gnupg in larger scale for our OU

2006-01-01 Thread Thomas Widhalm
Hi! I just got in charge of some of the Linux- und Unix- Servers at the University of Salzburg. One of my tasks is to generate a possibility for our organizational unit to communicate safely via Email and store data encrypted. For some reasons I thought of implenting this on base of gnupg. Maybe

Using gpg in larger scale at a University

2006-01-01 Thread Thomas Widhalm
Hi! I already sent this email twice to this mailinglist, but it didn't appear at my mailserver, so I assume it didn't reach any of you. I just got in charge of managing Linux- and Unix servers at the University of Salzburg (Austria) and one of my first tasks is to implement a secure way of exc

Smartcard questions

2006-01-01 Thread Kurt Fitzner
I am still getting used to working with the OpenPGP smartcards, and I have a few questions: 1) Is it possible to erase one? For example, if a set of three keys has been generated on the card, and if later that card is going to be used for one or two subkeys, can the unused keys on the card be era

Re: Smart card signing failure

2006-01-01 Thread David Shaw
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:57:41AM -0700, Kurt Fitzner wrote: > I have solved my own problem. If the gpg.conf has a setting for > personal-digest-preferences, and if an algo that is supported by a > smartcard is not first in the list, then GnuPG will fail with any > signing operation made with a s

Re: GnuPG --edit-key, help req.

2006-01-01 Thread venona
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:36:03 +0530 Nicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does the usage letters mean in the key listing? > usage: CS > usage: SEA > What does SEA stand for? I think S and E stand for Signing and Encryption > respectively but what about A and C? A: Authentication C: Certi