Well, the UID is what other people sign. Suppose by a wonderful
coincidence my name is Barack Obama. To prevent confusion, I create this
UID Barack Obama (NOT the US president) bar...@is-my.name
People sign this. They have seen my birth certificate... erm... I mean
passport :)
I should note that many people actually *don't* check if the e-mail
address belongs to the person whose UID they sign. If this were as
simple to prove as it is to prove you have a certain name by showing a
passport or something, it might be checked more often.
That doesn't sound right. If you
The OP was maybe referring to the comment in UIDs of the form
Name (Comment) email address.
Right that's what I meant.
The comment can only be added when creating the UID. If you wish to
add, remove or edit you can create a new UID and set it as primary. If
the key has not been shared,
Is it possible to add or edit comments on a uid? I didn't see any obvious
option in the help for edit.
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When you close a laptop, Windows (or Mac OS X, or Linux, or what-have-you)
takes a snapshot of memory contents and writes it to disk. This can be a
really big problem, since encryption keys, passphrases, and so forth are
written out in the process. For instance, if you have gpg-agent set up
Robert J. Hansen said something like this:
On 1/5/2011 4:00 PM, freej...@is-not-my.name wrote:
Then something is very odd. Here's my output, only I used IDEA instead
of 3DES for my test:
You might want to reconsider using IDEA: although it was the bee's knees
for the early 1990s, the
Hi David,
--digest-algo specifies the digest for making signatures. It is not
related to symmetric-only (-c) encryption, where the digest is used as
part of the S2K to mangle your passphrase into a symmetric key. You
want the --s2k-digest-algo option. As the documentation says:
Hi, it appears --digest-algo is ignored for symmetric encryption using gpg
1.4.9. I was able to verify --cipher-algo does work but for some reason no
matter what I specify for --digest-algo I always get RIPEMD160 as the hash
according to --list-packets and pgpdump. It's definitely looking at what
On 01/05/2011 01:37 PM, freej...@is-not-my.name wrote:
Hi, it appears --digest-algo is ignored for symmetric encryption using
gpg 1.4.9.
Using --digest-algo is pretty dangerous. It's easy to create messages
your recipients can't parse. --personal-digest-preferences is what you
want to
If you have a 1024 bit dsa key this is likely the cause. To help you
more we'd need to know what kind of key you have, and what you're
setting for disgest-algo. Also, Robert's reply was correct too. :)
Hello Doug!
*Symmetric* encryption!
hth,
Maybe next time ;-)
Right then. Thanks Robert and Doug. Happy New Years to all! Cheers!
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Hi,
Occasionally I get a big file of encrypted emails with mail headers
stripped out. All thats in the file is the begin and end PGP marks and all
the encrypted armored text in between. Some are encrypted to me, others to
my coworkers. Sometimes if I do gpg filename it finds all my mails and asks
Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote:
On 12/29/2010 12:10 PM, freej...@is-not-my.name wrote:
Someone said we should write a script to parse all the messages into
individual files and then do gpg on each one and that's what i'll do
if there isn't a way to get gpg to scan the whole
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