Re: Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

2017-10-17 Thread Szczepan Zalega | Nitrokey
On 10/15/2017 11:55 PM, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > OK, > did this, and downloaded all of the dependent libraries to ./configure   > gnupg-2.2.1 > (...) > libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include > -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign

Re: Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

2017-10-15 Thread vedaal
On 10/12/2017 at 3:18 AM, "Werner Koch" wrote: -Yes, you should get 1.7. And while you are already at it, you better -also update to gpg 2.2.1. There are just too many fixes and changes we -did since January 2016. = OK, did this, and downloaded all of the dependent libraries to

Re: Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

2017-10-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/10/17 11:09, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 12/10/17 09:13, Werner Koch wrote: >> And while you are already at it, you better >> also update to gpg 2.2.1. There are just too many fixes and changes we >> did since January 2016. > > I think Vedaal is just using the gnupg2 package provided by

Re: Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

2017-10-12 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 12/10/17 09:13, Werner Koch wrote: > And while you are already at it, you better > also update to gpg 2.2.1. There are just too many fixes and changes we > did since January 2016. I think Vedaal is just using the gnupg2 package provided by Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Re: Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

2017-10-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:56, ved...@nym.hush.com said: > londo@londo-earth-trinket:~$ gpg2 --verbose --verbose --version > gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.11 > libgcrypt 1.6.5 > > Should I get the new Libcrypt? Yes, you should get 1.7. And while you are already at it, you better also update to gpg 2.2.1. There

Re: Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

2017-10-11 Thread vedaal
On 10/11/2017 at 2:33 AM, "Werner Koch" wrote:On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:26, ved...@nym.hush.com said: > gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.11; Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. You left out the line which tells the libgcrypt version numbers like in $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.1-beta1

Re: Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

2017-10-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:26, ved...@nym.hush.com said: > gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.11; Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. You left out the line which tells the libgcrypt version numbers like in $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.1-beta1 libgcrypt 1.8.1 [...] Salam-Shalom,

Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

2017-10-10 Thread vedaal
I recently got a new laptop, and installed Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS and used the Ubuntu Software to install Kleopatra. Ubuntu 16.0.4 has GnuPG 1.4.20 installed by default. After installation, I tried to generate a keypair and could not. Here is what happened: =[begin quoted terminal]= p {

Re: Very slow symmetric encryption/decryption with GnuPG 2.X

2016-06-27 Thread Werner Koch
> GnuPG 2.X the speed is many many times slower. This process is really slow, I For small files most time is spend on the KDF function to convert a passphrase into a key. With 1.4. you may be using an low iteration count but since 2.x we set the iteration count to a value which results in

Very slow symmetric encryption/decryption with GnuPG 2.X

2016-06-26 Thread wurzelsepp1337
Hello   I use a Bashscript for Cloud-Encryption-Purposes under Debian Testing. It uses GnuPG for symmetrically encryption of many files with a for loop. With GnuPG 1.4.20, the encryption/decryption runs always very fast on my machine, but with GnuPG 2.X the speed is many many times slower

Very slow symmetric encryption/decryption with GnuPG 2.X

2016-06-26 Thread wurzelsepp1337
Hello   I use a Bashscript for Cloud-Encryption-Purposes under Debian Testing. It uses GnuPG for symmetrically encryption of many files with a for loop. With GnuPG 1.4.20, the encryption/decryption runs always very fast on my machine, but with GnuPG 2.X the speed is many many times slower

Re: Public Key Algorithms - GnuPG 2.x lists fewer than GnuPG 1.x

2014-08-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:27, 2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net said: 1.4.16: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA 2.0.26: RSA, ELG, DSA Is this actually a change in what is supported, or just how GnuPG reports it? No. RSA-E and RSA-S are the same as RSA. They merely use different algorithm

Re: Public Key Algorithms - GnuPG 2.x lists fewer than GnuPG 1.x

2014-08-28 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/28/2014 11:57 AM, Werner Koch wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:27, 2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net said: 1.4.16: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA 2.0.26: RSA, ELG, DSA Is this actually a change in what is supported, or just how

Re: Public Key Algorithms - GnuPG 2.x lists fewer than GnuPG 1.x

2014-08-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:11, kristian.fiskerstr...@sumptuouscapital.com said: Speaking of which, with libgcrypt 1.7.0 this has the fun variant of (note the 3x RSA, without distinguishing -S and -E) be98b59 gpg: Do not show MD5 and triplicated RSA in --version. Thanks, Werner -- Die

Public Key Algorithms - GnuPG 2.x lists fewer than GnuPG 1.x

2014-08-27 Thread MFPA
Hi I only just noticed that among the output of gpg --version I get different lists of supported public key algorithms between versions 1.4.16 and 2.0.26. 1.4.16: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA 2.0.26: RSA, ELG, DSA Is this actually a change in what is supported, or just how GnuPG reports it?

Gpg4Win // GnuPG 2.x

2014-01-02 Thread vedaal
Am using Gpg4win 2.2.1 /GnuPG 2.0.22 Did gpg --dump-options and noticed that the --faked-system-time option is not listed. Was this option removed? vedaal ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

OT: MFT and posting via gmane (was: Re: 2.x)

2013-12-27 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
Hi there, I’m posting this via gmane with header “Mail-Copies-To: never”, which should be translated to an MFT header by Gmane (see http://gmane.org/post.php). From the Message manual: For instance, if you're running Gnus and wish to insert a `Mail-Copies-To' header in all your news articles and

Re: 2.x

2013-12-23 Thread Uwe Brauer
Jens == Jens Lechtenboerger clou...@informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de writes: On So, Dez 22 2013, Uwe Brauer wrote: Jens == Jens Lechtenboerger P.S. Do you know Mail-Followup-To (MFT)? Do you find this annoying? MFT has benefits: If I reply to a message with

Re: 2.x

2013-12-22 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
On Sa, Dez 21 2013, Uwe Brauer wrote: I am on Kubuntu 10.04 and I have both gnupg and gnupg2 installed. Now since 2.x is not affected by the problem mentioned I prefer to use it. However how can I be sure that gnupg2 is used for my email correspondence for which I use pgp-mime and not gnupg

Re: 2.x

2013-12-22 Thread K. Raven
Hi, On Sa, Dez 21 2013, Uwe Brauer wrote: I am on Kubuntu 10.04 and I have both gnupg and gnupg2 installed. Now since 2.x is not affected by the problem mentioned I prefer to use it. However how can I be sure that gnupg2 is used for my email correspondence for which I use pgp-mime

Re: 2.x

2013-12-22 Thread Uwe Brauer
Jens == Jens Lechtenboerger clou...@informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de writes: On Sa, Dez 21 2013, Uwe Brauer wrote: I am on Kubuntu 10.04 and I have both gnupg and gnupg2 installed. Now since 2.x is not affected by the problem mentioned I prefer to use

Re: 2.x

2013-12-22 Thread Uwe Brauer
K == K Raven m...@kairaven.de writes: Hi, I'm using Kubuntu (13.10) too and because many packets depend on gnupg, i use the Alternatives system to leave gnupg1 installed and use gnupg2 in parallel. You can see that on http://wiki.kairaven.de/open/krypto/gpg/p/gpg4#linux (in

Re: 2.x

2013-12-22 Thread Tristan Santore
On 22/12/13 17:24, Uwe Brauer wrote: K == K Raven m...@kairaven.de writes: Hi, I'm using Kubuntu (13.10) too and because many packets depend on gnupg, i use the Alternatives system to leave gnupg1 installed and use gnupg2 in parallel. You can see that on

Re: 2.x

2013-12-22 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
On So, Dez 22 2013, Uwe Brauer wrote: Jens == Jens Lechtenboerger P.S. Do you know Mail-Followup-To (MFT)? hm, I am reading this group via gmane (and news) I use simply gnus-summary-followup-with-original which results in a mail to Newsgroups: gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.user I don’t

(OT) Mail-Followup-To or not? (was Re: 2.x)

2013-12-22 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 22/12/13 19:36, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote: Moreover, with MFT I know whether you would like to receive a separate copy for replies or not. You could also interpret the absence of any headers indicating otherwise that the person might not care enough about that to set headers. My 2 cents,

2.x (was: [Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 1.4.16 released)

2013-12-21 Thread Uwe Brauer
. This is a *security fix* release and all users of GnuPG versions 1.x are advised to updated to this version. GnuPG versions 2.x are not affected. See below for the impact of the problem. I am on Kubuntu 10.04 and I have both gnupg and gnupg2 installed. Now since 2.x is not affected by the problem

Re: Libgcrypt 1.6.0 released and gunpg 2.x

2013-12-17 Thread Werner Koch
. gnupg 2.x would not work with the new libgcrypt if i just install it alone, would it ? (im sure i have to do it all again...) No you need to build gnupg again. Libgcrypt has a different ABI and thus a different SO number (20 on common Linux systems). Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken

Libgcrypt 1.6.0 released and gunpg 2.x

2013-12-16 Thread shm...@riseup.net
this looks like a significant upgrade if i have already compiled gnupg 2.x with libgcrypt 1.5.3, and i want to use the new 1.6.0, do i need to uninstall gnupg libcrypt and then compile both again together, and re-install ? gnupg 2.x would not work with the new libgcrypt if i just install

gpg 2.x or gpg 1.x // is there a way to tell which one was used from the encrypted file?

2013-05-24 Thread vedaal
Assuming one does not use the version line in an armored gnupg encrypted message, is there a way to tell whether the message was encrypted with gnupg 1.x or 2.x, (Assume also that the receiver can decrypt the message.) I tried --list-packets with the highest verbose option, but no mention

Re: GPG 1.4.x, 2.x, ECC, and portability

2012-05-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 15 May 2012 16:50, avi.w...@gmail.com said: them temporarily each time if necessary. Allowing an option to have the home and other helper directories configured as a subfolder of the install directory on the install should be helpful as well. What I I agree. We could do this. If a

Re: GPG 1.4.x, 2.x, ECC, and portability

2012-05-22 Thread Avi
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2012 16:50, avi.w...@gmail.com said: them temporarily each time if necessary. Allowing an option to have the home and other helper directories configured as a subfolder of the install directory on the

Re: GPG 1.4.x, 2.x, ECC, and portability

2012-05-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 22 May 2012 17:29, avi.w...@gmail.com said: That would be great! To close the loop, could the installer be modified to ask if the current install is portable and then create that file before the rest of the install to make it seamless? I am not keen to add yet another visible option.

Re: GPG 1.4.x, 2.x, ECC, and portability

2012-05-15 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:53, avi.w...@gmail.com said: anything to work, as I am not able to figure out how to us gpgconf to switch sysconfdir to my stick's drive, and everything else is failing The directory is determined by looking at CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA. It seems you can change the value by

Re: GPG 1.4.x, 2.x, ECC, and portability

2012-05-15 Thread Avi
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:53, avi.w...@gmail.com said: anything to work, as I am not able to figure out how to us gpgconf to switch sysconfdir to my stick's drive, and everything else is failing The directory is determined by

GPG 1.4.x, 2.x, ECC, and portability

2012-05-14 Thread Avi
or refute that? Assuming that is the case, it means those of us using 1.4.x need to move to 2.x to use ECC. In and of itself that shouldn't be an issue. What concerns me is that, and perhaps this is due solely to ignorance, it appears to me that GnuPG 2.0 for Windows cannot be installed in a solely

Re: GPG 1.4.x, 2.x, ECC, and portability

2012-05-14 Thread Werner Koch
only 4 years older. I consider 2.0 more matured than 1.4. Assuming that is the case, it means those of us using 1.4.x need to move to 2.x to use ECC. In and of itself that shouldn't be an We try to make it as easy as possible. In 2.1 there is even a way to provide a passphrase to gpg-agent

Re: GPG 1.4.x, 2.x, ECC, and portability

2012-05-14 Thread Avi
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: With gpgconf it is even easier to do this with 2.x. There is no need for a registry key for example. Obviously you need to set GNUPGHOME if you don't want to use the default home directory. Thank you, Werner. I've tried

Easiest way to migrate from GPG 1.4.11 to 2.x?

2011-09-18 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I've been a very happy user of 1.4.x branch for some years. Now I'm thinking about moving to 2.x, which would mean GPG4Win. How do I migrate my keyrings to 2.x? Simple copy/paste? Best Regards -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Easiest way to migrate from GPG 1.4.11 to 2.x?

2011-09-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/18/2011 15:49, Faramir wrote: Hello, I've been a very happy user of 1.4.x branch for some years. Now I'm thinking about moving to 2.x, which would mean GPG4Win. How do I migrate my keyrings to 2.x? Simple copy/paste? No need to migrate anything at this point. The two

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x? (trusted: w...@gnupg.org)

2009-06-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 10:27, mani...@gmail.com said: Do we increase risk (risk of attacks, risk of errors etc ) by using front ends ? That is hard to tell. Every extra line of code adds the risk of a new error; thus frontends are risky. However, most errors are due to user errors and thus a

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x? (trusted: w...@gnupg.org)

2009-06-06 Thread Subu
: Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? I don't know and I am not interested to look thi up. GPGShell is proprietary software! Note that there is another frontend called GnuPG Shell which is sometimes confused with GPGShell. Only

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:50, allen.schu...@gmail.com said: Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? I don't know and I am not interested to look thi up. GPGShell is proprietary software! Note that there is another frontend called GnuPG

gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread Allen Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? Allen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) - GPGshell v3.72 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJKKEGQAAoJEMNyjCz1VlHgJc4IAILQZ1fYMXKtiV7W+y1

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread John Clizbe
Allen Schultz wrote: Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? Not that I know of. If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? Maybe? But why should it? Everything OpenPGP related is provided by GnuPG 1.4. GnuPG's added X.509 functions aren't needed by GPGshell. There still

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:21:04PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote: Allen Schultz wrote: Couple of questions. Is there a mailing list for gpgshell? Not that I know of. If not, Does GPGShell support gnupg 2.x? Maybe? But why should it? Everything OpenPGP related is provided by GnuPG 1.4

Re: gpgshell and gnupg 2.x?

2009-06-04 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Peter Pentchev wrote: Errr, unless I'm badly mistaken, gpg-agent doesn't come with GnuPG 1.4.x and to build and use it, you need some of those component libraries. And, at least for me, gpg-agent is a very, very comfortable and convenient tool.

Re: upgrading from 1.x to 2.x

2008-04-23 Thread Torsten Curdt
I've just reverted back to 1.x. Version 2.x does not seem to be worth the hassle. 1.x works like charm. But couldn't import the msg.asc here either ...so it really seems to be broken. Anyway. Not a particular good error message though. cheers -- Torsten On Apr 22, 2008, at 09:41, Torsten

Re: upgrading from 1.x to 2.x

2008-04-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: refreshing the keys fails. $ gpg2 --refresh-keys an mpi of size 0 is not allowed gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: Invalid packet Incidently this problem was reported to me yesterday and figured out that the http key helper tool did

Re: upgrading from 1.x to 2.x

2008-04-22 Thread Torsten Curdt
Hey Werner, Thanks for the response! refreshing the keys fails. $ gpg2 --refresh-keys an mpi of size 0 is not allowed gpg: keyring_get_keyblock: read error: Invalid packet Incidently this problem was reported to me yesterday and figured out that the http key helper tool did not worked at

GPG 1.4.x v.s 2.x

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The place I work needs to upgrade gpg badly. They know this. The question is do they go with the 1.4.x tree or should they go to the 2.x codebase? Suggestions? Recommendations? We get files from clients all over the world. Are there features

Re: GPG 1.4.x v.s 2.x

2007-12-20 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Alan Olsen wrote: The place I work needs to upgrade gpg badly. They know this. The question is do they go with the 1.4.x tree or should they go to the 2.x codebase? Depends on what you want to do with it. If you're only worried about OpenPGP (RFC2440 or RFC4880) traffic, then the 1.4 tree