Re: What does key properties validity and trust 'None' mean???

2006-08-19 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:30:26AM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote: > We are new to GPG and we have used gpg4win 1.0.5 to install the > programs on Windows XP Pro PC:s. Some years ago we used PGP 7, but now > it turns out that we cannot get it to work on our XP-Pro PC:s so we > are trying GPG instead. >

Re: How to verify the file was successfully encrypted...

2006-07-14 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:31:39PM -0400, Vladimir Doisan wrote: > The user base of GnuPG is huge, and any serious bugs in the code will > be weeded out very quickly by the beta testers and early adopters. > Invalid encryptions is a VERY serious bug. Sadly this is not true enough, as has been illu

Re: How to verify the file was successfully encrypted...

2006-07-13 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:59:52AM -0600, Benny Helms wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 12:25 +0200, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:38:23PM -0600, Benny Helms wrote: > > > What is your actual threat model here? > > > > The simplest answer is to check gpg's rc after the en

Re: Corrupting files

2006-06-13 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:55:54PM +0200, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > No, it doesn't. You are still believing in security-by-obscurity meaning > that your additional "encryption" only works as long as you and the > recipient are the only ones who know the secret rule. Please Ingo, _all_ encryption is

Re: Why are my signatures being labelled as bad?

2006-04-21 Thread Samuel ]slund
Hi Robert, I would guess that by "signed" you mean clear-signed. Are you using Mime or in-line signatures? Clear-signed, esp in-line, messages can suffer from email clients and MTA's that make "corrections" like changing character encoding or wrapping lines. HTH //Samuel On Wed, Apr 19, 2006

Re: gpg on cron task

2006-02-04 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 02:23:47AM +, enediel gonzalez wrote: > Hello: > I use debian sarge and I need to encrypt and decrypt automatically backup > files using gpg > Snip > > When I execute the script manually as root, I obtain the encrypted file, > but if I put the same script

Re: hard-copy backups

2006-01-05 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:07:17PM -0500, Atom Smasher wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: > > >from my experience, all keys for long-term, _safe storage_ (and after > >revocation) should be kept with no passphases at all > > > >human memory is very volatile and some day you

Re: gpg and PHP (return value 2)

2005-11-09 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:29:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:08:16PM -, Pete Croft wrote: > > > > I suspect it's a permissions problem: the source file for encryption > > exists, the key is correct, and the exact same command issued via CLI > > produces the

Re: GPG Passphrase on the command line

2005-09-25 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 12:43:44AM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote: > > No, you'll have to pipe it through a file descriptor with --passphrase-fd. > But with the echo command it can be done on a commandline too on fd 0: > echo password | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --decrypt / --encrypt. > > For some reasons

Re: Signing MS-Excel spread sheets

2005-09-05 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:07:13AM -0400, Berend Tober wrote: > Kimmo Surakka wrote: > > >Just my two cents worth: isn't it true that most Windows zippers can > >open a file "from inside a zip archive", i.e. uncompress it > >transparently to a temp directory and open from there? One easy-to-

Re: [outlgpg] Outlook 2003 problems

2005-08-11 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:29:01PM -0500, R. Jensen wrote: > > As to copying the data that shows up as part of Microsoft's error > reporting. The text is not selectable. > > So, I don't see any path going forward that will help resolve the > problem on my system: > Dr. Watson doesn't seem to ge

Re: Proof of email ownership

2005-08-06 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:36:02AM +0100, Adam Cripps wrote: > On 8/6/05, Samuel ]slund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:36:49PM +0200, David Srbecky wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Keywords you are looking for include "web of thrust"

Re: Proof of email ownership

2005-08-05 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:36:49PM +0200, David Srbecky wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed GnuPG to Thunderbird, created a key pair and uploaded > it to a keyserver. I have expected to receive some mail designed to > verify that I really own the email address (similar to the one that just > r

Re: Dash escape (Was no subject)

2005-07-04 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:54:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm using GnuPG 1.4.1 on WinXP Service Pack 2. Whenever I --clearsign a text > message containing some kind of list, dash characters get duplicated. Is > that a feature or bug? See yourself ... As you can see OpenPG

Re: UTF-8 support

2005-05-21 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:21:01AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > can anyone tell me why when setting utf-8 for cmd.exe, gpg switches back to > its default character set. In cmd.exe I do the follwoing to change the > codepage: > > chcp > > For Windows XP Pro wiht German locale and Tru

Add to FAQ! Re: Newbie question : GPgee and GPGshell etc..

2005-05-12 Thread Samuel ]slund
Hi This seems like a good description of Windows GUI for GnuPG. If I was looking for a GUI this is the information I would like to have. Could someone with access add it to the FAQ? The question could be "Does GnuPG for windows have a GUI?", possibly under the installation heading. //Samuel On W

Re: gpg/keyboard issue

2005-03-24 Thread Samuel ]slund
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:29:35PM -0500, Alver wrote: > Hello, > > I just imported my gpg keys from my previous install. However, when > trying to use them to sign/encrypt/decrypt, my passphrase fails, even > though I'm one hundred percent certain it's correct. > > Possible cause: my passphra