On Thursday 22 March 2007 07:45, Carl Hartung wrote: > On Thu March 22 2007 01:12, Bob S wrote: > > As an offshoot to this question, I recently upgraded from SuSE 10.0 > > to SuSE 10.2. I preserved my /home partition and copied it over from > > 10.0 to 10.2. That brought over everything including the .gnupg > > files. I had a few files encrypted in another directory and now I > > cannot decrypt them. I just used the simple "password" method > > originally on 10.0, not the pubic and private keys method wanting to > > keep it simple. > > > > So, I figured that I needed to set up kgpg again, but no matter what > > I tried I could not decrypt my files. I read the kgpg handbook over > > and over and I even downloaded the howto from gnugpg. No good. > > > > Maybe some fresh thoughts on what I am missing would help? > > Hi Bob, > > Can you elaborate here, please? What is the "password" encryption > method you're alluding to here? Also, do you still have a snapshot of > your original 10.0 /home? > Hi Carl, Thanks for replying. When I set it up in 10.0 I chose the simplest form of encryption. Here is a blurb from the manual.
"Symmetrical encryption: your data is just encrypted with a password. Anybody who has a computer with gpg can decrypt your message if you give him/her the password. To perform a symmetrical encryption, choose "symmetrical encryption" in the options box when asked to choose an encryption key." Seems that in 10.2 I cannot choose that option. Not there. I don't have a snapshot as such but I can still mount the old partition and see what is there. Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
