Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-28 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* Johan Wevers: > Do you have examples of this for security related subjects? I try not to rely on Wikipedia, in particular when searching for sensitive subjects. Besides, if that was unclear, I mentioned Wikipedia as a general example of the good concept of a Wiki colliding with humanity, not

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-28 Thread Johan Wevers
On 28-07-2020 14:42, Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users wrote: > confused with facts. The amount of BS that can be found on Wikipedia is > case in point. Do you have examples of this for security related subjects? I know there are issues with politically sensitive subjects but that has usually other

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-28 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users: > How about collective and cooperative effort in a wiki, or cloud > funding pledges or donations? Those who contribute (money or effort) > get privilege of some kind. >From what I observed over the years, a majority of Wikis only really work within closely knit

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-27 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
Sorry for seeming to be "spreading unjustified accusations". What I said was meant to encourage that sort of "benign tyranny", I was not complaining; or at least that was not my intention. Thank you for explaining how the list works. Ayoub On 7/27/2020 2:08 AM, Werner Koch wrote: On

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-27 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:59, Ayoub Misherghi said: > The moderators on this list (I do not know who they are) have been > tyrannical excluding some of my posts; I am not bitter or resentful. I This mailing list is not moderated and thus your post are not excluded by any moderated. The only

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-26 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
I understand it can be frustrating, especially if nobody has a deciding vote or Vito power or moderator power. Someone should have have veto power and anybody with other ideas can always fork and do his own thing. That way it may probably work. A tyrant can stay on course and others fork

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-26 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> How about collective and cooperative effort in a wiki, or cloud funding > pledges or donations? Those who contribute (money or effort) get > privilege of some kind. I am very pessimistic about the idea of collective effort. What experience has taught me from working on the FAQ is that a small

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-26 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
How about collective and cooperative effort in a wiki, or cloud funding pledges or donations? Those who contribute (money or effort) get privilege of some kind. On 7/26/2020 2:48 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 12/07/2020 20:01, Ayoub Misherghi wrote: Can you please suggest some good

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-26 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 12/07/2020 20:01, Ayoub Misherghi wrote: > Can you please suggest some good tutorial and reference material > preferably free (probably mutually exclusive requirements) that will > bring me up to your level or close to it please. No, I think the available documentation is lacking in quality.

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-17 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
It is working now. The problem was in gpg-agent.conf that I forgot about. I did not do a re-install. I learned from this list. Thanks. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-15 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
Sorry for splitting Peter and Philihp  into two threads. I have probably put my gpg environment/program in a state it cannot come out of. I want to do what cowards do. I want to uninstall gpg and start all over again, escaping from the mess I

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-14 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
I am re-sending this text only. I made the mistake of sending it html previously. Sorry for splitting Peter and Philihp  into two threads. I have probably put my gpg environment/program in a state it cannot come out of. I want to do

Re: Have gpg-preset-passphrase always required a keygrip? (was: Newbie question.)

2020-07-13 Thread raf via Gnupg-users
Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > Peter Lebbing wrote: > > You can actually unlock keys the way GnuPG intends to do that with: > > > > $ my-unlocker | /usr/lib/gnupg/gpg-preset-passphrase --preset > > > > You can find the keygrip for your keys with: > > > > $ gpg --with-keygrip --list-secret-keys > >

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-13 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
Hi, On 7/11/2020 3:34 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote: Hi! On 10/07/2020 23:47, Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users wrote: ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg --list-secret-keys Could you do $ gpg --with-subkey-fingerprint

Fwd: Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-13 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
Sorry for going off list and messing everybody up. Now I disserve punishment. Sorry for the html too. Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Newbie question. Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 12:07:17 -0700 From: Ayoub Misherghi To: Peter Lebbing On 7/11/2020 11:30 AM

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-13 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
Thanks. This exposes to me how little I know and it will take me time to absorb it. None of this information is in anything I read. Nothing comes close. I will not come to grips with it with the kind of reading material I have. Can you please suggest some good tutorial and reference

Have gpg-preset-passphrase always required a keygrip? (was: Newbie question.)

2020-07-13 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Peter Lebbing wrote: > You can actually unlock keys the way GnuPG intends to do that with: > > $ my-unlocker | /usr/lib/gnupg/gpg-preset-passphrase --preset > > You can find the keygrip for your keys with: > > $ gpg --with-keygrip --list-secret-keys > > You do need it for every subkey you want

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-12 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 12/07/2020 17:45, Ayoub Misherghi wrote: > Sorry for going off list and messing everybody up. Now I disserve > punishment. Heh :-). It's just that if I reply off-list, it only helps you, but if it is on-list, other people can find it in a search engine when they're facing something similar.

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-11 Thread Peter Lebbing
Hi, On 11/07/2020 19:58, Ayoub Misherghi wrote: > ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/sentry/trunk$ cat ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf > batch > pinentry-mode loopback Ah yes. Those two options have no place in your gpg.conf. They are options that you might want to specify as part of the command line on occasion, but unless

Re: Newbie question.

2020-07-11 Thread Peter Lebbing
Hi! On 10/07/2020 23:47, Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users wrote: > ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg --list-secret-keys Could you do $ gpg --with-subkey-fingerprint --list-secret-keys and $ gpg --version please? And do you get a popup asking for your passphrase or is what you post all the

Newbie question.

2020-07-11 Thread Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users
What am I doing wrong: ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ ls textfile ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg -r develop1 -o textfile.gpg -e textfile ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ ls textfile  textfile.gpg ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg -u develop1 -o

Re: Newbie Question about initialization

2018-11-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:18, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > gcry_version_check(1.8.4) gcry_check_version requires a string with the version number or NULL. Thus --8<---cut here---start->8--- const char *s; if ((s=gcry_version_check ("1.8.4"))) printf

Newbie Question about initialization

2018-11-23 Thread Ahmad Bilal via Gnupg-users
Hi, can anyone tell me the syntax of the gcry_cry_version function? Does it work in this way: gcry_version_check(1.8.4) ?? Sent from ProtonMail mobile___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: Newbie Question: Creating a Key Server using GNUPG tools

2017-08-27 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 27/08/17 04:40, arznix via Gnupg-users wrote: > I am developing a closed mesh network application where > I want to encrypt the traffic using PGP. The local network > will have no access the the greater worldwide web so it > will not be able to access existing trusted Key Servers. If it is an

Re: Newbie Question: Creating a Key Server using GNUPG tools

2017-08-27 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> It is unclear from the documentation for GNUPG and some of the supporting > writeups on other websites whether I can create a Key Server for the local > network that will generate public and private key pairs. This doesn't sound like any keyserver I've heard of. Normally keyservers only store

Re: Newbie Question: Creating a Key Server using GNUPG tools

2017-08-27 Thread Damien Goutte-Gattat
Hi, On 08/27/2017 11:40 AM, arznix via Gnupg-users wrote: Can anyone clarify whether it is possible to create a local Key Server using the GNUPG tools? Not with GnuPG itself. The GnuPG project does not provide a keyserver software. Most keyservers out there are powered by a software called

Newbie Question: Creating a Key Server using GNUPG tools

2017-08-27 Thread arznix via Gnupg-users
Hi, This is a total newbie question as I have just discovered GNUPG. I am developing a closed mesh network application where I want to encrypt the traffic using PGP. The local network will have no access the the greater worldwide web so it will not be able to access existing trusted Key Servers

Newbie question on GPG and PHP running from a webpage

2013-11-05 Thread Griffin Cheng [CLIB]
Hello, I am new to GPG, especially writing programs to decrypt stuff. Is this the right mailing list to ask? Regards, Griffin CHENG. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Newbie question on GPG and PHP running from a webpage

2013-11-05 Thread Paul R. Ramer
Griffin Cheng [CLIB] csch...@cpce-polyu.edu.hk wrote: Hello, I am new to GPG, especially writing programs to decrypt stuff. Is this the right mailing list to ask? gnupg-users is for most discussions and gnupg-devel is for programming/development specific questions. HTH. Cheers, --Paul --

Re: Newbie question: Where do I put my trusted key?

2009-10-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/31 Charly Avital shavi...@mac.com: Please check the MacGPG2 Project at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/macgpg2/ The current installer for MacGPG2 2.0.12 is available. It will install a Mac native pinentry application. An updated version for v2.0.13 will be available in a few days

Re: FW from PGP-Basis: newbie question about bad keys

2009-02-17 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:45, kloec...@kde.org said: What if the signing key is expired or has been revoked? Unless you use --list-options show-unusable-uids those signatures are not shown. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz.

FW from PGP-Basis: newbie question about bad keys

2009-02-16 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 paramouse escribió: I am new to using GnuPG and hoping this is the the correct place to post questions. For practice, I imported some public keys to my keyring. I ran a gpg --check-sig After listing the signatures of the public keys I've

Re: FW from PGP-Basis: newbie question about bad keys

2009-02-16 Thread David Shaw
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:48:11PM -0300, Faramir wrote: paramouse escribi??: I am new to using GnuPG and hoping this is the the correct place to post questions. For practice, I imported some public keys to my keyring. I ran a gpg --check-sig After listing the signatures of

Re: FW from PGP-Basis: newbie question about bad keys

2009-02-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:48, faramir...@gmail.com said: The signatures not checked seems pretty self explanatory. What does the bad signatures mean? The signed data does not match the signature. That is the signed data or the signature has been modified or the signature was not correctly

Re: FW from PGP-Basis: newbie question about bad keys

2009-02-16 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Monday 16 February 2009, Werner Koch wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:48, faramir...@gmail.com said: The signatures not checked seems pretty self explanatory. What does the bad signatures mean? The signed data does not match the signature. That is the signed data or the signature has

Newbie question

2007-11-29 Thread Todd Hesla
I am a newbie to GnuPG, and am using gpg-agent so that I only need to enter my passphrase once. If I decrypt a file (which I encrypted to myself), I am of course asked to enter my passphrase. If I decrypt it a second time, gpg-agent supplies my passphrase from its cache. However, gpg2 still

Re: Newbie question

2007-02-18 Thread NikNot
I used libTomCrypt (cf.: http://libtom.org/) to implement something similar. The data viewer executable contains (somewhat concealed) private key, and data sets are encrypted using the public key of the pair. (LibTomCrypt is much more flexible and easier to program against than Libgcrypt when you

public keys newbie question

2007-02-12 Thread Bruce Cowin
As I understand it, people only need my public key if they are going to encrypt a file for me. If I will only be sending them encrypted files, then I need their public key but they don't need mine. Is this correct? Thanks. Regards, Bruce ___

Re: public keys newbie question

2007-02-12 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Bruce Cowin wrote (2007-02-13 08:06): As I understand it, people only need my public key if they are going to encrypt a file for me. If I will only be sending them encrypted files, then I need their public key but they don't need mine. Is this correct? Yup. They will also need your

Newbie question

2007-02-09 Thread Antonio Bleile
Hi all, I have a question concerning an unusual way of using gnuPG... I don't want to encrypt emails, I just want to encrypt binary data and deliver that over the internet. Consider the following scenario: I have a program that gets deliverd to various clients. The program is a viewer for 3d

RE: Newbie question

2007-02-09 Thread Antonio Bleile
Hi Sven, Hi! Private/Public key does not buy you much in this case if all you want is to obfuscate the file contents. Just use some AES implementation with the same symmetric key on the server and the client. Despite you seem to be aware of it, let me stress again: It cannot possibly

Re: Newbie question

2007-02-09 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mh... That means I've missed something really fundamental... When you send an encrypted mail you send the encrypted data and the receiver at some point has both, the public key and your encrypted mail. Else, how should he read your mail? Am

RE: Newbie question

2007-02-09 Thread Antonio Bleile
Hi, On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mh... That means I've missed something really fundamental... When you send an encrypted mail you send the encrypted data and the receiver at some point has both, the public key and your encrypted mail. Else, how should he read

Re: Newbie question

2007-02-09 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:36:35AM +0100, Antonio Bleile wrote: Hi Sven, Hi! Private/Public key does not buy you much in this case if all you want is to obfuscate the file contents. Just use some AES implementation with the same symmetric key on the server and the client.

Re: Newbie question

2007-02-09 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: - Does libcrypt do the job? I guess so... No. Libgcrypt provides basic building blocks but has no support for any specific protocol. - The CAD data may contain a fixed header, so an atacker knowing the header might use this info to easily

Re: Newbie question : GPgee and GPGshell etc..

2005-05-16 Thread gpg . 20 . subu
Hi I visited the Win PT link from gnupg.org site. This link http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~twoaday/winpt.html has the following 1. http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~twoaday/sipfone-exe.zip - Windows binary 2. http://www.equipmente.de/gnupt-int.exe - graphicall installer which seems to