Re: walkthrough

2007-02-21 Thread John Clizbe
PaulH wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed gpg4win-1.0.8. I'm new to this and not sure what I'm > doing exactly and haven't the time to teach myself. I have looked for > tutorials etc but can only find using gpg from the command line. All I > simply need to do is set up a private key and be a

Re: Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

2007-02-21 Thread NikNot
On 2/20/07, Janusz A. Urbanowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * without having recipient pubkey it is impossible to determine the recipient > of the message (assuming the subkey ID is not widely known) ... If the system was designed for the real world, the encrypted message would, by default, consi

new (2007-02-18) keyanalyze results (+sigcheck)

2007-02-21 Thread Jason Harris
New keyanalyze results are available at: http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/ka/2007-02-18/ Signatures are now being checked using keyanalyze+sigcheck: http://dtype.org/~aaronl/ Earlier reports are also available, for comparison: http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/ka/ Even earlier month

Re: Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

2007-02-21 Thread vedaal
Janusz A. Urbanowicz alex at bofh.net.pl wrote on Tue Feb 20 15:24:40 CET 2007 : >* it is possible to hide recipient's completely ID by using -- throw-keyid well, not 'completely' running gpg-list-packets or pgpdump on the encrypted message, lists the key-type (dh or rsa), key size, and symmetr

re: Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

2007-02-21 Thread vedaal
vedaal at hush.com vedaal at hush.com Tue Feb 20 18:16:52 CET 2007 wrote: > running gpg-list-packets or pgpdump on the encrypted message, lists the key-type (dh or rsa), key size, and symmetric algorithm used sorry, my mistake ;-(( pgpdump doesn't list which symmetric algo, only lists that an

Re: [Macgpg-users] GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-21 Thread Charly Avital
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Tested successfully on PPC (Powerbook 15" G4 1.33GHz), and Intel Core 2 Duo (MacBook 2 13" 2GHz), both running MacOS X 10.4.8. Thank you Ben. Charly Benjamin Donnachie wrote the following on 2/20/07 4:22 PM: > Benjamin Donnachie wrote: >> I

Use same key for S/MIME and OpenPGP

2007-02-21 Thread Raphaƫl Poss
Hi all, I'm just curious: since a RSA public key is made mainly of just two numbers, is it not possible (theoretically) to create both a valid PGP key and X509 certificate using the same key information, and use it with both protocols? Also, is it not (theoretically) possible to convert X

walkthrough

2007-02-21 Thread PaulH
Hi, I have just installed gpg4win-1.0.8. I'm new to this and not sure what I'm doing exactly and haven't the time to teach myself. I have looked for tutorials etc but can only find using gpg from the command line. All I simply need to do is set up a private key and be able to send encrypted em

Re: [Macgpg-users] GnuPG v2.0.2 MAC OS install - TESTING NEEDED!

2007-02-21 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > I have a test version of a GnuPG v2.0.2 Mac OS Tiger install available Patch for TEST2 available at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.2-TEST2-PATCH1.zip and sig at http://www.py-soft.co.uk/~benjamin/download/mac-gpg/mac-gnupg-2.0.2-TEST2-

Re: Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

2007-02-21 Thread Sven Radde
NikNot schrieb: > Unfortunately, the whole GPG, with WebOfTrust construct, makes the > assumption that there is no need whatsoever to protect the identity of > the secret key holder You have, however, the possibility of using pseudonyms as UID. Only the signers of your key would have to know about

Re: Secret key holder identity (was: Local file encryption)

2007-02-21 Thread NikNot
On 2/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pgpdump doesn't list which symmetric algo, > only lists that an mdc was or wasn't used The attacker performing large-scale traffic uses his own software that is - so it must be presumed - capable of distilling all (to him) usefull informat