Re: How to use an offline primary key

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Lebbing
Sven Radde wrote: I thought that I would simply 'include' the primary key by adding --secret-keyring secring2.gpg whenever I need it for these kinds of operations, but GnuPG complains about missing parts of the secret key regardless of whether this option is present of not. AFAIK, GnuPG will

Re: How to use an offline primary key

2010-01-04 Thread M.B.Jr.
Hi list, I wish a great 2010 year for everybody! On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Sven Radde em...@sven-radde.de wrote: Hello GnuPG-Users! With a new year comes a new keypair and this time I tried to use subkeys to separate my secret primary key from the day-to-day encryption/signing keys.

Re: How to use an offline primary key

2010-01-04 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Peter Lebbing schrieb: By exchanging the order of the keyrings, hopefully this will mean it looks for the key in secring2.gpg first, where the primary key is included too. Works fine for certifying other people's keys, thank you! However, since all updates to the my key would be done to

Re: Encrypting with an message expiration date

2010-01-04 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:17 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Morten Gulbrandsen wrote: Allen Schultz wrote: Is there a way to force an expiration date when encrypting a message for additional security. [...] sure http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/ There are, as near as I can tell, only

Compatibility version between version 1.2 and 1.4.10

2010-01-04 Thread Stringer, Robert
Hi We just downloaded the latest version of GNuPg, version 1.4.10. Questions: Can we reuse the same keys to encrypt the data? Can we use the 1.4.10 version without any modifications on our systems? Is there any issues we must be aware regarding the new version? PS: GNUPG runs on WINDOWS 2003

Re: Compatibility version between version 1.2 and 1.4.10

2010-01-04 Thread David Shaw
On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Stringer, Robert wrote: Hi We just downloaded the latest version of GNuPg, version 1.4.10. Questions: Can we reuse the same keys to encrypt the data? Impossible to say without knowing how you are using GPG. I can say almost certainly, though. Can we

how to find the keygrip of a key

2010-01-04 Thread silly8888
Hi all, I have a gpg key that I would like to add to gpg-agent using the gpg-preset-passphrase. I understand that gpg-preset-passphrase expects me to provide the keygrip the key but I cannot see how to find it. The key is an ordinary gpg key, nothing to do with gpgsm. Any help would be