy Assistant - false negatives on detached signature verification

2021-10-06 Thread anonymous via Gnupg-users
It seems that GPA can only verify detached signatures when it has a suffix of .sig .sign or .asc. When a detached signature has a different suffix (for example .gpg like all of the sha256sum.txt.gpg files for verifying Linux Mint downloads) GPA will always display a signature status of "Bad"

Re: how to add a passphrase to a keypair

2021-10-06 Thread anonymous via Gnupg-users
On Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 at 7:54 AM, Jack via Gnupg-users wrote: > The key was created many years ago with gpg > version 1 and was definitely created without a passphrase. One of many problems with having no password protection for a key is there is nothing to stop someone who has access

Re: generating revocation certs non-interactively

2015-05-05 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
luis wrote: To: gnupg-users Subject: generating revocation certs non-interactively ECHO Y\n0\n\nY\n|GPG --command-fd 0 --gen-revoke 0xDEADBEEF ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: is there a way to modify the date when signing?

2013-05-23 Thread Anonymous
On Wed, 22 May 2013 11:59:37 +0200 Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2013 23:55, mixmas...@remailer.privacy.at said: I would like to sign all my messages and have it appear to be signed on the Epoch date 1970...unless there is some other default way gnupg Don't do

is there a way to modify the date when signing?

2013-05-22 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hello, Is there a way to make a signature cleartext or detached, with the date modified, erased, or otherwise different then system date? I would like to sign all my messages and have it appear to be signed on the Epoch date 1970...unless there is some other default way gnupg handles signing

how to decrypt messages to hidden recipient

2013-05-22 Thread Anonymous
hello, I would like to decrypt messages stored in a folder: folder 1 2 3 4 5...n All messages are encrypted to hidden recipients. I have only one key which I want to be trying to use. How can I try to decrypt all the files in the folder trying my specified secret key? For instance for each

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

2013-03-02 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
On 02/25/2013 03:20 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: Where does this idea that a business case must be recognized by all suppliers for an entire industry in a whole country before it works? No one, but your statement seemed to be a severe overgeneralization. You're the one that said

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

2013-03-02 Thread Anonymous
Figuring out how to install an app is not the problem. Figuring out how to *use OpenPGP* is the problem. The app is not the same as the amount of specialized knowledge required to use the app successfully. The installation problem takes care of the other. Hushmail users need not know any more

Re: key length for smart card key generation

2013-02-28 Thread Anonymous
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:03:22 +0100 Josef Schneider jo...@netpage.dk wrote: Hello, with the current version of GPG 2 you can import 4096bit keys to a OpenPGP smartcard version 2.0. There is a bug in GPG2 that prevents it from decrypting data with a key longer than 3072bit on a OpenPGP

key length for smart card key generation

2013-02-26 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hello, I am able to use the gpg2 --edit-card to generate a 2048 bit secret key on the card and the stub in the local key ring. Encrypt/Decrypt functionality seems to be working. I read two other old posts on this list that seem to indicate that this is all gnupg supports: * You cannot

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

2013-02-25 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Why does the business case work in Germany? It doesn't. It works for one particular bank. It doesn't work for Germany as a whole. Where does this idea that a business case must be recognized by all suppliers for an entire industry in a whole country before it works? A business case can be

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

2013-02-24 Thread Anonymous
OpenPGP, no, because there's no business case for them to do so. OpenPGP users represent a phenomenally small fraction of their userbase (probably 1%) and would account for a large fraction of their tech support questions. You seem to imply that Americans are less capable or less interested in

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

delete bad UID from key on keyserver?

2009-05-08 Thread Anonymous Remailer
Hi, One of my email accounts is unusable so I deleted the UID from my key and uploaded it to the keyserver. That accomplished nothing so now I figured out I should of invalidated the UID and then uploaded it. I can't do that now because I deleted the UID from my key. I have to get rid of this

Re: what if they have my sec key?

2008-05-31 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Having the secret key on my USB drive? Having the key on a USB drive is probably secure enough if you do not take into account malicious software on the system you want to use it on. If you must assume that there could be keyloggers/etc. be installed on the system (by other users or

Change limits on pubkey lengths?

2008-03-18 Thread Anonymous
Since RFC4880 is now including symmetric ciphers with 256 bit key lengths like TWOFISH and CAMELLIA, is it time to change the limits in gnupg for pubkey sizes? According to some sources (RSA for example) the equivalent assymetric key size would be 15360 bits compared to a symmetric cipher using

Strength of ciphers in PGP?

2008-03-04 Thread Anonymous
Do anyone have links to comparisons of the ciphers traditionally used in PGP (IDEA, CAST5, 3DES). Thank you. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

IDEA not always working in GNUPG

2008-03-04 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hi, I occasionally receive messages encrypted by older PGP versions that are not being decrypted by GNUPG 1.4.7 [scrubbed] gpg filename gpg: assuming IDEA encrypted data Enter passphrase: [scrubbed] gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=67) gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected

Re: Kmail/gnupg fails to encrypt on F8

2008-02-14 Thread Anonymous Sender
Is there a way to force users to encrypt to a corporate key, in addition to the receipient's key? Use a wrapper around 'gpg' which adds '-r corporate_key' to the user-supplied options (only when encrpypting, obviously) and then exec()'s the original 'gpg' with the modified options.

Re: Shell script to encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify from clibpoard

2006-11-10 Thread Anonymous Sender
Zach Himsel [08/11/2006]: I think there was a program I heard about somewhere that enabled the clipboard to be read from the console. Could that be Kim Saunders' xclip? It's available at http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip ___ Gnupg-users

Re: OpenPGP Card in SIM Size.

2005-10-07 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
is it possible to cut the OpenPGP Card to the size of a SIM Card without destroying it? I am asking this because i want to use a Kobil KAAN SIM III Reader, its a ccid compatible USB Token which takes Cards in SIM size. I guess it should work ..?! Of course, the problem with a card

Re: --throw-keyid and -R options

2005-09-26 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
Is there any difference between the effects of following commands? gpg -e -R alice -R bob file gpg -e -r alice -r bob --throw-keyid file Since you are using -R (which does a per-recipient --throw-keyid) for both recipients, there is no difference between the two commands. I

legal status of GnuPG in China?

2005-08-24 Thread Anonymous Sender
Does anyone know the legal status of GnuPG in China? The only information I found was http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/cls2.htm#prc But I am unsure if that actually applies, as GnuPG is neither a commercial application nor is the intended use commecial. Regards, Anyone

keeping possession of a private key secret

2005-06-27 Thread Anonymous Sender
If I create a keypair in the normal way, the mails, files, etc., encrypted with it are protected by the passphrase as well as the private key. But access to my hard drive would easily reveal $ gpg --list-secret-keys my secret identity that I want to use for pseudonymous publishing. Any

Re: [PGP-USERS] PGP Desktop Home - Cost of upgrade

2005-05-12 Thread Anonymous
IIRC, the source to PGP is available, but only for peer review purposes. The license prohibits compiling your own PGP binaries. I might be wrong. It's been a long time since I've read the license. You are almost right. you may make binaries, but not for use, only for testing PGP for exploits. For