Why GnuPG encrypted file has no icon?

2016-09-30 Thread Rohit P
When you encrypt multiple files in a folder, GnuPG encrypted files have no icon. It is difficult to immediately identify which are the encrypted files. Any specific reason why encrypted files have no icon? ... RP ___ Gnupg-users

RE: gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Error Message on Linux

2016-09-30 Thread Jim Ernst
Hi Werner and Justus - thank you for the info !! Is this issue normally associated with a --passphrase-fd 0 command being used with gpg2? I am doing the following: v_recipient='RECIPIENT' v_passphrase=`cat pfile.txt` /usr/local/bin/gpg2 --batch --local-user $v_recipient

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Andrew Gallagher
The problems always start with the words "public key"... On 30/09/16 15:22, Werner Koch wrote: > > So for example "lock" and "private key" may be better. "Lock and key" works for symmetric crypto, because you lock and unlock with the same key. "Latch and key" is the best analogy I know of to

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Ineiev
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 04:22:39PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > > The root of the problem might be the concept of "public key" and > "private key". You need to educate users that these are very different > things but still belong together. There is one more: "secret key". signature.asc

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Mirimir
On 09/30/2016 08:24 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I'd start with -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- :) > > You are technically correct (the best kind of correct!) [1] -- no, wait! > That's "key block", not "keyblock"! > > I'm more technically correct! I win! :) > > In all seriousness,

Re: recording and retrieving "secrets" into gpg files

2016-09-30 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Arbiel, Arbiel (gmx): > Hi > > Thank you Andrew. > > In the material I've been ready lately, all examples are written in a > programming language and I only have abilities in bash scripting. > > Can somebody, please, direct me toward a url where they provide bash > scripting examples. [...]

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 09/30/2016 04:24 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I'd start with -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- :) > > You are technically correct (the best kind of correct!) [1] -- no, > wait! That's "key block", not "keyblock"! > > I'm more technically correct! I win! :) > > In all seriousness, the

RE: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I'd start with -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- :) You are technically correct (the best kind of correct!) [1] -- no, wait! That's "key block", not "keyblock"! I'm more technically correct! I win! :) In all seriousness, the only context in which I've seen "key block" has been the

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:46, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > https://www.gpg4win.org/doc/en/gpg4win-compendium_12.html We had a long discussion many years ago on how to name the beast. The compendium somewhat prioritizes S/MIME and thus we tried to unify the terms by using "certificate" also for

Re: gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Error Message on Linux

2016-09-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:37, jus...@g10code.com said: > fallback pinentry failed to open the terminal due to the fact that stdin > of the gpg process is not connected to a terminal. The latter can > happen for example when gpg is used in a pipe. That does not matter. The pinentry opens the tty

Re: recording and retrieving "secrets" into gpg files

2016-09-30 Thread Arbiel (gmx)
Hi Thank you Andrew. In the material I've been ready lately, all examples are written in a programming language and I only have abilities in bash scripting. Can somebody, please, direct me toward a url where they provide bash scripting examples. Arbiel Le 28/09/2016 à 15:25, Andrew Gallagher

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 09/30/2016 02:46 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> In OpenPGP this is called a "keyblock". > > Where can I find this usage documented? In almost 25 years in the PGP > community I've heard the word "key" used >95% of the time, "certificate" > <5% of the time, and this is literally the first time

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> In OpenPGP this is called a "keyblock". Where can I find this usage documented? In almost 25 years in the PGP community I've heard the word "key" used >95% of the time, "certificate" <5% of the time, and this is literally the first time I've heard the word "keyblock". Also see:

RE: gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Error Message on Linux

2016-09-30 Thread Justus Winter
Hello, please don't drop the mailing list when replying. Jim Ernst writes: >> I am currently testing keys I created using gpg version 2 2.1.15 (libgcrypt >> 1.7.3) and I am trying to encrypt a file using a shell script in a LINUX >> environment. I am getting the

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 29/09/16 17:17, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > I have to admit to being extremely annoyed with the state of the language we > use. IMO, TOFU has just made it even worse. I tried to be really strict, talk about ownertrust and validity. Always trying to keep them separate. Personally avoiding the

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:23, gn...@jelmail.com said: > * A Public-Key packet starts a series of packets that forms an OpenPGP > key (sometimes called an OpenPGP certificate). In OpenPGP this is called a "keyblock". The term certificate is used only for some special thinks (revocation

Re: automate pga clipboard

2016-09-30 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, tim.dcl...@gmail.com: > i am using GPA 0.9.9 to encrypt text file data. i copy/paste my text > into the clipboard and hit encrypt. Im prompted to choose public key. > After choosing, i get the following results (less the blah blahs). > > I would like to do this from a command line so i can

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread John Lane
> [1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/openpgp/current/msg07712.html > > [2] ftp://ftp.pgpi.org/pub/pgp/6.5/docs/english/IntroToCrypto.pdf > Great link [1], very interesting. I think the language used hasn't helped the uptake of this technology. The other thing mentioned in there is trust

Re: Terminology - certificate or key ?

2016-09-30 Thread John Lane
> I have to admit to being extremely annoyed with the state of the language we > use. OpenPGP is hard enough to learn without having to be confused by > multiple names for the same algorithms, confusing usage of "certificate", > "key", and "Key", and every other bit of linguistic tomfoolery we