Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-06 Thread Stefan Claas
On Sun, 6 Aug 2017 11:16:19 +0100, MFPA wrote: > I tested using text written in Notepad under Windows 10, then > clearsigned using GnuPG, pasted into Facebook, and hit "post". When > the post appeared on my timeline, I copied the text back from the post > and verified the signature without any

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-06 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Saturday 5 August 2017 at 2:56:20 PM, in , Stefan Claas wrote:- > Well, to me the formatting then looks a bit ugly. :-) It does look ugly. But it is a text message, not a presentation. > But

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-06 Thread Stefan Claas
On Sun, 6 Aug 2017 00:29:37 -0500, Werewolf wrote: > A simpler methode on a linux system > gpg --clearsign|qrencode -o message.png > For Decoding message and verifying signature > zbarimg message.jpg| sed "s/QR-Code:-/-/g"|gpg > > or just to verify signature > zbarimg message.png| sed

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-06 Thread Werewolf
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:46:19PM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > So, simply prepare your short GnuPG message and then do a: > > $ qrencode -o message.png < message.txt.asc, to obtain a > .png image, ready to be posted on social media sites. A simpler methode on a linux system gpg

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-05 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I posted your little bit of advice to a Linux group on FB - the > reaction was not as I expected - condescending replies in the main - > none of whom and the intelligence to see the implications - I felt I > was defending what was a good idea. Some years ago while teaching computer literacy at

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-05 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 05/08/17 12:44, Stefan Claas wrote: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 11:30:08 +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > >> Hello Stefan, >> >> Firstly the "<" did the trick - I used QtQr - to decode back and then >> to decrypt Kleopatra - and it worked fine QtQR creates pngs but did >> not use this feature. > >

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-05 Thread Stefan Claas
On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 13:14:13 +0100, MFPA wrote: > For Facebook, pasting in the signed and/or encrypted message and > clicking "post" is the simplest way. Well, to me the formatting then looks a bit ugly. :-) I also tried it again with a document created with Text Wrangler under OS X, clear

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-05 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Friday 4 August 2017 at 1:46:19 PM, in , Stefan Claas wrote:- > Hi all, > i don't know how many of you folks use social media > sites like Twitter > and Facebook etc. and wondered what's a way to

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-05 Thread Stefan Claas
On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 11:30:08 +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > Hello Stefan, > > Firstly the "<" did the trick - I used QtQr - to decode back and then > to decrypt Kleopatra - and it worked fine QtQR creates pngs but did > not use this feature. Hi David, glad that it works now for you. > I've

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-05 Thread Stefan Claas
On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 02:55:39 +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 23:13:26 +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > > > (8) zbarimg can display a png like any other but seems not capable > > of converting it back to its original form. Am working on a > > solution > > Hi, > > sorry to hear

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-04 Thread Stefan Claas
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 23:13:26 +0100, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > (8) zbarimg can display a png like any other but seems not capable of > converting it back to its original form. Am working on a solution Hi, sorry to hear that it is not working for you! I tried this already several times and it

Re: Posting short GnuPG clear signed messages on social media sites

2017-08-04 Thread da...@gbenet.com
On 04/08/17 13:46, Stefan Claas wrote: > zbarimg image.jpg > output.txt && sed "s/QR-Code:-/-/g" output.txt Hello, I decided to follow your instructions: (1) I encrypted some text file size 1569 bytes (2) I ran qrencode -o david.png david.asc (3) Got david.png 291 bytes (4) I ran your command