Re: using gpg with private keys from openssl certificates?

2008-12-18 Thread Morton D. Trace
arghman wrote: > I'm experimenting w/ using the "freemail" certificates from thawte & was just > wondering if there is a way I can use them with gpg (openpgp, NOT S/MIME). I > can figure out how to use openssl to extract the rsa public key / private > key from the exported PKCS12 file, but I'm not

Re: doc bug???

2008-10-29 Thread Morton D. Trace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Li wrote: > Hello everyone > > I am totally a newcomer for gnupg, and I am reading the "The GNU Privacy > Handbook", the version string is "$Name: v1_1 $". > > In the handbook, all command options is begin with one dash, like this > "-gen-key"; but o

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

2008-10-22 Thread Morton D. Trace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > John W. Moore III wrote: >> Robert is a professional Mathematician and actually _loves_ Numbers. > > I'm a software engineer nowadays, although my college degrees are on the > math-heavy side of theoretical computer science.

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

2008-10-21 Thread Morton D. Trace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Faramir wrote: >> IIRC, once I saw somebody saying 128 bits is more than enough for a >> good passphrase. And that beyond that lenght, there was no real strengh >> gains... But maybe I am not recalling it correctly... > > Thi

There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

2008-10-20 Thread Morton D. Trace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear List readers! http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html GnuPG needs a pass phrase to protect the primary and subordinate private keys that you keep in your possession. You need a Pass phrase to protect your private key. Enter passphrase: T

Re: Paperkey for Revocation Certificates? (Feature-Request :-)

2008-10-06 Thread Morton D. Trace
David Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:12AM +0200, Sven Radde wrote: >> Am Sonntag, den 05.10.2008, 19:49 -0400 schrieb David Shaw: >>> A revocation certificate, on the other hand, doesn't >>> have all that much that can be removed. Luckily revocation >>> certificates are pretty sho

Re: Signatures stored as information inside a "public key"/certificate?

2008-06-13 Thread Morton D. Trace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bezna wrote: > Hello, > > Which is correct? Are signatures an inherent part of the key or are they > stored extrinsically? > > > George i would put it this way, when I run gpg in command line mode I create a user ID and a secret key + a pub

Re: GNUPG 1.4.9 intallation fails on Solaris SunOS 5.10

2008-06-12 Thread Morton D. Trace
Kush Asthana wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install GNUPG 1.4.9 on solaris 5.10 with following versions > > sparc-sun-solaris2.10 > gcc v 3.4.3 > ld: Software Generation Utilities - Solaris Link Editors: 5.10-1.482 > > Following error is encountered evertime I do make before you run make you