Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread markus reichelt
* Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The use of prng generated data to seed another prng function is > utilized to compute data that is inherently random from the > previous generation. That is not my point, tho this might be the case. :) If this generated data is used once, it's ok. If n

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Jones
markus reichelt wrote: * Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: on a sidenote, using /dev/urandom is a bad idea. f.e. the standard slackware install and other distros as well have the following code (or something similar) in /etc/rc.d/rc.S: The above statement, although worthwhile

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread markus reichelt
* Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >on a sidenote, using /dev/urandom is a bad idea. f.e. the standard > >slackware install and other distros as well have the following code > >(or something similar) in /etc/rc.d/rc.S: > > > The above statement, although worthwhile, is not well founded.

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread David Picon Alvarez
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Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Jones
markus reichelt wrote: * Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John W. Moore III wrote: Running Knoppix from the CD I encrypted the Linux partition and it's virtually invisible. (unless one knows my HD size) What do you mean by this statement? Are you referring to the /random

Re: OpenGPG Card reader

2005-10-07 Thread John Clizbe
Sean Rima wrote: > Hello gnupg-users, > > I am looking for a card reader to use under Linux, Win XP, possible > as standalone or on a network. I know that asking for > recommendations can open a can of worms but I am keen to look at this Most readers I've seen are USB devices. I use an SCR3

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread markus reichelt
* Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John W. Moore III wrote: > >Running Knoppix from the CD I encrypted the Linux partition and > >it's virtually invisible. (unless one knows my HD size) > What do you mean by this statement? Are you referring to the > /randomization of the partition by use

OpenGPG Card reader

2005-10-07 Thread Sean Rima
Hello gnupg-users, I am looking for a card reader to use under Linux, Win XP, possible as standalone or on a network. I know that asking for recommendations can open a can of worms but I am keen to look at this Sean -- +---+ |VOIP= FreeWorl

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Jones
John W. Moore III wrote: Running Knoppix from the CD I encrypted the Linux partition and it's virtually invisible. (unless one knows my HD size) What do you mean by this statement? Are you referring to the randomization of the partition by use of /dev/urandom? I also created a small FAT32 par

Re: gpg2 vs. gpg and OpenPGP card

2005-10-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:38:11 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer said: > But as using ssh-add -l with running gpg-agent can't find my key on the > card: > "The agent has no identities." There are a lot of reasons for this. Did you install scdaemon? Doesit work? You might want kill a running scdaemon and

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:07 +0800, nidhog wrote: >Do you guys have any suggestion as to how to go about encrypting a >partition that can be available both to linux and win32? Why not use a hardware solution, so it sits underneath the OS entirely? Seagate makes a new laptop drive that has built-in

Re: partition encryption?

2005-10-07 Thread zvrba
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:13:07AM -0700, Eric wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:07 +0800, nidhog wrote: > > Do you guys have any suggestion as to how to go about encrypting a > > partition that can be available both to linux and win32? > > It's not easy to do this, and I don't think it will get a

Re: gpg2 vs. gpg and OpenPGP card

2005-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Hi, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:29:48 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer said: > >> I want to perform SSH authentication the the card and therefore have to >> use gpg-agent. I just wanted to see if gpg2 - gpg-agent - scdaemon does > > Where is the problem? I am doing this for since early

Re: Decryption

2005-10-07 Thread Shatadal
Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:01:51 -0400, Mcqueen, Voncile LT said: > > >>Please decrypt the following message for me: >>jmjmj gsmsg lrjgu csqyj quflr mfajg erdmc cmqlv lqyhg gawgq arpgq sblce >>jrlrj lnemc cyjqu flrmf ajqer d > > > Thepi oneer sofaw arles sworl daret heyou th

Re: gpg2 vs. gpg and OpenPGP card

2005-10-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:29:48 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer said: > I want to perform SSH authentication the the card and therefore have to > use gpg-agent. I just wanted to see if gpg2 - gpg-agent - scdaemon does Where is the problem? I am doing this for since early this year. >From the GnuPG 1.9 RE

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric wrote: >> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:07 +0800, nidhog wrote: >> > Do you guys have any suggestion as to how to go about encrypting a partition that can be available both to linux and win32? > >> >> >> It's not easy to do this, and I don'

Re: Decryption

2005-10-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:01:51 -0400, Mcqueen, Voncile LT said: > Please decrypt the following message for me: > jmjmj gsmsg lrjgu csqyj quflr mfajg erdmc cmqlv lqyhg gawgq arpgq sblce > jrlrj lnemc cyjqu flrmf ajqer d Thepi oneer sofaw arles sworl daret heyou ththa trefu semil itary servi ce

Re: gpg2 vs. gpg and OpenPGP card

2005-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Hi, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:14:35 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer said: > >> my OpenPGP card works without problems with gpg (1.4.2) and an OpenPGP card. >> But if I use gpg2 (1.9.18) I get only the following: > > You shall not use gpg2 - it even does not get build by default. Are

Re: gpg2 vs. gpg and OpenPGP card

2005-10-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:14:35 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer said: > my OpenPGP card works without problems with gpg (1.4.2) and an OpenPGP card. > But if I use gpg2 (1.9.18) I get only the following: You shall not use gpg2 - it even does not get build by default. Are the notes > gpg: WARNING: This v

gpg2 vs. gpg and OpenPGP card

2005-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Hi, my OpenPGP card works without problems with gpg (1.4.2) and an OpenPGP card. But if I use gpg2 (1.9.18) I get only the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> gpg2 --card-status gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION! gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be gpg: used in a produ

Re: Migrating from PGP TO GPG

2005-10-07 Thread amit bhalerao
Hi , I want to decrypt a gpg encrypted document using a GPG. Is there any way i can decrypt it in a non -interactive mode so that it doesn't ask for passphrase.I want to execute the command in shell script. Any pointer to this would be of great help. Thanks, Amit On Sep 16, 2005, at 2

gpgme-1.1.0: make check: FAIL: t-sig-notation

2005-10-07 Thread William M. Perkins
I am trying to update gpgme-1.0.2 to gpgme-1.1.0: "./configure --enable-static" find all of the needed pieces: GPGME v1.1.0 has been configured as follows: GnuPG path:/usr/bin/gpg GnuPG version: 1.4.2, min. 1.2.2 GpgSM path:/usr/bin/gpgsm GpgSM v

Decryption

2005-10-07 Thread Mcqueen, Voncile LT
Please decrypt the following message for me: jmjmj gsmsg lrjgu csqyj quflr mfajg erdmc cmqlv lqyhg gawgq arpgq sblce jrlrj lnemc cyjqu flrmf ajqer d Thanks, Voncile ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/lis

Re: OpenPGP Card in SIM Size.

2005-10-07 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
> > is it possible to cut the OpenPGP Card to the size of a SIM Card without > > destroying it? > > I am asking this because i want to use a Kobil KAAN SIM III Reader, its > > a ccid compatible > > USB Token which takes Cards in SIM size. I guess it should work ..?! > > > > Of course, the problem

Re: Migrating from PGP TO GPG

2005-10-07 Thread amit bhalerao
Hi , Is there any way i can validate that decryption process has been successful base on error code? Do you have any document which list down possible error code and cause of failure. -Amit On Oct 5, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:02:52PM -0700

Re: partition encryption?

2005-10-07 Thread Eric
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:07 +0800, nidhog wrote: > Do you guys have any suggestion as to how to go about encrypting a > partition that can be available both to linux and win32? It's not easy to do this, and I don't think it will get any easier any time soon. The best solution I know of is a produc