Re: pinetry and emacs

2021-02-13 Thread Phillip Susi
Pankaj Jangid writes: > I faced the same issue when I started Emacs from virtual terminal > window. But I do not get the issue when launching from directly GUI. I > am on MacOS. Even if you run emacs from a terminal emulator, as long as you are in a GUI environment, then the gui pinentry

Re: pinetry and emacs

2021-02-11 Thread Phillip Susi
Phillip Susi writes: > It was pinentry-curses. I tried switching to pinentry-tty and it rapes > the tty even worse than the curses one. At least some keystrokes > occasionally had some effect with the curses one. With This one nothing > I hit would do anything. Couldn't get it t

Re: pinetry and emacs

2021-02-09 Thread Phillip Susi
Christian Chavez writes: > Have you tried checking with update-alternatives which pinentry is default > selected? > I remember having to switch mine from pinentry-gnome to pinentry-tty on my > machine (I don't use emacs though). It was pinentry-curses. I tried switching to pinentry-tty and it

pinetry and emacs

2021-02-09 Thread Phillip Susi
I have installed the pinetry module and run M-x pinentry-start, as well as added allow-emacs-pinentry to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, yet whenever I try signing an email in mu4e, pinentry gets into a fight with emacs over the tty and everything goes all fscked up. Why is this? Why does pinentry

Re: gpg encrypt always creates a new encrypted file

2019-10-28 Thread Phillip Susi
Anil Kumar Pippalapalli via Gnupg-users writes: > Hello, > I am trying to encrypt a file on my system using gpg —encrypt command but it > always creates a new encrypted file I want to overwrite the original file > instead so that I can only open it using passphrase. Is this possible. gpg

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-15 Thread Phillip Susi
Werner Koch writes: > authenticated encryption is different from signed and encrypted mails. > There are relative easy attacks on the encryption layer if standard > encryption modes like CBC (as in S/MIME) are used. Whether this really > affects users is a different question but they can be

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-14 Thread Phillip Susi
Werner Koch via Gnupg-users writes: > Still, TB is still subject to those attacks because their primary > encryption protocol is S/MIME and the last time I checked S/MIME (well, > CMS for the nitpickers) does not supoport any kind of authenticated > encryption. In contarst OpenPGP provides

Re: How to improve our GUIs (was: We have GOT TO make things simpler)

2019-10-11 Thread Phillip Susi
Andreas Boehlk writes: > I do not agree with this one. IMHO the verification with a trusted GPG-Key is > absolutely sufficiant and the checksum-proof is not needed at all. True, since validating the signature means validating the secure hash of the contents. That is, the checkum is reisistant

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-11 Thread Phillip Susi
Philipp Klaus Krause writes: > While having OpenPGP support directly in Thunderbird is probably a good > thing, I found it convenient to just use the gpg kerys for Email > encryption and signing (and conversely, being able to just use keys > imported via Enigmail to encrypt files using gpg). >

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-11 Thread Phillip Susi
Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users writes: > So what? If the goal is private communication, ProtonMail and Tutanota > are nearly effortless ways to achieve it. Sign up for a free account How do you figure that? If they aren't encrypting mail then how is it private? Or or is it using some other

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-07 Thread Phillip Susi
Jeff Allen via Gnupg-users writes: > The original poster, perhaps unintentionally, stated the real reason the > masses have not adopted PGP, "Please do appreciate that the persons who > we are convincing and instructing are not particularly interested in > privacy." That's it in a nutshell.

Re: Enforcing password complexity for private keys

2019-04-30 Thread Phillip Susi
David Milet writes: > To answer suggestions in other replies, our developers are savvy enough, and > we do have recurring training in place to stress the importance of good > passwords. But we know also that some developers will choose the weakest > password the system allows, making them the

Re: Multiple dev one signing key

2019-03-08 Thread Phillip Susi
On 3/8/2019 2:05 PM, john doe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering working on a project that has only for now a couple of > developers. > As part of that project everything that will be released will need to be > gpg signed. > > What is the best way forward? > - One signing key accessible on the

Re: Won't recognize my secret key

2018-06-22 Thread Phillip Susi
On 6/21/2018 10:41 PM, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > Basically, secring.gpg only has the information of expiration when it's > created. After changing expiration, it is only recorded in pubring.gpg. > So, it is recommended to do somthing like: Makes sense. >$ gpg --homedir ~/.gnupg.old

Re: Won't recognize my secret key

2018-06-21 Thread Phillip Susi
date, but then I extended it. gpg 2.1 seems to be failing to recognize the extension. On 6/21/2018 11:27 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: > Ok, so if I checkout and build 2.0.31, remove ~/.gnupg, and import my > keyring, all of my private keys show up. If I check out and build 2.1.1 > and run /

Re: Won't recognize my secret key

2018-06-21 Thread Phillip Susi
: porting secret keys from '/home/psusi/.gnupg/secring.gpg' to gpg-agent gpg: key A70FB705: secret key imported gpg: migration succeeded /home/psusi/.gnupg/pubring.gpg -- sec# rsa2048/A70FB705 2011-12-13 uid [ unknown] Phillip Susi uid [ unknown] Phillip Susi

Re: Won't recognize my secret key

2018-06-20 Thread Phillip Susi
On 6/19/2018 3:05 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > gpg keeps telling me that I have no secret key. Even after I deleted > the .gnupg directory and copied the pubring and secring from another > computer where it works, this system keeps saying I have no secret keys. > Why does it keep thr

Re: git repo won't build for lack of source files?

2018-06-20 Thread Phillip Susi
On 6/20/2018 1:52 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > I cloned the git repo and checked out gnupg-2.2.4, ran ./autogen.sh, > ./configure, then when I try to make, it is apparently missing some files: > > make[2]: Entering directory '/home/psusi/gnupg/common' > make[2]: *** No rule to mak

git repo won't build for lack of source files?

2018-06-20 Thread Phillip Susi
I cloned the git repo and checked out gnupg-2.2.4, ran ./autogen.sh, ./configure, then when I try to make, it is apparently missing some files: make[2]: Entering directory '/home/psusi/gnupg/common' make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'audit-events.h', needed by 'all'. Stop. What gives?

Won't recognize my secret key

2018-06-19 Thread Phillip Susi
\AppData\Roaming\gnupg>gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.28 (Gpg4win 2.2.5) C:\Users\psusi\AppData\Roaming\gnupg>gpg -K C:/Users/psusi/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/secring.gpg sec# 2048R/A70FB705 2011-12-13 uid Phillip Sus

Different signing encryption keys

2014-08-12 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 We used to use different keys for signing and encrypting ( DSA El Gammel ), but these days just seem to use a single RSA key by default. Is it still possible and/or beneficial to use two separate subkeys for signing and encrypting? -BEGIN PGP

Re: Different signing encryption keys

2014-08-12 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/12/2014 03:05 PM, Werner Koch wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:50, ps...@ubuntu.com said: We used to use different keys for signing and encrypting ( DSA El Gammel ), but these days just seem to use a single RSA key by default. That is not

Different passwords for subkeys

2014-07-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I keep a subkey pair for daily use that I keep a copy of on my work machine, and reissue each yea and the master key only at home. I would like to protect the master key with a password that is different from that used on the daily use subkey, but

Re: Encrypting File with passphrase

2014-03-14 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/12/2014 9:07 AM, Kumar, Vikash X wrote: Hi Team, Could you please help me to understand the following query. We are using gpg encryption method for encryption and decryption in our application. We have generated the keypairs on server A

Importing new subkeys

2013-12-10 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So my old subkeys are about to expire so I created some new ones at home and exported them with --export-secret-subkeys. When I try to import them at work, gpg just says I already have that key and stops. Why isn't it merging the new subkeys? I

Re: Importing new subkeys

2013-12-10 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/10/2013 06:27 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 12/10/2013 12:42 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: | So my old subkeys are about to expire so I created some new ones Why are you creating new ones instead of simply extending the expiry of the existing ones

Offline Primary Key

2010-03-01 Thread Phillip Susi
I would like to keep the private portion of my primary key stored offline and use an expiring secondary key for day to day signing. To accomplish this I have tried backing up the key after creating the secondary signing key, then attempting to delete the private portion of the primary key

Re: Offline Primary Key

2010-03-01 Thread Phillip Susi
On 3/1/2010 1:57 PM, David Shaw wrote: What you need to do is an --export-secret-subkeys (there is no such command as --delete-primary-keys). So, starting from a state where your whole key (primary and all secondaries) are all imported to your GPG instance, do: Yes, I meant

Re: Offline Primary Key

2010-03-01 Thread Phillip Susi
On 3/1/2010 3:37 PM, David Shaw wrote: This does the trick, but I still do not understand why --delete-secret-key removes BOTH the primary and subkey secrets when I specifically gave only the ID of the subkey? Shouldn't it remove exactly what I say and no more? It has to do with how keys are