Re: Set date for signature to expire

2005-06-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:09:59 +0200, Per Tunedal Casual said: > Issuers of X509 certificates use 1 year for soft certificates and 5 years > for card certificates. I don't know their calculations behind that decision. That is a different thing: It is the expiration time of the key; something one sh

Re: Passphrase Encoding and Entropy

2005-06-08 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! Please don't forget that the passphrase is only used to protect the secret key. It is a last resort protection mechanism. If someone was able to get your secret key you are better off to revoke the key and consider it compromised. The passphrase gives you some time to get the word (i.e. the

GnuPG in Brazil

2005-06-08 Thread Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello people!! I am Brazilian and it would like to found a community of GNUPG here in Brazil. I would like to create a discussion list GNUPG-BR for the interested Brazilians in the gnupg. Which the responsible person for the site gnupg.org so that

Re: cross-OS transparent encryption

2005-06-08 Thread C. D. Rok
Erpo wrote: Unless there's some other option out there that hasn't already been mentioned, in which case I think a lot of people would be interested, particularly Hernan and me. One of the disk encryption products for Windows XP/2000/2003 is at: http://www.truecrypt.org/ In their documentati

Re: GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

2005-06-08 Thread Dan Mundy
Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 11:36:32 +0200, Martin Geisler said: > > >>I don't know how Outlook (not Express) handles things. > > > It won't be possible to verify a signature with Outlook due to the > fact that it is not possible to get to the raw MIME headers. It might > be possi

Re: First release candidate for GnuPG 1.4.2 available

2005-06-08 Thread Dan Mundy
Gregor Zattler wrote: > Did you restart tunderbird or did you exec > thunderbird --> Menu enigmail --> Submenu OpenPGP key management > --> New Window: Menu File --> Submenu Reload Key Cache? i did both, and still, i got the same message. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

RE: Passphrase Encoding and Entropy

2005-06-08 Thread Ryan Malayter
[Oskar L.] > Thanks for your anwser, but I'm afraid you mostly told me > what I already know. What I don't understand is how this > relates to breaking passphrases. > For example, say I use the passphrase foobar. It has 6 > characters, each represented by 8 bits, so it will be > represented by

encryption ransom virus (was Re: cross-OS transparent encryption)

2005-06-08 Thread Erpo
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 05:12 -0600, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > I will caution you that at one time RedHat put in support for the > NTFS file system [...] The old NTFS driver may have caused problems when partitions were mounted read-write. However, the new NTFS driver doesn't do that. Unless you

Re: Passphrase Encoding and Entropy

2005-06-08 Thread Ivan Boldyrev
On 9134 day of my life Oskar L. wrote: > Now if the attacker knows that I have only used the 23 characters > a-z in the passphrase, then she/he can represent all of them using 5 > bits. But he also knows that you use ASCII encoding for you passphrase. > But I don't understand how this helps the a

Re: 1er contacto

2005-06-08 Thread Hernan Costante
it seems to me a good idea 2005/6/6, Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > if you want me to create a Spanish speaking user list, just tell me > along with a commitment to do some moderation. > > Salam-Shalom, > >Werner > > > ___ > Gnupg-us

Re: cross-OS transparent encryption

2005-06-08 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
Dan Mundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Erpo wrote: > >>The spanish thread on the list right now is revolving around the problem >>of sharing encrypted data between WinXP and Linux. The original poster >>wants to share a read/write partition between the two OSs on a laptop >>and have transparent en