Hi.
Thanks for all of the responses. I'll be purchasing:
'PGP & GPG Email for the Practical Paranoid'
By NoStarch Press ($24.95)
next week.
Thanks,
~Caitlin
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On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:08:37PM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote:
> Not directly related to GnuPG, but does anyone here know the book
> "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" fromn A.J. Menezes, P.C. van Oorschoot
> and S.A. Vanstone, printed in 1996? I found it on eDonkey and wanted to
> know if someone k
Qed wrote:
>No, since the security issue is not related to the underlying
>cryptographic algorithms(e.g.: some time ago ElGamal signatures were
>discovered to be weak, so in newer version of GnuPG the generation of
>such keys is disabled).
They were not weak, there was an implementation error in
Hello,
Not directly related to GnuPG, but does anyone here know the book
"Handbook of Applied Cryptography" fromn A.J. Menezes, P.C. van Oorschoot
and S.A. Vanstone, printed in 1996? I found it on eDonkey and wanted to
know if someone knows if it is advisable. It appears quite mathematical
in its
Bo Berglund escribe:
> So how does one do this on Windows
I use Cygwin's gnupg so gpg.conf is at ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf just as usual
on a UNIX computer.
Below my gpg.conf, these are lines used on both Linux and Windows:
default-cert-check-level 3
default-recipient-self
keyserver pgp.rediris.es
k
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> A smartcard is very convenient as far as it's a multi application
> device, so you can store much other info apart from GnuPG keys,
> i.e. Mozilla passwords or such.
... I'm sorry, I'm scratching my head over here trying to figure out how
a flash drive doesn't als
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: RIPEMD160
On 08/20/2006 07:31 AM, Caitlin wrote:
> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
> it, would this represent a potential security concern?
Your keyring would be stored in your personal home dir, if you have
installed XP
Caitlin wrote:
> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
> it, would this represent a potential security concern?
We can't answer this question with a 'yes' or a 'no'. Decisions about
security are up to you. We can hopefully give you some questions which
will help yo
Robert J. Hansen escribe:
> Speaking for myself, I have doubts about the long-term security of
> RSA/1024. I much prefer RSA/2048 instead. Thus, the OpenPGP card fails
> to meet my own security policy... whereas storing a copy of my private
> key on my USB dongle, with a high-security passphrase,
Jonathan Rockway escribe:
> I would recommend that you don't do that. What if you lose the drive?
> Then your private key is compromised. Do you have a revocation
> certificate in a safe location? If not, you can't even tell anyone that
> your private key has been compromised! Not good!
Sure!
On Sunday 20 August 2006 6:31 am, Caitlin wrote:
> Hi all.
Hi and welcome :-)
> Ok. I'm quite interested in GnuPG but I felt compelled to ask a few
> questions. Ready?
>
> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
> it, would this represent a potential security concern
Hi all.
Ok. I'm quite interested in GnuPG but I felt compelled to ask a few
questions. Ready?
1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
it, would this represent a potential security concern?
2). Would I have to copy and paste encrypted messages received via
email to a
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:46:07 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Clizbe escribe:
>> Just copy the keyring files.
>
>I store my private keyring and a public keyring containing only my
>public key on a pendrive, then in your gpg.conf:
>
>keyring /path/to/pendrive/pubring
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:33:58 -0500, John Clizbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Bo Berglund wrote:
>> We are new to GPG and we have used gpg4win 1.0.5 to install the
>> programs on Windows XP Pro PC:s. Some years ago we used PGP 7, but now
>> it turns out that we cannot get it to work on our XP-Pro PC
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