Re: Limit of maximum password length

2012-10-29 Thread John Clizbe
j...@dodec.lt wrote: Ok thanks, just found that compiling gpg without agent can be workaround as well. On 10/27/2012 10:17 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 10/27/2012 3:12 PM, j...@dodec.lt wrote: Is it somehow possible to bypass ncurses dialog window? You want to use GnuPG 1.4, which does

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread User
On 10/10/2012 2:19 PM, John wrote: Werner Koch wrote in message news:87pq4qu8ll.fsf__19171.1511499763$1349851992$gmane$o...@vigenere.g10code.de... On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 19:41, jw72...@verizon.net said: The latest beta version fails to work properly on my 64-bit Windows 7 OS. Is this the

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 10/29/2012 2:05 PM, User wrote: You may want to take a look at GPGshell for an alternative. GPGshell is not Free Software, and for that reason it's not exactly appropriate to recommend it on this list. Whether we agree or disagree with the Free Software Foundation -- I personally disagree

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread User
On 10/29/2012 1:34 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 10/29/2012 2:05 PM, User wrote: You may want to take a look at GPGshell for an alternative. GPGshell is not Free Software, and for that reason it's not exactly appropriate to recommend it on this list. It is free and it says Freeware right

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 10/29/2012 04:28 PM, User wrote: It is free and it says Freeware right on the page where the reference to downloading it was shown: It is not Free Software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html 'Free software' means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, the

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread User
On 10/29/2012 3:41 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 10/29/2012 04:28 PM, User wrote: It is free and it says Freeware right on the page where the reference to downloading it was shown: It is not Free Software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html 'Free software' means software that

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread John Clizbe
Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 10/29/2012 2:05 PM, User wrote: You may want to take a look at GPGshell for an alternative. GPGshell is not Free Software, and for that reason it's not exactly appropriate to recommend it on this list. Whether we agree or disagree with the Free Software

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/29/2012 02:37 PM, User wrote: Just because you have decided to cherry pick your definition of the English word free does not make it more or less so. It isn't Robert who is picking the definition, it's the FSF. Arguing about the definition here isn't going to do anyone any good, since the

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread User
On 10/29/2012 4:50 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 10/29/2012 5:37 PM, User wrote: Just because you have decided to cherry pick your definition of the English word free does not make it more or less so. The word not only can be used to mean unconstrained, such as you seem to want, but it can,

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread User
On 10/29/2012 4:50 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 10/29/2012 5:37 PM, User wrote: Just because you have decided to cherry pick your definition of the English word free does not make it more or less so. The word not only can be used to mean unconstrained, such as you seem to want, but it can,

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread User
On 10/29/2012 4:43 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 10/29/2012 02:37 PM, User wrote: Just because you have decided to cherry pick your definition of the English word free does not make it more or less so. It isn't Robert who is picking the definition, it's the FSF. Arguing about the definition

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread Sin Trenton
Just because you have decided to cherry pick your definition of the English word free does not make it more or less so. The word not only can be used to mean unconstrained, such as you seem to want, but it can, and in fact more commonly does, also mean obtainable without any payment. And you

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-29 Thread Christopher J. Walters
On 10/29/2012 06:31 PM, User wrote: You are obviously a troll, and not a very good one at that. Good riddance. You just appear out of nowhere and try to start a flame war with a respected member of this community, and call him a troll. Who here is using a hushmail address? Who here has

Re: Limit of maximum password length

2012-10-29 Thread Christopher J. Walters
On 10/27/2012 02:54 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: No, I don't. I think that using passphrases longer than about 80 characters shows you don't understand the problem. :) Yes, and only a savant could memorize even an 80 character passphrase. A 1024-character passphrase is so long I doubt you

Re: Limit of maximum password length

2012-10-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 10/29/2012 8:00 PM, Christopher J. Walters wrote: Good idea. It'll work on any system that will run GnuPG, and produce pretty secure passphrases. Speaking only for myself, I find these passphrases to be at the upper limit of what I can reliably memorize, and I can only keep track of four or