Re: Questions about generating keys

2007-08-23 Thread Steven E. Harris
"Oskar L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yahoo! has a nice free service called AddressGuard. [...] Spamgourmet¹ has offered this and more since October 2000. Footnotes: ¹ http://www.spamgourmet.com/ -- Steven E. Harris ___ Gnupg-users mailing li

Re: Questions about generating keys

2007-08-23 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:40:02PM +0300, Oskar L. wrote: > Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > In the battle between armor and warhead, _always_ bet on the warhead. > > > > Playing defensively and trying to make an email address invisible is > > going to be an exercise in frustration. They always get see

Re: Using an old .gnupg directory

2007-08-23 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:22:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I recently reinstalled cygwin from scratch on my Windows machine, after > copying > the .gnupg directory and its contents to an USB key. Now, I would like to > decrypt files encrypted with the private key in that .gnu

Using an old .gnupg directory

2007-08-23 Thread phiroc
Hello, I recently reinstalled cygwin from scratch on my Windows machine, after copying the .gnupg directory and its contents to an USB key. Now, I would like to decrypt files encrypted with the private key in that .gnupg directory, in my new cygwin installation. Obviously, I should copy the .gnupg

Using an old .gnupg directory

2007-08-23 Thread phiroc
Hello, I recently reinstalled cygwin from scratch on my Windows machine, after copying the .gnupg directory and its contents to an USB key. Now, I would like to decrypt files encrypted with the private key in that .gnupg directory, in my new cygwin installation. Obviously, I should copy the .gnu

Re: Questions about generating keys

2007-08-23 Thread Snoken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 04:11 2007-08-23, Oskar L. wrote: - --snip-- >Robert J. Hansen wrote (regarding "DSA2" keys): >> The latest versions of PGP support them. > >That's good news. Can it also create them? But there are probably still >many using older versions. I k

Re: Questions about generating keys

2007-08-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Oskar L. wrote: > But if you don't need a public address, and only have security conscious > friends, then I would think you have a good change of staying of the > spammers lists. This is not my experience. I've received spam addressed to my amateur radio call sign (KC0SJE) at a domain that's not

Re: Questions about generating keys

2007-08-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Sven Radde wrote: > I am paranoid, too. Could someone therefore please explain to me what a > hash firewall actually is (possibly off-list)? In an RSA signature, data about what algorithm was used in a signature is, itself, part of the signed data. You can't lie about a signature algorithm withou

Re: Questions about generating keys

2007-08-23 Thread Oskar L.
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > In the battle between armor and warhead, _always_ bet on the warhead. > > Playing defensively and trying to make an email address invisible is > going to be an exercise in frustration. They always get seen. They > always get spammed. Play defensively and you lose. Well

Re: Questions about generating keys

2007-08-23 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:11:35AM +0300, Oskar L. wrote: > Ok, so RSA isn't always significantly faster, as I thought it was. I had > read somewhere that it was, (probably on this list) and my own testing > with my 4GB backup files showed RSA to be notably faster. Make sure you're comparing appl