Specifying different pinentry based on caller?

2016-11-08 Thread Tim Chase
Is there a way to specify which pinentry program should be used based on the calling context? When using a GUI program like Claws Mail, I'd like to use the graphical pinentry, but I'd prefer to default to the terminal pinentry for everything else. Poking around, I've found ways of changing this

Re: Encrypted file-size approximation with multiple recipients

2014-04-10 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-04-07 00:05, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: It sounds to me like you might be setting up some sort of automated encrypted JSON message-passing scheme. If so, you should be aware that if any of the encrypted JSON could be controlled by an attacker, that attacker could possibly learn

Re: Encrypted file-size approximation with multiple recipients

2014-04-02 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-04-02 00:37, David Shaw wrote: This can change pretty significantly given different key lengths, different algorithms, and perhaps most significantly, how compressible the original document is (by default GPG compresses data before encryption). An input file of text will compress very

Encrypted file-size approximation with multiple recipients

2014-04-01 Thread Tim Chase
I've been trying to find a good explanation on how something like gpg -r DEADBEEF -r CAFEBABE -r 8BADFOOD -o output.gpg -e input.txt works. The best I've been able to find is this: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2007-October/031938.html I'm mostly interested in the overhead,

Re: Using Gnupg from the command line with no arguments

2013-11-26 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-11-27 00:36, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I would assume Control D = ^D = EOT = Ascii End Of Text Octal 004 = standard default fr end of data stream in Unix. I vaguely recall decades back with DOS, Microsoft used ^T Close...control+Z on DOS/Win32 -tkc

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-06 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-07-06 21:52, Hauke Laging wrote: [snip a whole bunch of helpful stuff] My recommendation: Separate keys by email address type: a) private (one group) b) each business separate c) each organization separate [snip a whole bunch more useful stuff] This was an amazingly helpful email.

gpg4win --gen-key fails to connect to IPC when using --homedir

2013-04-02 Thread Tim Chase
I found a similar thread here: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2012-April/044164.html but it doesn't seem to have been resolved. gpg4win was installed using the default location, and with none of the add-ons (no Outlook, shell, extensions, just gpg). The same operation without