
On Thursday 22 March 2007 07:45, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thu March 22 2007 01:12, Bob S wrote:
As an offshoot to this question, I recently upgraded from SuSE 10.0 to SuSE 10.2. I preserved my /home partition and copied it over from 10.0 to 10.2. That brought over everything including the .gnupg files. I had a few files encrypted in another directory and now I cannot decrypt them. I just used the simple "password" method originally on 10.0, not the pubic and private keys method wanting to keep it simple.
So, I figured that I needed to set up kgpg again, but no matter what I tried I could not decrypt my files. I read the kgpg handbook over and over and I even downloaded the howto from gnugpg. No good.
Maybe some fresh thoughts on what I am missing would help?
Hi Bob,
Can you elaborate here, please? What is the "password" encryption method you're alluding to here? Also, do you still have a snapshot of your original 10.0 /home?
Hi Carl, Thanks for replying. When I set it up in 10.0 I chose the simplest form of encryption. Here is a blurb from the manual. "Symmetrical encryption: your data is just encrypted with a password. Anybody who has a computer with gpg can decrypt your message if you give him/her the password. To perform a symmetrical encryption, choose "symmetrical encryption" in the options box when asked to choose an encryption key." Seems that in 10.2 I cannot choose that option. Not there. I don't have a snapshot as such but I can still mount the old partition and see what is there. Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org