Re: GnuPG 2.1 Unattended EC Generation

2014-11-11 Thread Nicholas Cole
I'm so sorry, Werner. I thought I'd checked the manual. Huge apologies. On Tuesday, 11 November 2014, Werner Koch wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:56, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > > > Is that still possible? In version 2.1, if no password is specified, > > gpg2 tries to call pin-entry and as

Re: GnuPG 2.1 Unattended EC Generation

2014-11-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:56, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > Is that still possible? In version 2.1, if no password is specified, > gpg2 tries to call pin-entry and ask for a passphrase. A quick look into the manual (for me the source, but you may want to use the online version) gives: @item %n

Re: GnuPG 2.1 Unattended EC Generation

2014-11-11 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:52, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > >> How does unattended generation of elliptic curve keys work? As far as >> I can see, that section of the manual has not been updated for the new >> EC options, but I presume that it h

Re: GnuPG 2.1 Unattended EC Generation

2014-11-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:52, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > How does unattended generation of elliptic curve keys work? As far as > I can see, that section of the manual has not been updated for the new > EC options, but I presume that it has to work slightly differently. > Am I right that key-leng

GnuPG 2.1 Unattended EC Generation

2014-11-10 Thread Nicholas Cole
Dear List, How does unattended generation of elliptic curve keys work? As far as I can see, that section of the manual has not been updated for the new EC options, but I presume that it has to work slightly differently. Am I right that key-length is now a no-op? And how do you specify the curve?