Re: Key gen batch operations

2010-06-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:31, m...@simplercomputing.net said: Anyone know if it's possible to generate a subkey for signing purposes via batch operations or a script? I can't seem to find anything that references a way to do that. No. You need to employ the --command-fd/status-fd mechanism to

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread Schmocki
Hello Robert, thank you very much for your quick answer. I already looked at truecrypt and also many other whole disk encryption/encrypted virtual drive software, but they always mount the drive after entry of the password and then everyone with the correct password has random access to the

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread Dirk Walter
It would seem like a fairly trivial thing to code, just have whatever is writing the file pipe it to GNUPG with the appropriate settings and write output of gpg to disk. I don't think there if a front end that does it for you though, some custom code seems unavoidable but depending on your precise

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 6/29/2010 10:36 AM, Dirk Walter wrote: It would seem like a fairly trivial thing to code The desired use case is to have a folder on disk where anything written to that folder will be piped through GnuPG first. You've already got to deal with drag and drop, the possibility of multiple

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread Dirk Walter
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: (snip), and so on and so on.  You can probably hack together a userspace solution that kind of works, but to do it right you really need a kernel driver. That depends on the source of the files, if you have eg a

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 6/29/2010 1:25 PM, Dirk Walter wrote: That depends on the source of the files, if you have eg a java app that is generating the files it would be trivial to pipe it through gpg, similarly if it is done through an ftp server or something it is also trivial. That is not the use case I read

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread Roscoe
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Dirk Walter dirk.wal...@semanticbits.com wrote: It would seem like a fairly trivial thing to code, just have whatever is writing the file pipe it to GNUPG with the appropriate settings and write output of gpg to disk. I don't think there if a front end that

Re: No-Keyserver (and other) flags on keys

2010-06-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, David Shaw wrote: I presently consider synchronization broken. If there were only one network of keyservers out there, and I didn't have to search multiple places when trying to sign or request a key, I might think otherwise, but this is not the case. See my alternate

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 6/29/10 5:44 PM, Roscoe wrote: I wouldn't have thought a GnuPG FUSE FS would be very hard. The surest way to discover whether something is easy is to try it. If it's easy, then it's easily done. If it's not, then it's not. I don't want to sound as if I'm putting myself up as some kind of

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-29 Thread David Shaw
On Jun 29, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Roscoe eoc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Dirk Walter dirk.wal...@semanticbits.com wrote: It would seem like a fairly trivial thing to code, just have whatever is writing the file pipe it to GNUPG with the appropriate settings and write