Re: how to get private key

2008-07-03 Thread Harvey Muller
Naeem, It's highly unlikely that an individual would be capable of stealing a secret key and using it to decrypt messages.  A large corporation or government, maybe.  Make your passphrases complex. I'm a little cautious myself with my secret keys, so I use two hardware based approaches to ease m

Re: Encrypt files using my secret key

2008-04-07 Thread Harvey Muller
Paulo, I apologize in advance for the rtfm response, but you probably want to investigate the --sign and --clearsign options in the gpg manpage. If you are only looking for authenticity, and not secrecy, then encryption is probably not necessary. Best regards, Harvey - Original Mess

Re: OpenPGP card stopped working

2008-03-27 Thread Harvey Muller
If you decide not to remove seahorse-agent, for any reason, you can workaround the issue by using the --no-use-agent option with gpg. You still will be unable to decrypt with seahorse agent. HTH, Harvey - Original Message > From: Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Andreas Gras

OpenPGP card stopped working

2008-03-18 Thread Harvey Muller
Sven, I think I just bumped into your problem. I've been testing Hardy, and haven't had any problems with the OpenPGP card until now. I have to investigate further, but preliminary results indicate a udev or related problem. In Gutsy, the device is created in /dev, in Hardy it is not. Hardy

Re: OpenPGP card stopped working

2008-03-09 Thread Harvey Muller
> Any ideas? Or, for starters, any hints to produce a more meaningful > error message? Sven, I've used the OpenPGP card recently with Gutsy and the Hardy releases without issue. To troubleshoot you can try: $ ps aux | grep pcscd The above commands should report two lines, one for the grep comm