1 Topic by webfork

(1 replies, posted in Bugs & problems)

After disabling "inline" for Google.com sites (specifically Google Docs), I re-enabled.  Some elements worked correctly but some did not.


In Gmail:

What worked: Encrypted text was visible

What didn't work: Public keys and signed text were not affected.  The inline icon at the bottom was not indicated as "re-enabled".

Finally, I restarted the browser and logged into Gmail again and tried to re-enable inline.  Same problem occured.

(If this is unclear, I'm not doing this right, or I could do it better, please let me know.  I'm here to help.)

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2 Reply by webfork

(3 replies, posted in Requests)

I thought this was a problem with Google's Docs hiding it inside an HTML comment or something but no, it really does just delete the info.

I'm not sure what's happening but it appears to be an all-or-nothing kind of thing: either your document is encrypted or its not.  You can't combine encrypted and unencrypted components or it will mysteriously dump the encrypted part.

The only workaround I can see is to choose "deactivate inline for this site."  Right-click the little icon that looks like a grey-and-white wave to find this option.  When the PGP item is just pure text, it obviously has no problem with that.

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3 Reply by webfork

(1 replies, posted in New versions)

Awesome - thanks for all the work you put into this.

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4 Reply by webfork

(1 replies, posted in Bugs & problems)

Sure thing.  Drop me a line:

http://sites.google.com/site/foldinghome/publickey

My email address is the word before "publickey" @gmail.com

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5 Reply by webfork

(8 replies, posted in Bugs & problems)

gpg --import /home/USER/seckey.asc

If you don't like the command line and you're a Windows user, you can just install GnuPG for Windows: http://www.gpg4win.org/

When installing, make SURE you install "WinPT" component.  When you do, the program will give you a nice graphical interface to view both public AND private keys.

The interface looks something like this: http://www.rayservers.com/images/gpg4win/winpt1.GIF

  1. Right click the key icon in the task bar and choose "Key Manager".

  2. You'll see your FireGPG-generated key and other information.

  3. Click on the line that has your key and choose "Key" from the menu.

  4. Select "Export Secret Key"

  5. A file with the ending "sec.asc" file will be created with your secret key information.

There's nothing special about these sec.asc files.  You can open this with a regular text file editor if you'd like to see what's inside.  Make *sure* you store this key in a secure manner.

(Image source: http://www.rayservers.com/openpgp-for-windows)

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6 Reply by webfork

(10 replies, posted in Bugs & problems)

FireGPG 0.7.9, Firefox 3.0.14 (Portable) - Windows XP

Inline seems to work fine.  It worked okay before for me, but I'm not sure of SteveCP's setup.

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7 Reply by webfork

(3 replies, posted in Misc)

Chris,

First, how did you put this together?  There's a bunch of people on this forum that seem to be having problems doing FireGPG portably.  What did you do that these people didn't?

I'm very interested in this for a variety of reasons: I put together a "Firefox - Secure" version for something called The Kitchen Sink Portable Freeware.  I put a bunch of security plugins into Firefox and changed the home page to a secure, semi-anonymous Google site.  So I've done a lot of work with this.

If you keep working on this (I hope you do) you should be aware that in my travels I got a message from John Haller of PortableApps (he does Portable Firefox) telling me this wasn't totally legal.

Looking into this, it seems you need to get permission to use Mozilla Firefox's Trademark and redistribute their software.  This requirement made the guys over at Debian create a version called IceCat that doesn't have this requirement.  Its identical to Firefox but doesn't have their name.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat ... unfortuantely, its not out for Windows so this wasn't an option.

When I asked for permission on Mozilla's legal blog, they said this:

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla. … 4Xs7pefa-A

So I emailed parterns@mozilla.com and that's where I'm at right now.

Good luck and keep up the good work.

-WF

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