Re: Encrypt to a key without importing it to keyring

2017-11-24 Thread Seby
"Ingo Klöcker" wrote: On Freitag, 24. November 2017 02:44:08 CET Seby wrote: > Back to the subject, saving to at least a temporary keyring is my only > solution? Nothing else I can use in batch mode to serve the armored > key from clipboard somehow and do the operation? Yes.

Re: Encrypt to a key without importing it to keyring

2017-11-23 Thread Seby
Seby wrote: >> Approximation would be using ephemeral GNUPGHOME. >> >> I mean, starting your GnuPG session (or script) with: >> >>$ export GNUPGHOME=$(mktemp -p /run/user/$(id -u) -d) >>$ chmod og-rwx $GNUPGHOME; echo $GNUPGHOME >> >> and

Re: Encrypt to a key without importing it to keyring

2017-11-23 Thread Seby
Hello, Thanks a lot for the reply. NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > Seby wrote: >> Basically use gnupg without a keyring or trustdb. And the pass the armored >> pgp public key with each command and operation. > > AFAIK, such a usage is not supported by GnuPG. > > Well, I would

Re: Encrypt to a key without importing it to keyring

2017-11-22 Thread Seby
vance. On Nov 22, 2017 12:16, "Seby" wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any possibility i could encrypt some text to a public key but > without importing it to my keyring? Passing it to gnupg via command line or > something (i do know and accept that if i want to encrypt multiple

Encrypt to a key without importing it to keyring

2017-11-22 Thread Seby
Hello, Is there any possibility i could encrypt some text to a public key but without importing it to my keyring? Passing it to gnupg via command line or something (i do know and accept that if i want to encrypt multiple messages or files to the same key i will have to provide it every time) . Se

Re: question about determining the key length

2017-11-15 Thread Seby
Hello Cathy, On Nov 15, 2017 00:40, "Smith, Cathy" wrote: Hello Is there a way to determine the key length and the type of key (RSA or other) used when generating the keyring? I have a RHEL 5 box using gpg 1.4.5 where I need to determine how a key ring was generated.Even on an Ubuntu box

Re: New smart card / token alternative

2017-11-06 Thread Seby
Hello, "Tim Steiner" wrote: We have been working on a project to build a direct interface for PGP/GPG usage using U2F for web apps and browser extensions. This is similar to existing smart cards and tokens but no software install is required. We set out to solve this problem -"Man, I really wi

Re: Cannot control GnuPG from shell (IPC parameter error)

2017-11-05 Thread Seby
bares the fault. Thank you. Seby wrote: > Hello, > > "NIIBE Yutaka" wrote: > > Seby wrote: >> I am running 2.3.0-beta82. I tried to search for this error and I >> could only find clues that lead to gpg-agent, but # gpg-agent --help >> doesn't allow

Re: Cannot control GnuPG from shell (IPC parameter error)

2017-11-05 Thread Seby
Hello, "NIIBE Yutaka" wrote: Seby wrote: > I am running 2.3.0-beta82. I tried to search for this error and I > could only find clues that lead to gpg-agent, but # gpg-agent --help > doesn't allow me to disable it. What is the good approach here? Please update your inst

Cannot control GnuPG from shell (IPC parameter error)

2017-11-04 Thread Seby
Hello, I have a script that interacts with GnuPG in an automated / unattended way, but it cannot control the keyring. I keep getting this: gpg: key generation failed: IPC parameter error I am running 2.3.0-beta82. I tried to search for this error and I could only find clues that lead to gpg-agen