Re: public newer than the signature

2008-08-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Note that in some instances, GnuPG will use an ISO date format as opposed to seconds-since-Epoch. Is this for non-Unix-like systems or is it something completely different? Well we use it for all parts of GnuPG-2 except for gpg. The reason

Re: public newer than the signature

2008-08-13 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Faramir wrote: Well... just an example: some time ago, the Open Document Format The ODF-OOXML debate really has very little to do with date and time standards. If there was an obviously correct way of doing things, both document formats would support it. The problem tends to be this: how do

Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread Kiss Gabor (Bitman)
I have the same problem as was answered by David Shaw in 2004: http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.gnupg.users/2004-06/msg00022.html (Converting a vry old PGP key (2.6.3ia) to GnuPG.) However the method he suggested does not work for me: $ gpg --s2k-cipher-algo cast5 --edit-key 0x5D144299 gpg (GnuPG)

Re: Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote: What should I do? I'd start by asking whether you really need that key. 512-bit RSA is nowhere near modern standards of sufficiency; it is quite likely that in just a few years such keys will be able to be broken by motivated high school students. RSA-512 is grossly

Re: public newer than the signature

2008-08-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:43:49PM -0500, Andrew Berg wrote: Time for computers is generally just the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 at 12:00:00 UTC if I'm not mistaken. Date formats are derived from that and displayed according to the user's preference. Would that it were that

AW: transfer private key data between applications

2008-08-13 Thread Lorenz, Michael
Hi David, thanks for your suggestion. I already had an eye on BouncyCastle but thought it could not be that hard to get the key data :) But I will try BC for they can handle the package format of the gpg-files too. Thanks again! Michael -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: David Shaw

Re: [GnuPG-users] Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread Kiss Gabor (Bitman)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd start by asking whether you really need that key. 512-bit RSA is nowhere near modern standards of sufficiency; it is quite likely that in just a few years such keys will be able to be broken by motivated high school students. This key is to

Re: [GnuPG-users] Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If this cannot be done by my self in one hour then I figure out what is the cost of changing the key. Use pgp to set the passphrase to empty, then export the secret key and import it in gpg. If you like add a new passphrase using gpg

Re: Importing old PGP key

2008-08-13 Thread vedaal
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:54:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Kiss Gabor (Bitman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Importing old PGP key I have the same problem as was answered by David Shaw in 2004: http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.gnupg.users/2004-06/msg00022.html (Converting a vry old PGP key (2.6.3ia)