Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-05 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 05/08/17 12:44, Stefan Claas wrote: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 11:30:08 +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > >> Hello Stefan, >> >> Firstly the "<" did the trick - I used QtQr - to decode back and then >> to decrypt Kleopatra - and it worked fine QtQR c

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-05 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 05/08/17 09:04, Stefan Claas wrote: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 02:55:39 +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: >> On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 23:13:26 +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> >>> (8) zbarimg can display a png like any other but seems not capable >>> of converting it back to i

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-04 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 04/08/17 13:46, Stefan Claas wrote: > zbarimg image.jpg > output.txt && sed "s/QR-Code:-/-/g" output.txt Hello, I decided to follow your instructions: (1) I encrypted some text file size 1569 bytes (2) I ran qrencode -o david.png david.asc (3) Got david.png 291 bytes (4) I ran your command zba

Your Thoughts

2017-08-01 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hi All, I was sharing thoughts on AI in Linux facebook and Sean Rickerd shared this link https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/google-ai-neural-network-cryptography/ David -- “See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. Nothing of the kind.Stern, sane,ev

Re: A Quick Question

2017-07-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/07/17 15:01, Daniel Villarreal wrote: > On 07/14/17 04:59, da...@gbenet.com wrote: Thank you for your contributions Daniel and Robert Best Wishes David -- “See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. Nothing of the kind.Stern, sane,every brain-cell perfect

A Quick Question

2017-07-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hi All, I want to back up and move all the keys I have - without moving the whole directory - I have gpa kgpg and Kleopatra but none of these as far as I can see back up all your keys. Help appreciated and thanks David -- “See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. No

Re: FAQ maintenance

2016-02-04 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 04/02/16 09:29, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Out of curiosity - have you reviewed the latest version of ESD? > > The FSF asked Patrick Brunschwig and me to review it prior to > publication. I don't know if Patrick turned in criticisms; I gave a > couple of pages' worth. I'm pleased with the end

Re: FAQ maintenance

2016-02-04 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 04/02/16 08:56, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I propose to explain the different key in the keyring: > > As near as I can tell, this question isn't asked very frequently. If > the opinion of the list is that it is, though, I'll certainly add it. > What say y'all? > >

Ian Murdock

2015-12-30 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Apparently the founder of the Debian project, Ian Murdock, has died [1]. There is some interesting discussion on Reddit, especially the link to his last tweets [2]. This is very sad news, especially given the alleged circumstances. [1] https://blog.docker.com/2015/12/ian-murdock/ [2] https://www

Merry Christmas

2015-12-12 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35058761 David “See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. Nothing of the kind.Stern, sane,every brain-cell perfect and complete even at the moment of death. No delusion.” https://linuxcounter.net/user/512854.html - http://gbenet.com si

Re: GPA - unsupported certificate

2015-12-06 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 05/12/15 19:33, Dark Penguin wrote: > I wanted to report a few bugs in GPA that I've been getting on Debian > Squeeze, but I thought > I should check if they still exist in the latest version. So, I've installed > Debian Jessie > and got the latest release (0.9.9) to see if there was any impro

Re: What causes this bad signature

2015-11-18 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 16/11/15 15:01, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: > Hello, > > my key is not bad, the signature by 0x5E5CCCB4A4BF43D7 is bad. The > question is why. > > Regards > > Sebastian > Hello Sebastian, I downloaded the key and all sub-keys. Neither GPA Kgpg or Kleopatra give any warnings about this ke

Re: What causes this bad signature

2015-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/15 20:28, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: > Hello, > > for fun I tried a German government (or public-private partnership) > service that signs your PGP key if your name on a uid matches the > electronic data on your ID card (Neuer Personalausweis, nPA). I tried > this and got my signed key ba

Re: absolutely nothing to panic over

2015-10-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
listo factor: > On 10/06/2015 02:07 PM, Robert J. Hansen - r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: >> Australian researchers have figured out how to make a quantum gate on a >> silicon chip. [...] there's absolutely nothing to panic over. > > Yup, instead of panicking, we should simply acknowledge the fact >

Re: Keys have expired??

2015-10-22 Thread da...@gbenet.com
da...@gbenet.com: > Hello All, > > Am getting a strange message when signing e-mails - Enigmail says my key can > not be found or > a sub-key has expired. Yet Enigmail Kleopatra and Kgpg all show my key - and > it has no > expiry date set in any of the main or sub-keys.

Keys have expired??

2015-10-21 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hello All, Am getting a strange message when signing e-mails - Enigmail says my key can not be found or a sub-key has expired. Yet Enigmail Kleopatra and Kgpg all show my key - and it has no expiry date set in any of the main or sub-keys. I'm using Linux Lubuntu Thunderbird 38.3 Enigmail 1.8.2

Re: New "Everyman's software" from CeBIT in Germany

2015-03-19 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 19/03/15 22:32, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Thursday 19 March 2015 09:18:03 Thomas F. Ruddy wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I'd be interested in hearing Werner Koch's take on this recent >> innovation. Werner, you speak German: >> >> A new "Everyman's software" featuring certification, key servers, >> cu

Re: What am I doing wrong?

2015-03-18 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 18/03/15 12:18, Mark Walter wrote: > Hello all. > > I'm having issues with encrypt and decrypt and I know it's something I'm > doing wrong. I created a key with Kelopatra. Imported it into GNU Privacy > Assistant. It shows up as Fully Valid. > > Next, to test, I created the text file test.tx

Re: Keysigning

2014-12-02 Thread da...@gbenet.com
27;s key through > video conferencing is less secure but at the same time it's an effective > solution for remote areas. I think key signing through video conferencing, > might help in reducing 'crypto divide' (like that in 'digital divide'). :) > > Regar

Re: Keysigning

2014-12-02 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 02/12/14 08:27, Robin Mathew Rajan wrote: > Hello, > > Where can I get my keys signed? Does here anyone provide keysigning services > through video conference? :) > > Thanks and regards, > Robin Mathew Rajan > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnu

Re: Update

2014-11-26 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 26/11/14 19:52, Tristan Santore wrote: > On 26/11/14 19:37, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Hi Al, >> >> As so many have been aware, I tried LUbuntu amd64 LXDE with Thunderbird and >> Enigmail - which >> singularly failed to sign or even encrypt. I made add that K

Update

2014-11-26 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hi Al, As so many have been aware, I tried LUbuntu amd64 LXDE with Thunderbird and Enigmail - which singularly failed to sign or even encrypt. I made add that Kleopatra Kgpg GPA also failed to work. As some of you are stuck with the mind-set that the earth is flat eg "Oh it works for me there

Re: Nearly fixed

2014-11-18 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 17/11/14 23:06, Paul R. Ramer wrote: > On November 15, 2014 10:02:44 AM PST, Samir Nassar > wrote: >> For those of you who come to David's post in the future through the >> mailing >> list archive: Disregard this misconception. Many of us, myself >> included, use >> gpg2 on a 64bit system wi

Update

2014-11-17 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Having spent many many days on this problem I have failed to come with any working solution. Running a 64 bit version of LUbuntu does not work. This is a real fact of life no matter what all you people say. It does not work for me. I have tried Fedora-16 64 bit in the past - it failed - I tried

Re: The Facts:

2014-11-17 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 16/11/14 16:54, Philip Jackson wrote: > On 16/11/14 05:59, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Werner, >> >> I have partly resolved the problem - which seems to be related to gnupg2 >> Thunderbird and >> Enigmail running on a 64 bit Linux. The only error message am now

Re: The Facts:

2014-11-17 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 16/11/14 09:43, Gabriel Niebler wrote: > David, > > it is not a gpg2 problem and it is also not relatd to modern versions > of your mail programmes. In my case Thunderbird 31.2 with > Enigmail 1.7 runs just fine with GnuPG 1.4.16. I also have GnuPG > 2.0.22 installed as gpg2, but I'm not active

Re: The Facts:

2014-11-15 Thread da...@gbenet.com
> At the next write access to the keyring v3 keys are removed. > > David send me one of his mails privately without mentioning that he also > send he to the ML :-(. I looked at it anyway; see below. > > > Salam-Shalom, > >Werner > > > On Sa

Nearly fixed

2014-11-15 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hi All, The problem is with gpg2 on a 64 bit O/S I removed gpg2 and also lost GPA and Kleopatra and Kgpg no longer runs on my 64 bit Linux. Now my only error is "bad passphrase." Which I can not change from the terminal. Also as I recall the problem is with Enigmail - I have to install a versio

Re: The Facts:

2014-11-15 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 15/11/14 17:16, Paul R. Ramer wrote: > On November 15, 2014 3:52:02 AM PST, "da...@gbenet.com" > wrote: > [snip] >> david@laptop-1:/media/david/store$ gpg -ao --import >> --allow-non-selfsigned-uid david-public.key >> gpg: armour header: Version: Gn

Re: The Facts:

2014-11-15 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 15/11/14 17:00, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > On 15.11.14 12:52, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> The steps I have taken to move my /.gnupg folder >> >> Background: >> >> I have two laptops (1) a 32 bit LXD laptop-1 (2) a 64 bit LXD >> laptop-2 one mouse and

Re: Help needed

2014-11-15 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 15/11/14 15:17, MFPA wrote: > Hi > > > On Thursday 13 November 2014 at 10:33:31 PM, in > , da...@gbenet.com wrote: > > >> I exported my keys to a USB stick. Then I copied my >> .gnupg to a new Linux laptop. Then I imported my keys. >> I thought th

Re: The Facts:

2014-11-15 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 15/11/14 12:36, Johannes Zarl wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 15 November 2014 11:52:02 da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Laptop-1 and laptop-2 are a mirror image of each. They contain the same >> software. I copied programmes like Thunderbird Firefox from laptop-1 to >> la

The Facts:

2014-11-15 Thread da...@gbenet.com
agent running and available david@laptop-1:~$ (5) Then I discovered failings within Thunderbird/Enigmail - I did various test e-mails skip...@gbenet.com to postmas...@gbenet.com ad...@bikermates.org to da...@gbenet.com - all failed to support signing all failed to support encryption. (6) I t

Re: My Conclusions

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 11:56, Nicole Faerber wrote: > Oh please, I am using gnupg with the same keys on at least five > machines with no issue. > > I simply copied the .gnupg directory, end of story. > > Cheers > nicole > > > Am 14.11.2014 um 12:45 schrieb da...@gb

Re: Why the software is crap

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 13:38, Gabriel Niebler wrote: > Dear David, dear fellow GnuPG users, > > this conversation made me curious, so I tried to do it myself. Here's > what I did on my work laptop, just now, five minutes ago (in my home dir): > > $ rm -rf .gnupg > $ scp -r ${myfileserver}:${pathtobackupsfro

Re: Why the software is crap

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 13:31, Johan Wevers wrote: > On 14-11-2014 13:24, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > >> I have cooled. You can export your private key - you can export your public >> key. > > I've never done that, except when I imported my old pgp 2.x keys in > GnuPG a lo

Re: Why the software is crap

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 13:11, NdK wrote: > Il 14/11/2014 13:24, da...@gbenet.com ha scritto: > >> I have cooled. You can export your private key - you can export your public >> key. You can >> import your private key you can import your public key. In 20 years I have >>

Re: My Conclusions

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 13:14, Johan Wevers wrote: > On 14-11-2014 12:45, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > >> I have done everything correctly > > Apparently not. Or maybe the files are corrupted? Do they still work on > the original computer? > >> - and my conclusions are

Re: My Conclusions

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 12:46, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:34, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > >> I'm sorry you are having problems, but I think this is just nonsense. >> Of course people move keys between machines all the time. I have done > > Right. And you may even copy it from one OS to

Re: Why the software is crap

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 12:41, Tristan Santore wrote: > On 14/11/14 13:24, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> On 14/11/14 11:55, Martin Behrendt wrote: >>> Am 14.11.2014 um 12:41 schrieb da...@gbenet.com: >>>> Hello All, >>>> >>>> I even tried exporting my priva

Re: Why the software is crap

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 12:37, Samir Nassar wrote: > David, > > It might not be clear, but many of us have easily and simply migrated our > .gnupg directories from computer to computer. > > I've even deleted my .gnupg directory and restored it from backups. I've > intentionally messed up my private key and

Re: My Conclusions

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 12:15, Jason Antony wrote: > On 2014-11-14 22:45, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > >> I have done everything correctly - and my conclusions are still >> the same NO ONE HAS EVER SUCCESSFULLY MADE A MIRROR COPY OF THEIR >> .GNUPG AND HAD A FULLY 100 PER CENT WORKIN

Re: Why the software is crap

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 11:47, NdK wrote: > Il 14/11/2014 12:41, da...@gbenet.com ha scritto: > > I usually just lurk, but that's too much... > >> I even tried exporting my private and public key from the command line and >> then tried >> importing. The same error messa

Re: Help needed

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 15:28, Jason Antony wrote: > On 2014-11-14 09:33, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > >> But I get the following error when signing my mail: "Key 0xAAd8C47D >> not found or not valid. The (sub-)key might have expired." The key >> is visible in Enigmail Kgpg Kle

Re: Why the software is crap

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 11:55, Martin Behrendt wrote: > Am 14.11.2014 um 12:41 schrieb da...@gbenet.com: >> Hello All, >> >> I even tried exporting my private and public key from the command line and >> then tried >> importing. The same error message as before. I have chec

Re: My Conclusions

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
use -- certainly not someone who has put years of work into a > program that is an industry standard and released it for free. > > Nicholas > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:42 AM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> After spending 62 hours on what I thought wo

Why the software is crap

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hello All, I even tried exporting my private and public key from the command line and then tried importing. The same error message as before. I have checked on the internet - most of the suggestions are crap - the authors have never ever tried to do what they suggest others to do. If they had d

My Conclusions

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hi All, After spending 62 hours on what I thought would be a simple task namely to get a fully functioning gnupg mirror on my 64 bit Linux system - I realise this is an impossible task to do. In the past I've ended up creating a new set of certificates - but this time round I thought that I wou

Re: Help needed

2014-11-14 Thread da...@gbenet.com
cise information. > > On 11/13/2014 04:31 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Even when I use a backup programme and restore I still get the same error >> message. > > What backup program did you use? What version of gnupg were you using > on your old computer? what plat

Re: Help needed

2014-11-13 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 00:55, Doug Barton wrote: > On 11/13/14 3:59 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> On 13/11/14 22:42, Doug Barton wrote: >>> On 11/13/14 2:33 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Background: >>>> >>>>

Re: Help needed

2014-11-13 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 14/11/14 00:55, Doug Barton wrote: > On 11/13/14 3:59 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> On 13/11/14 22:42, Doug Barton wrote: >>> On 11/13/14 2:33 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Background: >>>> >>>>

Re: Help needed

2014-11-13 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 13/11/14 22:42, Doug Barton wrote: > On 11/13/14 2:33 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Background: >> >> I exported my keys to a USB stick. Then I copied my .gnupg to a new >> Linux laptop. Then I imported my keys. I thought that I would b

Re: Help needed

2014-11-13 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 13/11/14 22:42, Hauke Laging wrote: > Am Do 13.11.2014, 22:33:31 schrieb da...@gbenet.com: > >> I exported my keys to a USB stick. Then I copied my .gnupg to a new >> Linux laptop. Then I imported my keys. I thought that I would be >> fine. > > It is unclear to m

Help needed

2014-11-13 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hi All, Background: I exported my keys to a USB stick. Then I copied my .gnupg to a new Linux laptop. Then I imported my keys. I thought that I would be fine. But I get the following error when signing my mail: "Key 0xAAd8C47D not found or not valid. The (sub-)key might have expired." The key

Free Software Foundation statement on the GNU Bash "shellshock" vulnerability

2014-09-26 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation statement on the GNU Bash "shellshock" vulnerability /This post can be viewed online at https://fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-statement-on-the-gnu-bash-shellshock-vulnerability./ A major security vulnerability has been discovered in

Re: Import Certificate into Kleopatra/Decrypt Message

2014-09-24 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 24/09/14 16:24, Vera van der Werff wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > Recently, I have installed GnuPG for Windows 8.1. I have made a public key > (personal Open > PGP keypair). I have sent the public key to one of my contacts and he had > send me his public > key. When I try to import his certific

Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-21 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject:GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:02:21 -0400 From: Free Software Foundation Reply-To: Free Software Found

Re: It's time for PGP to die.

2014-08-17 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 17/08/14 08:57, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 16.08.2014, Kristy Chambers wrote: > >> Sorry for that crap subject. I just want to leave this. > [] > > The use of PGP/GPG depends entirely on the respective needs and > and context. For me, it has been working perfectly in many years, and > thus,

Back to normal now

2014-08-13 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hauke, Yesterday whilst figuring out what to do, I found that I was logged out - my Linux box refused to accept my password. Anyway having copied the contents of my home directory - I reinstalled LXDE. Then slowly configured. I installed gpg2 - created the directory and associated files and th

Re: Error - bad passphrase

2014-08-12 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 12/08/14 08:17, Hauke Laging wrote: > Am Mo 11.08.2014, 09:10:23 schrieb da...@gbenet.com: > >> Am getting the following msg now >> Error - key extraction command failed >> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf-8 --display-charset utf-8 --batch --no-tty >> --status-fd 2

can any one send me....

2014-08-12 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hi All, I am stuck, I need a working copy of gpg-agent.conf and a working copy of gpg.conf - for a Linux system. Am still failing to sign and encrypt. Thanks David -- “See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. Nothing of the kind.Stern, sane,every brain-cell perfec

Re: Error - bad passphrase

2014-08-11 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 10/08/14 20:48, Hauke Laging wrote: > Am So 10.08.2014, 20:39:26 schrieb da...@gbenet.com: > >> david@laptop1:~$ gpg-agent --daemon >> GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-6uIYXp/S.gpg-agent:1874:1; export > > You obviously have not set > use-standard-socket > in

Re: Error - bad passphrase

2014-08-10 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 10/08/14 15:44, Hauke Laging wrote: > Hello, > > Am So 10.08.2014, 08:13:12 schrieb da...@gbenet.com: > >> Since this upgrade > > I have no idea why the upgrade may have caused this. > > >> Also KGpg comes up with the following error Gnupg failed to

Error - bad passphrase

2014-08-10 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hi All, Am at a loss now. I've Thunderbird 31 and Enigmail 1.7 Since this upgrade I've had various issues - unable to sign unable to encrypt - I get an error message from Enigmail "Error - bad passphrase" - when I've not even entered it at the time. Also KGpg comes up with the following error

Re: CRC error

2014-07-28 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 27/07/14 23:51, pedro.mar...@ml1.net wrote: > Hi, > I'm a new user to the GPG world, and i haven't find information about the > "CRC" error when > importing a key. > > What does CRC means? > > When importing a corrupted key the following message apears: > > gpg: CRC error; 9BAD9F - 00F1D7

Re: GPG4Win question

2014-07-12 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 12/07/14 17:22, Ingo Kl�cker wrote: > Hi David, > > On Saturday 12 July 2014 09:02:09 da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> > [snip] >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: GPG4Win question

2014-07-12 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/14 14:10, Philip Jackson wrote: > On 11/07/14 11:45, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> In what folder does gpg4win store it's gpa.

GPG4Win question

2014-07-11 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, In what folder does gpg4win store it's gpa.conf and pubring.gpg files? Thanks David - -- “See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. Nothing of

my new public key

2012-09-29 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I've just created a new key pair - the older one gets you realise you will not live forever! So import and be happy! David - -- https://linuxcounter.net/user/512854.html - http://gbenet.com/blog - cryptology - for books howto's - mail

revoked DF951131

2012-09-21 Thread da...@gbenet.com
Hi All, I have revoked my public and private key DF951131 (postmas...@gbenet.com) and sent a revocation certificate to key servers - if you see it's been revoked after the update you can delete the key. Over the next few days I will create another. David -- https://linuxcounter.net/user/512854

Re: Visible Password

2012-06-22 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/06/12 16:54, David Chadwick wrote: > Hi All > > I was demonstrating GPA for the first time to a class of students yesterday > and a very > strange thing happened. (Note that I am new to GPA, having used OpenPGP for > the last > 10 years, so I

Re: Stumped and need some help with agent

2012-06-16 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/12 21:42, Anthony Papillion wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm having a devil of a time with Ubuntu 11.04 with GnuPG and need a bit > of help. This MIGHT be a problem with the Enigmail plugin but I think > it's probably something to do with my

Re: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-11 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/06/12 13:15, . wrote: > Does anyone have a GUI that will accomplish all key management and also > provide for easy file encrypt/decrypt/verify signature etc, etc? You could try Kleopatra or GPA but Enigmail/Openpgp does all that the others ca

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-11 Thread da...@gbenet.com
trust (self-signatures and other signatures as > you said in your email ) and covers other aspects of how GPG works with > regards to the PGP model? > > > >> From: w...@gnupg.org >> To: smick...@hotmail.com >> CC: da...@gbenet.com; gnupg-users@gnupg.org >> Subjec

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread da...@gbenet.com
ave actually met the signer > of face to face, right? > > > Do I understand correctly. Is this all accurate? With this behavior, would I > be doing Best Practices and what you guys all do? > > > Thanks for the instruction, guys. I appreciate the time and energy you guys &

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-08 Thread da...@gbenet.com
information. So technically there's > no guarantee I'm actually interacting with teh GnuPG.org website. > > > >> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 05:23:43 +0100 >> From: da...@gbenet.com >> To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >> Subject: Re: can someone verify the gnupg

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-07 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/12 17:14, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 6/7/12 11:18 AM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> To put matters simply, (1) Verner's key is not the same as gnupg's key (2) >> You can >> confirm the validity of Verner&#

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-07 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/12 14:17, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 07/06/12 06:23, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Clearly you failed to follow my link and clearly you failed to check the >> public key for gnupg. Now being a little confused try and get a clear

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-06 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/12 00:15, Sam Smith wrote: > yes, impersonation of the UID [Werner Koch (dist sig)] is what I'm trying to > guard against. > > My efforts to verify the fingerprint are the best way to do this, correct? > > > > >> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-06 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/12 13:54, Sam Smith wrote: > Can someone please verify that I have the legit public key to verify GnuPG > with? I checked > the website but the Fingerprint is not given anywhere. > > I got this Fingerprint for the Public Key I downloaded >

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/05/12 23:01, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:07:54PM +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Openpgp/enigmail does not support gpg2 unless one has installed gpg >> 1.4.11 - but I no longer trust Openpgp/enigmail

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/05/12 21:47, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 5/25/12 1:47 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> For example opensuse - all versions tested: > >> (1) When you open the address book in TB select an address right >> mouse click you

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-25 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/05/12 14:03, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:55:59PM +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> - From tests carried out - Mandrava Linux was ok. I suspect that other Linux >> distros have no >> real problems - ju

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-24 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/05/12 19:48, Werner Koch wrote: > Hi David, > > your mails are hard to read because you do not trim the quotes and use > lines of 90 characters or longer. Please don't use more than about 72. > One hint anyway: > > GNOME has a thing called gno

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-24 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/05/12 13:55, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:39:04PM +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > >> I ran the debugging programme with Openpgp debugging options to >> console and I got the message that with gpg2 ins

Re: There may be more to security than password length, or even its complexity.

2012-05-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/05/12 15:15, Mustrum wrote: > Http://xkcd.com/538 > > :-) > > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > Well is a wrench better

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/05/12 20:28, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 5/23/12 3:07 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Now I have 3 Linux Laptops. I started testing Linux distros with gpg2 >> - enigmail with Thunderbird - all 100 per cent Openpgp failed to >

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/05/12 18:39, Steve wrote: > Hey David et all, > > first: GPGTools Installer does indeed contain Enigmail and allows > installation. Not sure if it has the latest version since Mozilla's crazy > versioning means lots of maintenance and we could

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/05/12 17:34, michael crane wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 5:18 pm, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I have a draft version of nine frequently asked questions ready for >> community review: >> >> http://keyservers.org/gnupgfaq.xhtml > > for me t

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption AKA PGP/MIME

2012-05-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/05/12 16:54, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:35, mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com said: >> On 23.05.2012 12:56, Steve wrote: >>> I think we had the PGP/MIME vs inline discussion already. >> >> I am using PGP/MIME in this email. Can you

Re: Testing GPG EMail encryption

2012-05-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/05/12 16:38, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 23.05.2012 16:24, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> On 5/23/12 2:50 AM, Steve wrote: >>> I absolutely agree. At GPGTools we thought about an automatic >>> testing system. Checking if the mail was encrypted and /

Fwd: The UK's cruelest cut

2012-05-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject: The UK's cruelest cut Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 07:51:49 -0400 From: Emma Ruby-Sachs - Avaaz.org To: da...@gbenet.com Dear friends across the UK, Each year, tens of thousands of girls in the U

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 19:46, Kevin Kammer wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:26:14PM +0200 Also sprach Hauke Laging: >> Given the frequency of this discussion and the amount of effort takes by the >> participants: Wouldn't it make sense to make this a FAQ entr

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-23 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 19:40, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 5/22/12 2:26 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: >> Given the frequency of this discussion and the amount of effort takes by the >> participants: Wouldn't it make sense to make this a FAQ entry? > > I think so, yes

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-22 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 19:09, Peter Lebbing wrote: Oh all right :) Ha! Ha! David - no offence meant btw :) just so funny :) - -- “See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. Nothing of the kind.Stern, sane,every brain-cell perfect a

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-22 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 18:23, Hubert Kario wrote: > On Tuesday 22 of May 2012 13:34:20 da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 22/05/12 09:58, tim.kac...@gmail.com wrote: >>> I think it sh

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-22 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 13:12, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2012 04:58:48 -0400 tim.kac...@gmail.com articulated: > > {snip} > > > > Interesting! I once worked for a secret government agency. We had a working > theory that > anyone using encryption for other

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-22 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/12 09:58, tim.kac...@gmail.com wrote: > I think it should be okay to dredge up this topic ever couple years. From > what I am reading, links below, I do not feel comfortable with the key > length and algorithmic security offered by GPG's d

Re: Website link broken

2012-05-16 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 16/05/12 08:01, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 07:33:12 +0100 "da...@gbenet.com" > wrote: > > Hello da...@gbenet.com, > >> How odd is that? I rechecked the link and it still works > > I can confirm MFPA&#x

Re: Website link broken

2012-05-15 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 15/05/12 22:43, MFPA wrote: > Hi > > > On Tuesday 15 May 2012 at 9:21:13 PM, in > , da...@gbenet.com wrote: > > >> It works now :) > > Not from here - I just visited http://xfmail.slappy.org/ and was > s

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