RE: Sending Public Key

2007-02-13 Thread jason heddings
Thanks for all the help! We are going to look into OpenPGP and OpenSSL (since we may need it for our web server anyway). --jah -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Shaw Sent: Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 09:43 To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org S

Re: storing password lists in mails to myself on IMAP?

2007-02-13 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
If you happen to be using Mac OS X, you can store encrypted bits of information in the Keychain. And if you have a .mac account, your keychain data can be automatically synchronized across systems. -Joe On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Jim Hendrick wrote: > What you are doing works. But take a

Re: storing password lists in mails to myself on IMAP?

2007-02-13 Thread Randy Burns
--- Nomen Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use thunderbird on my laptop and desktop with an IMAP server, and > I've been mailing myself encrypted mails with website passwords so I > have access to them on both computers. > > This is just as secure as encrypting a file and copying it onto bo

RE: storing password lists in mails to myself on IMAP?

2007-02-13 Thread Jim Hendrick
What you are doing works. But take a look at password safe (Bruce Schneier & Counterpane labs). Also Password Gorilla (compatible w/ password safe) If you are truly paranoid, you could encrypt and email the safe back and forth w/ gpg, or carry it on a USB stick. > -Original Message- > F

Re: storing password lists in mails to myself on IMAP?

2007-02-13 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:30:04PM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: > I use thunderbird on my laptop and desktop with an IMAP server, and > I've been mailing myself encrypted mails with website passwords so I > have access to them on both computers. > > This is just as secure as encrypting a file and co

Re: Compiling GnuPG 2.0.1 on MacOS X

2007-02-13 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > How embarrassing... my mistake - I was still using the old patched version! Ah-ha! That's better! As a quick test I threw together the following helper application: /* ** Mac OS fails to process bundle information correctly ** for pinentry-mac. ** ** This quick hack

storing password lists in mails to myself on IMAP?

2007-02-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
I use thunderbird on my laptop and desktop with an IMAP server, and I've been mailing myself encrypted mails with website passwords so I have access to them on both computers. This is just as secure as encrypting a file and copying it onto both computers without using e-mail as a medium, right? O

Re: Sending Public Key

2007-02-13 Thread David Shaw
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:53:38PM -0700, jason heddings wrote: > Thanks for the reply (and keeping me from making a big mistake)... > > So, for doing basic data encryption / transmission, what's the right way to > go? We just need to do public key encryption, send the data (via email or > postal

Re: Sending Public Key

2007-02-13 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:53:38PM -0700, jason heddings wrote: > Thanks for the reply (and keeping me from making a big mistake)... > > So, for doing basic data encryption / transmission, what's the right way to > go? We just need to do public key encryption, send the data (via email or > postal