Re: OpenPGP and usability

2007-08-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Steven E. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, the X prefix is not anymore required for user defined headers. > > Was there some change in this prescription? If so, from where? I hadn't > heard about "X-" falling from use. In RFC 822 there was

Re: CoreLabs Detects Flaw In GnuPG - any comments ?

2007-08-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Eric Robinson: > CoreLabs Detects Flaw In GnuPG > By CXOtoday Staff > Mumbai, Mar 9, 2007 Have you seen the publication date? This has already been addressed by new software releases. -- Florian Weimer<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kri

Re: OpenPGP and usability

2007-08-10 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:51:15AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > In this regard Thunderbird is no better than Outlook! At least Thunderbird openly invites plugins and Enigmail is a good one. A. -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: 0x46399138 od zwracania uwagi na detale są lekarze, adwokaci, programiśc

RE: CoreLabs Detects Flaw In GnuPG - any comments ?

2007-08-10 Thread Eric Robinson
Thanks Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Shaw Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 12:08 PM To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: CoreLabs Detects Flaw In GnuPG - any comments ? On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:42:07AM -0500, Eric Rob

Re: CoreLabs Detects Flaw In GnuPG - any comments ?

2007-08-10 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:42:07AM -0500, Eric Robinson wrote: > CoreLabs Detects Flaw In GnuPG > By CXOtoday Staff > Mumbai, Mar 9, 2007 > > > Core Security Technologies has issued an advisory disclosing a flaw in > the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG). It is an OpenPGP- compliant > cryptogra

CoreLabs Detects Flaw In GnuPG - any comments ?

2007-08-10 Thread Eric Robinson
CoreLabs Detects Flaw In GnuPG By CXOtoday Staff Mumbai, Mar 9, 2007 Core Security Technologies has issued an advisory disclosing a flaw in the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG). It is an OpenPGP- compliant cryptographic software system and is a part of the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) GNU

Re: OpenPGP and usability

2007-08-10 Thread Steven E. Harris
Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, the X prefix is not anymore required for user defined headers. Was there some change in this prescription? If so, from where? I hadn't heard about "X-" falling from use. -- Steven E. Harris ___ Gnupg-u

Re: key sizes: maximum size and shrinking

2007-08-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 22:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I did some tests (dirty notes attached) and it looks like the whole > packet is about 5KiB (which is pretty much): > >4096-bit dsa-elgamal public key, binary: 1680 Bytes Why at all are you using such insane large key sizes? What is your th

Re: Partial file download issue - GPG

2007-08-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > We think it might be the file size. These are over 4MB. > Now we've started with one record, that worked, and we are increasing > the file size gradually, up to 1.9MB, and success so far. > Is there a file size limit on GPG? No. Depending

Re: OpenPGP and usability

2007-08-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 09:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > X-Gpgol-content-type: application/pgp-encrypted Well, the X prefix is not anymore required for user defined headers. But that is a detail. Shalom-Salam, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gn

key sizes: maximum size and shrinking

2007-08-10 Thread Nico Schottelius
Hello guys! We are trying to write a chat protocol, which uses gpg (gpgme especially) for encryption / signing. As it is an chat protocol, we try to keep latency down. As far as I can see the biggest packets we'll have are those containing the key exchange (as others are only messages, transport