Re: Verifying Encryption Algorithms

2011-09-20 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 9/19/2011 11:15 PM, zerious wrote: > My main question is: how can i get a warm fuzzy that a file has > [i]really[/i] been encrypted > using the cipher and digest that i specify and not something else? Check a program called 'pgpdump'. Of course, this raises the question of how can you get a w

Re: windows binary for gnupg 1.4.11 // compilation instructions posted

2011-09-20 Thread vedaal
>Message: 8 >Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:28:34 -0400 >From: Avi >To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >What about us windows users who do not have GPG installed on our >desktops, but our secure USB sticks. 1.4.11 works very nicely as >a stand-alone (or in my case, with GPGShell). >However, I am not a real p

Re: windows binary for gnupg 1.4.11 // compilation instructions posted

2011-09-20 Thread Avi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Fair enough, I was not precise, my apologies. I run GnuPG off a Truecrypt encrypted partition on a USB stick, so I can access it places where I do not wish to load my keyring, and cannot install a card reader. I find that version 1.4.11 with GPGShel

Re: Verifying Encryption Algorithms

2011-09-20 Thread Simone Cianfriglia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi zerious, First of all: The following answer is about "how to get those informations from an encrypted message". If you need to force some algorithms, you can use the --cipher-algo, --digest-algo, --compress-algo and --cert-digest-algo options. =

Re: windows binary for gnupg 1.4.11 // compilation instructions posted

2011-09-20 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 9/20/2011 3:23 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > There is no such thing as a secure USB stick to run programs from. If I determine that my work PC and my home PC are both trusted systems, and I have a single USB stick containing my GnuPG installation and keyrings that I want to use on both, then I don't

Re: windows binary for gnupg 1.4.11 // compilation instructions posted

2011-09-20 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Friday 16 September 2011, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 9/16/2011 2:49 PM, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > > Because then who is to say that it wasn't tampered with? > > Who's to say the one on ftp.gnupg.org wasn't tampered with? It would > be fairly easy to make a version of GnuPG that always rep

Re: Posting rules for the gnupg-devel@ mailing list

2011-09-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:31:44PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi there! > > Please Cc: me, I am not subscribed to the list. > > I found what I think is a bug in gpg-agent (the environment file should > be delete when quitting), please see: > >

Posting rules for the gnupg-devel@ mailing list

2011-09-20 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Please Cc: me, I am not subscribed to the list. I found what I think is a bug in gpg-agent (the environment file should be delete when quitting), please see: Yest

Re: windows binary for gnupg 1.4.11 // compilation instructions posted

2011-09-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:28, avi.w...@gmail.com said: > What about us windows users who do not have GPG installed on our > desktops, but our secure USB sticks. 1.4.11 works very nicely as > a stand-alone (or in my case, with GPGShell). I'm afraid that > 2.+ would not work properly when installed to a

Re: windows binary for gnupg 1.4.11 // compilation instructions posted

2011-09-20 Thread Avi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 What about us windows users who do not have GPG installed on our desktops, but our secure USB sticks. 1.4.11 works very nicely as a stand-alone (or in my case, with GPGShell). I'm afraid that 2.+ would not work properly when installed to an encrypted

Verifying Encryption Algorithms

2011-09-20 Thread zerious
Hi. I am relatively new to gpg and i have a few questions about it. I'm using 1.4.11 on Ubuntu and 2.0.17 on windows(gpg4win). My main question is: how can i get a warm fuzzy that a file has [i]really[/i] been encrypted using the cipher and digest that i specify and not something else? I was thi

Re: windows binary for gnupg 1.4.11 // compilation instructions posted

2011-09-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:28, jpcli...@tx.rr.com said: > Many tools such as autoconf have to be installed from the Interix community > site. To build gnupg you don't need autoconf. A bare bones development system is always sufficient. autoconf is only used to create the configure script which is