Hello list,
Regenerating private keys is mathematically trivial but tool-wise
a little tricky. It seems that quite some people were troubled
by this problem due to different reasons (I not attempted to
confirm all of these):
* Using (old) backups of keys for decrypting with only private
key ava
Werner Koch writes:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 06:51, m...@halfdog.net said:
>
>> Regenerating private keys is mathematically trivial but tool-wise
>> a little tricky. It seems that quite some people were troubled
>
> What's wrong with
>
> gpg --import backup-of-private-key.gpg
>
> the private key inclu
Werner Koch writes:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:09, m...@halfdog.net said:
>
>> Therefore some exports (or copies of old secring.gpg) just
>> do no include the public key, otherwise import would be trivial.
>
> Nope. It is not possible to create an OpenPGP secret keyblok
> without the public key part
Phillip Susi writes:
>
> 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.
Damien Goutte-Gattat via Gnupg-users writes:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 08:05:04PM -0500, Dave via Gnupg-users
> wrote:
>> I can’t recall encountering any similar complaints about
>> OpenSSL. I find this somewhat curious, and am wondering if
>> there are OpenSSL detractors out there that I simply h
Robert J. Hansen writes:
> > Having such experiences more than once reduced trust and sympathy
> > for GnuPG, thus also willingness to contribute to testing or
> > development. But maybe just my expectations of GnuPG as open
> > source software are wrong and my limited communication skills
> > do n
Hello list,
I just noticed that gpgv2 packaged for Debian does not include
the "gpgsplit" and "pgpdump" tools any more.
Is there any replacement available for them, e.g. by option to
main "gpg" binary?
hd
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Hello Stefan,
Thanks for your helpful reply!
Stefan Claas writes:
> halfdog wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I just noticed that gpgv2 packaged for Debian does not include
>> the "gpgsplit" and "pgpdump" tools any more.
>>
>> Is there
Peter Lebbing writes:
> On 28/05/2020 06:20, halfdog wrote:
>> Using a signing key per source seems to be impractical here
>> too as it would also require to transfer the whole file beforehand
>> for signature verification.
>
> What about solving your entire use-cas
Patrick Brunschwig writes:
> Andreas Boehlk Computer-Service wrote on 31.05.2020 11:09:
> ...
Also what if you need your public keys outside of TB such
as encrypting a file?
>>>
>>> That's not supported by Thunderbird. The idea of OpenPGP
>>> in Thunderbird is that you use it for email.
>
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