Can't decrypt message encrypted with ECC

2014-01-02 Thread Peter Humphreys
I have created a test ECC 25519 subkey. If I encrypt a file sign a file to myself with gpg2 -esa some_text.file it encrypts fine. But when trying gpg2 -v some_text.file.asc I get the following error: gpg: MyBuild gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v2 gpg: public key is 3EF4 gpg: using subkey

Re: deleting secret key not implemented

2014-01-01 Thread Peter Humphreys
Too easy thanks very much :) Happy New Year! On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 14:49 +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 12/31/2013 10:21 AM, Peter Humphreys wrote: Hi there, I saw this response from Werner regarding this in 2.1 beta, but I don't understand? .. But how do I

deleting secret key not implemented

2013-12-31 Thread Peter Humphreys
Hi there, I saw this response from Werner regarding this in 2.1 beta, but I don't understand? In 2.1 the secret keys are manage by gpg-agent and in theory gpg should not care about them. However, we also have import and export commands which tell the agent what to do with the secret keys

Re: GPG2 encryption options

2013-10-08 Thread Peter Humphreys
for example? Kind Regards, Peter Humphreys From: Peter Lebbing pe...@digitalbrains.com To: Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net Cc: mightymouse2045 eagleeyes...@yahoo.com; gnupg-users@gnupg.org Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2013 8:09 PM Subject: Re: GPG2 encryption options

Re: GPG2 encryption options

2013-10-03 Thread Peter Humphreys
Hi Guys, Thanks for the response. I had been doing a lot more reading since posting this query and came across gpg-agent. I think that's a nice option. I've been having fun since then building the latest libgcrypt and gnupg 2.0.21 stable build, because while Ubuntu includes the 2.0.21 package,