Re: How to join pubring.kbx and pubring.gpg?

2017-06-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2017-06-16 11:32:15 +0200, Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote: > Well, there is the Monkeysphere's pem2openpgp tool [1], but AFAIK it > only works with *private* keys, not public keys. for the record, pem2openpgp works with both public keys and private keys. --dkg

Re: How to join pubring.kbx and pubring.gpg?

2017-06-16 Thread Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez
On 2017-06-16 at 10:27, Binarus wrote: > Here is where my worry begins. AFAIK, all PGP variants are using RSA key > pairs. A public X.509 certificate is just a container for such keys (and > possibly has information about the certificate chain). Given that, in my > naive world, it should be no

Re: How to join pubring.kbx and pubring.gpg?

2017-06-16 Thread Binarus
On 16.06.2017 11:32, Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote: > Well, there is the Monkeysphere's pem2openpgp tool [1], but AFAIK it > only works with *private* keys, not public keys. Most articles / tutorials I came across during my research were dealing with private keys ... that should have made me

Re: How to join pubring.kbx and pubring.gpg?

2017-06-16 Thread Damien Goutte-Gattat
Hi, On 06/16/2017 10:27 AM, Binarus wrote: Unfortunately, I didn't find any hint on how to extract that key. It is in the certificate for sure, and I think I will eventually be able to dump it after playing some time with OpenSSL, but then I eventually won't know how to integrate it into

Re: How to join pubring.kbx and pubring.gpg?

2017-06-16 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 16/06/17 10:27, Binarus wrote: > [...] or if the whole software / data exchange protocol depends on > the sort of key. In other words, even if I would manage to extract > the key and to integrate it into the Enigmail / gpg4win world, would > the communication partner be able to decrypt the

Re: How to join pubring.kbx and pubring.gpg?

2017-06-16 Thread Binarus
At first, I'd like to thank you for the great explanations. On 14.06.2017 19:21, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote: > As far as I know, GPGSM is a GPG tool to use X.509 certificates. That's > not the OpenPGP protocol. With this said... Here is where my worry begins. AFAIK, all PGP variants are

Re: How to join pubring.kbx and pubring.gpg?

2017-06-14 Thread Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez
On 2017-06-14 at 16:04, Binarus wrote: > 1) gpgsm seems to be the only tool which can be used to extract public > keys or convert certificates from the .p7b format to the format needed > by GPG. Fortunately, gpgsm is included in the gpg4win package, so I > could use it on my system. > As far as

How to join pubring.kbx and pubring.gpg?

2017-06-14 Thread Binarus
Dear experts, I am running Thunderbird, Enigmail and gpg4win on Windows 7. All components are up to date, and I am using this combination successfully since several years for signing, encrypting and decrypting email messages. Now, for the first time, a new communication partner won't provide his