I've been blessed with the task of writing functions that will be used to encrypt / decrypt data files using the Gnupg (gpg command) software on our Solaris 9. This was just installed last friday and I've got no documentation other than what I've found on the web.
I was successful in writing... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have imported the details given by my friend using
gpg --import <file>
Now i am using the encryption technique with my friend's key in the following way:
gpg --output out.pgp --batch --encrypt --recipient "FRIEND_KEY" test
and i am getting the follwoing error:
gpg: 421E287E:... (4 Replies)
I have some sensitive data I would like to keep on a thumb drive.
Now I know this is a UNIX/Linux forum and I regret to say that I'm using windows but I'm hoping that is irrelevant.
So I install gpg on both windows machines: one at home and the other at work.
I encrypt some stuff on the... (2 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I have been using symmetric gpg encryption. I encrypt a file as follows
gpg --symmetric <file name>
then It asks to enter password two times
Now the problme is, I have some 700 odd files to be encrypted by using symmetric gpg encription
Can u plz tell me how to do that by... (14 Replies)
Hello all
I have installed gpg key be executing command
gpg --gen-key and followed the on screen prompts.
I have done all this stuff from my home directory
Now i am unable to see the results. Where are these keys stored. Doesn't it create a new folder in my home directory and create the... (1 Reply)
Folks,
Is there anyone to help on GPG file encryptions here.
I got a public key from third party. I imported the key in server.
I want to encrypt the public key. But without being signed , the key cannot be encrypted.
When I try to sign the key using lsign command,
I am getting the below... (1 Reply)
Hi,
While m using gpg manually it works fine. I want to include this command in my auto script. how to pass the passphrase and Use this key anyway? (y/N) in my script. Advance thanks.
$ gpg --sign --output xx.gpg --encrypt --recipient GXS_CTE xx.ext
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am working on Solaris 10 OS on X4170M2 server. I have some .gpg encrypted files and i want to decrypt them but i dont know how to install the binary of gpg.
Here is the binary in system :
root@ecmstest # ls -larth
total 1273904
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5M Oct 14 ... (1 Reply)
Hi. I'm hitting issues using gpg to encrypt a text file on Linux.
gpg -c --passphrase 123 --cipher-algo AES256 test
gpg: cancelled by user
gpg: error creating passphrase: Operation cancelled
gpg: symmetric encryption of `test' failed: Operation cancelled
In this case the file test just... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: user052009
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
amcrypt
AMCRYPT(8) System Administration Commands AMCRYPT(8)NAME
amcrypt - reference crypt program for Amanda symmetric data encryption
SYNOPSIS
amcrypt
DESCRIPTION
amcrypt requires aespipe, uuencode and gpg to work. Aespipe is available from : http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net
amcrypt will search for the aespipe program in the following directories: /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin.
amcrypt calls amaespipe and pass the passphrase through file descriptor 3. The passphrase should be stored in ~amanda/.am_passphrase.
HOW TO CREATE ENCRYPTION KEYS FOR AMCRYPT
1. Create 65 random encryption keys and encrypt those keys using gpg. Reading from /dev/random may take indefinitely long if kernel's
random entropy pool is empty. If that happens, do some other work on some other console (use keyboard, mouse and disks).
head -c 2925 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | head -n 66 | tail -n 65 | gpg --symmetric -a > ~amanda/.gnupg/am_key.gpg
This will ask for a passphrase. Remember this passphrase as you will need it in the next step.
2. Store the passphrase inside the home-directory of the AMANDA-user and protect it with proper permissions:
echo my_secret_passphrase > ~amanda/.am_passphrase
chown amanda:disk ~amanda/.am_passphrase
chmod 700 ~amanda/.am_passphrase
KEY AND PASSPHRASE
amcrypt uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt data.
It is very important to store and protect the key and the passphrase properly. Encrypted backup data can only be recovered with the correct
key and passphrase.
SEE ALSO amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), aespipe(1), amaespipe(8), gpg(1)
The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/
AUTHOR
Kevin Till <kevin.till@zmanda.com>
Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
Amanda 3.3.1 02/21/2012 AMCRYPT(8)