entropy gathering daemon

2018-02-04 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
Is it no longer possible to use egd? Most of the info I can find seems rather old, and so far I haven't been able to find a way to make it work. If it is still possible how do I do it. Thanks in advance, Edgar ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

[patches] add support for arc4random_buf()

2018-02-05 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
to be used on filesystems mounted nodev while providing quick, quality randomness. Thanks, Edgar Pettijohn --- configure.ac Wed Dec 13 07:51:33 2017 +++ /home/edgar/libgcrypt-1.8.2/configure.ac Mon Feb 5 19:59:17 2018 @@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@ # Other checks AC_CHECK_FUNCS(strerror rand mmap

Re: How can we utilize latest GPG from RPM repository?

2018-02-17 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
On 02/17/18 17:06, helices wrote: I will probably never understand why wanting to run the most current version of gnupg on a plethora of servers is controversial. Nevertheless, the two (2) greatest reasons are: 1. PCI DSS v3.2 2. PCI DSS compliance audits Being able to demonstrate that

packet syntax

2018-04-11 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
I'm trying to learn the pgp packet syntax. I created a new key with gpg2 --gen-key and then gpg2 --export > pubkey.key and then gpg2 --dearmor pubkey.key. Which left me with a pubkey.key.gpg file. I then did a hexdump of the file and the first word is `99' which in binary would be `10011001'.

Re: GnuPG installation

2018-03-21 Thread Edgar Pettijohn
On 03/21/18 15:27, BRIONES Bobby wrote: Hi, Thanks for responding. We are using linux. Bobby Which flavor? You will need to find out whatever the package manager is for whichever flavor of linux you are using. You will need root permissions either through su(1) or sudo(8). Or you can